37 AIMB-581 User Manual
Chapter 3 BIOS Operation
3.3.4 SATA Configuration
SATA Controllers
This item appear only when you set SATA mode to "IDE Mode".
[Disabled]
Disable SATA function.
SATA Mode
This can be configured as IDE or AHCI mode.
Disabled
Disable the SATA f nction.
IDE mode
Set to [IDE mode] when you want to use the serial ATA hard disk drives as Par-
allel ATA p ysical 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
dri r to enable advanced serial ATA features that increase storage perfor-
mance on random workloads by allowing the drive to internally optimize the
order of commands.