[CentOS] Centos 4.4 install on ASUS A8V-VM does not find SATAdrives

[Don Levey]

Sadly, this did not work.  I set the jumpers on the drives to SATA 1 (1.5GB)
but the installation routine did exactly the same thing as before (did not
automatically load the south bridge SATA controller, I selected via_sata
manually, then when it came time to partition I was told there were no
drives in the system).  I did notice in the initial messages that flash by
during the CD init that it said "unknown via southbridge".  The specs say
this is a VIA8251; I'm assuming that if I could get ahold of an install DVD
with the appropriate kernel module included that this would be easier?  I
didn't want to drop another $90 (especially for a new A8N-VM with
capabilities I don't need for a small server) but it's looking more and more
like I need to do it.
  -Don

-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org]On
Behalf Of Karanbir Singh
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 8:00 AM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 4.4 install on ASUS A8V-VM does not find
SATAdrives


Don Levey wrote:
>>> The BIOS does indeed recognise my two SATA hard drives, and I've got the
>>> BIOS set to "IDE" (which disables "hardware" RAID but not the SATA but
>> you need to set the drives to work at only sata-1 ( 1.5Gb/sec ) mode.

> Ah, OK - thanks!  I'll try that this afternoon.  I'm assuming I don't
> need to make a corresponding change on the motherboard itself?

no, it should just work fine, you dont even need to set the mobo to
emulate ide mode or use ahci, the via_sata drivers included in the
kernel work fine.