Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3 - Page 54

BIOS Setup - 54 -
XHCI Hand-off &
Determines whether to enable XHCI Hand-off feature for an operating system without XHCI Hand-off
support. (Default: Enabled)
EHCI Hand-off &
Determines whether to enable EHCI Hand-off feature for an operating system without EHCI Hand-off
support. (Default: Disabled)
Port 60/64 Emulation &
Enables or disables emulation of I/O ports 64h and 60h. This should be enabled for full legacy support
for USB keyboards/mice in MS-DOS or in operating system that does not natively support USB devices.
(Default: Enabled)
USB Storage Devices &
Displays a list of connected USB mass storage devices. You can congure how each device is going to be
treated. For example, you can emulate a USB ash drive as a oppy disk drive. (Default: Auto)
Super IO Conguration `
This section provides information on the super I/O chip and allows you to congure the serial port.
Serial Port A &
Enables or disables the onboard serial port. (Default: Enabled)
GSATA Controller (Marvell 88SE9172 Chip, GSATA3 6 and GSATA3 7 connectors) &
Enables or disables RAID for the SATA controllers integrated in the Marvell 88SE9172 chip or congures
the SATA controllers to AHCI mode.
IDE Mode Disables RAID for the SATA controllers and congures the SATA controllers to IDE 
mode.
RAID Mode Enables RAID for the SATA controllers. 
AHCI Mode Congures the SATA controllers to AHCI mode. Advanced Host Controller Interface 
(AHCI) is an interface specication that allows the storage driver to enable advanced
Serial ATA features such as Native Command Queuing and hot plug. (Default)
Disabled Disables the SATA controllers. 
Marvell ATA Controller Conguration `