Owner manual

ASUS M5A88-M 3-13
Chapter 3
3.4.2 SATA Conguration
The SATA Conguration menu allows you to congure your storage devices. Select an item
then press <Enter> to display the submenu.
OnChip SATA Speed [Auto]
[Auto] Allows automatic selection of the SATA speed.
[SATA 3.0Gb/s] Set the SB850 SATA speed to [SATA 3.0Gb/s] to support SATA 3.0Gb/s
HDDs with max. speed at 3.0Gb/s.
[SATA 6.0Gb/s] Set the SB850 SATA speed to [SATA 6.0Gb/s] to support SATA 6.0Gb/s
HDDs with max. speed at 6.0Gb/s.
OnChip SATA Channel [Enabled]
[Enabled] Enables the onboard channel SATA port.
[Disabled] Disables the onboard channel SATA port.
The following two items appear only when you set the OnChip SATA Channel item to
[Enabled].
SATA Port1 - Port4 [IDE]
Allows you to set the SATA conguration.
[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 conguration from the SATA
hard disk drives.
[AHCI] Set to [AHCI] 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.
• When this item is set to [AHCI], the information of the SATA connectors 1~6 can be
seen only under the OS environment or during POST.
• For Windows
®
XP OS, you have to install the AHCI driver, so that you could use the
SATA connectors 1~6 in AHCI mode under the OS environment.
SATA Port5 - Port6 [IDE]
Setting this item to [IDE] instead of [RAID] or [AHCI] allows the system to recognize the
optical dirves connected to the SATA connectors 5 or 6 when installing OS.
If you use a SATA optical drive to run the OS installation disk, we strongly recommend that
you install the optical dirve to the SATA connectors 5/6 and set them to [IDE] mode.
M5A88-M BIOS Setup
Main
SATA Conguration
OnChip SATA Speed [Auto]
OnChip SATA Channel [Enabled]
SATA Port1 - Port4 [IDE]
SATA Port5 - Port6 [IDE]
Options
Disabled
Enabled
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