Asus M4A89GTD PRO, User Manual

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ASUS M4A89GTD PRO Series 3-13
Chapter 3
3.4.2 Storage Configuration
The Storage Configuration menu allows you to configure your storage devices. Select an item
then press <Enter> to display the submenu.
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].
OnChip SATA Type [Native IDE]
Allows you to set the SATA configuration.
[Native IDE]
Set to [Native 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
(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 [Native IDE]
Setting this item to [Native 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 [Native IDE] mode.
BIOS SETUP UTILITY
Main
Storage Configuration
OnChip SATA Channel [Enabled]
OnChip SATA Type [Native IDE]
SATA Port5 - Port6 [Native IDE]