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ATS Support [Disabled]
Allows to enable/disable VT-d Engine address translation services (ATS) support.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
Pass-through DMA [Enabled]
Allows to enable/disable VT-d Engine pass through DMA support.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
5.4.4
PCH SATA Configuration
Aptio Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 2011 American Megatrends, Inc.
Advanced
SATA Port1
SATA Port2
SATA Port3
SATA Port4
SATA Port5
SATA Port6
SATA Mode
Serial-ATA Controller 0
Serial-ATA Controller 1
S.M.A.R.T. Status Check
SATA Mode [IDE Mode]
Allows you to set the SATA configuration.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [IDE Mode] [AHCI Mode] [RAID Mode]
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Serial-ATA Controller 0 [Enhanced]
This item appears only when you set the SATA Mode item to [IDE Mode]. 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.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enhanced] [Compatible]
Serial-ATA Controller 1 [Enhanced]
This item appears only when you set the SATA Mode item to [IDE Mode]. Set
to [Enhanced] to support two SATA 3.0 Gb/s devices. Configuration options:
[Disabled] [Enhanced]
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Not Present
ASUS DWR ATAPI
WDC WD800JD(80.0GB)
Not Present
Not Present
Not Present
[IDE Mode]
[Enhanced]
[Enhanced]
[Enabled]
If you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as Parallel ATA physical
storage devices, keep the default setting [IDE Mode].
If you want the Serial ATA hard disk drives to use the Advanced Host
Controller Interface (AHCI), set this item to [AHCI Mode]. 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.
If you want to create RAID sets with LSI MegaRAID utility, or Intel
Storage Technology Enterprise from the Serial ATA hard disk drives, set this
item to [RAID Mode].
(1)IDE Mode. (2)AHCI Mode.
(3)RAID Mode.
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Chapter 5: BIOS setup
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