No S.M.A.R.T. support on X79A-GD65?

Hello,
I can not find any informations about enabling SMART on the X79A-GD65 mainboard. I can not use monitoring for SSD drive if I don't enable it.
Thanks

Quote from: Jack on 19-December-11, 19:15:56
Many "monitoring tools" are unable to access SMART data when the SATA controller is running in AHCI mode. This is not so much an UEFI/BIOS problem but a restriction of the given tool. Google "AHCI S.M.A.R.T." to find out what I am talking about.
Thanks. Can I switch from AHCI to IDE mode without any problems (Windows 7 installed)? Will this lead to some notable performance decrease?

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The X79A-GD65 standard or (8D) have ASMedia SATA III controllers, not Marvell. If they had Marvell, RAID would have been supported on those ports as well as Intel's.
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i7-3820 LGA2011
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