User's Manual
2-20 Chapter 2: BIOS Information
SATA Port1 - Port4 [AHCI]
[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 (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] Set to [RAID] when you want to create a RAID conguration from the
SATA hard disk drives.
The following item appears only when you set SATA Port1 ‑ Port4 to [AHCI].
SATA ESP on PORT1 ~ 4 [Disabled]
Conguration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]
The following item appears only when you set SATA Port1 ‑ Port4 to [RAID].
Board SATA RAID ROM [Legacy ROM]
This item allows you to select Board SATA RAID ROM.
Conguration options: [Disabled] [Legacy ROM] [UEFI DRIVER]
SATA Port5 - Port6 [AHCI]
Allows you to set the SATA port 5~6 mode.
Conguration options: [AHCI] [IDE] [RAID]
• When the SATA Port1–Port 4 and the SATA Port5–Port 6 items are set to [AHCI],
the information of the SATA connectors 1–6 can be seen only under the OS
environment or during POST.
• The conguration options of SATA Port5 ‑ Port6 will vary according to the
conguration option of the SATA Port1 ‑ Port4.
The following item appears only when you set
SATA Port5 ‑ Port6 to [AHCI].
SATA ESP on PORT5 ~ 6 [Disabled]
Conguration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]
S.M.A.R.T. Status Check [Enabled]
[Disabled] Disables the S.M.A.R.T feature.
[Enabled] Enables the S.M.A.R.T feature.