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SATA Mode [AHCI Mode], Serial-ATA Controller 0 [Enhanced], Serial-ATA Controller 1 [Enhanced], S.M.A - windows 8 drivers
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3.5.4 SATA Configuration While entering Setup, the BIOS automatically detects the presence of SATA devices. The SATA Port items show Not Present if no SATA device is installed to the corresponding SATA port. EFI BIOS Utility - Advanced Mode Exit Main Back Ai Tweaker Advanced Advanced\ SATA Configuration > Monitor SATA Configuration SATA Mode AHCI Mode S.M.A.R.T. Status Check Enabled Boot Tool (1) IDE Mode. (2) AHCI Mode. (3) RAID Mode. SATA 6G 1 (Gray) Not Present SATA 6G 2 (Gray) Not Present SATA 3G 3 (Blue) ASUS CB-521 ATAPI SATA 3G 4 (Blue) Not Present SATA 3G 5 (Blue) Not Present SATA 3G 6 (Blue) Not Present SATA Mode [AHCI Mode] Allows you to set the SATA configuration. [Disabled] Disables the SATA function. [IDE Mode] Set to [IDE Mode] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as Parallel ATA physical storage devices. [AHCI Mode] Set to [AHCI Mode] when you want the SATA hard disk drives to use the AHCI (Advanced 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. [RAID Mode] Set to [RAID Mode] when you want to create a RAID configuration from the SATA hard disk drives. Serial-ATA Controller 0 [Enhanced] This item appear only when you set the previous item to [IDE Mode] [Disabled] [Enhanced] [Compatible] Disables the SATA function. Set to [Enhanced] to support two SATA 6.0 Gb/s and two SATA 3.0 Gb/s devices. Set to [Compatible] when using Windows 98/NT/2000/MS-DOS. Up to four SATA devices are supported under these operating systems. Serial-ATA Controller 1 [Enhanced] [Disabled] Disables the SATA function. [Enhanced] Set to [Enhanced] to support 2 SATA 3Gb/s devices. 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: [Enabled] [Disabled] Chapter 3 ASUS P8P67 PRO REV 3.1 3-17