Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX GEN3 R2.0 SABERTOOTH 990FX/GEN3 R2.0 User's Manual - Page 91

SB SATA Configuration, SATA Port1 - Port 4 [AHCI], S.M.A.R.T. Status Check [Enabled] - driver

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SB SATA Configuration This item alows you to set the SATA configuration. OnChip SATA Channel [Enabled] Allows you to enable or disable the Serial ATA channel. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled] The following items appear only when you set the OnChip SATA Channel to [Enabled]. SATA Port1 - Port 4 [AHCI] Allows you to set the SATA configuration. [IDE] Set to [IDE] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as Parallel ATA physical storage devices. [RAID] Set to [RAID] when you want to create a RAID configuration from the SATA hard disk drives. [AHCI] Set to [AHCI] when you want the SATA hard disk drives to use the AHCI (Advabced Host Controller Interface). The AHCI allows the onboard storage driver to enable advanced Serial ATA features that increases storage performance on random workloads by allowing the drive to internally optimize the order of commands. SATA Port 5 - Port 6 [AHCI] Allows you to set the SATA configuration. [IDE] Set to [IDE] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as Parallel ATA physical storage devices. [AHCI] Set to [AHCI] when you want the SATA hard disk drives to use the AHCI (Advabced Host Controller Interface). The AHCI allows the onboard storage driver to enable advanced Serial ATA features that increases storage performance on random workloads by allowing the drive to internally optimize the order of commands. You can only set SATA Port5-Port6 to [IDE] if Port1-Port4 is set to [IDE]. S.M.A.R.T. Status Check [Enabled] S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a monitor system. When read/write of your hard disk errors occur, this feature allows the hard disk to report warning messages during the POST. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] SATA ESP on PORT1-6 [Disabled] Allows you to set SATA port on PORT1-6 to external SATA port. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] Chapter 3 ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX/GEN3 R2.0 3-21

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ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX/GEN3 R2.0
3-21
Chapter 3
SB SATA Configuration
This item alows you to set the SATA configuration.
OnChip SATA Channel [Enabled]
Allows you to enable or disable the Serial ATA channel.
Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]
The following items appear only when you set the OnChip SATA Channel to
[Enabled]
.
SATA Port1 - Port 4 [AHCI]
Allows you to set the SATA configuration.
[IDE]
Set to [IDE] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk
drives as Parallel ATA physical storage devices.
[RAID]
Set to [RAID] when you want to create a RAID configuration
from the SATA hard disk drives.
[AHCI]
Set to [AHCI] when you want the SATA hard disk drives to
use the AHCI (Advabced Host Controller Interface). The AHCI
allows the onboard storage driver to enable advanced Serial
ATA features that increases storage performance on random
workloads by allowing the drive to internally optimize the order
of commands.
SATA Port 5 - Port 6 [AHCI]
Allows you to set the SATA configuration.
[IDE]
Set to [IDE] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk
drives as Parallel ATA physical storage devices.
[AHCI]
Set to [AHCI] when you want the SATA hard disk drives to
use the AHCI (Advabced Host Controller Interface). The AHCI
allows the onboard storage driver to enable advanced Serial
ATA features that increases storage performance on random
workloads by allowing the drive to internally optimize the order
of commands.
You can only set SATA Port5-Port6 to
[IDE]
if Port1-Port4 is set to
[IDE]
.
S.M.A.R.T. Status Check [Enabled]
S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a
monitor system. When read/write of your hard disk errors occur, this feature
allows the hard disk to report warning messages during the POST.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
SATA ESP on PORT1-6 [Disabled]
Allows you to set SATA port on PORT1-6 to external SATA port.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]