[CentOS] Intel SATA controller (cmiiw) not recognized byCentos5.1 installation?

[Dennis McLeod]

I don't know what your reply means.....
 
Here is what it says to do:
 
 
...."I went back and looked at the BIOS again and noted a setting under
"Integrated Peripherals" for "SATA Mode" with the options of "IDE" or
"RAID". Since the ata_piix module seemed to be the one at issue I turned on
"RAID" to see what would happen and it switched to loading the achi module
instead of the ata_piix."....

 
Do you know how to get into the bios?
Can you change it as described above? (from IDE to RAID)
 
Dennis
 
 
 

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From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf
Of Yu-Hui Jin
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:52 PM
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Subject: Re: [CentOS] Intel SATA controller (cmiiw) not recognized
byCentos5.1 installation?




Here ya go....
5 minutes....
 
http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=sw_linux
<http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=sw_linux&
message.id=12701&query.id=104245#M12701>
&message.id=12701&query.id=104245#M12701



Thanks!   I tried network installation (using HTTP though), but the harddisk
can't be recognized during the partitioning step.  It seems to me this NFS
network described in this article would have the same problem. 

am I wrong in thinking this way? (i don't have a second linux to do the NFS
install so I'm suspicious about whether i should really give this a try.)

It seems installing AHCI is the only way to go to me....


-Hui



 


-Hui


On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Yu-Hui Jin <yuhui.jin at gmail.com> wrote:


Hi, Jason,

Thanks and I tried the first method to start with the parameter, but it was
extremely slow loading each screen. one time I got to the testing media page
and i chose Test. and it seemed stuck there for ever so I forced shutdown my
box.

I also tried to download and install the AHCI driver following this article:

http://www.bleedinedge.com/forum/showthread.php?t=30865

But the installation failed; it said The computer does not meet the minimum
requirements for installing this software. 

It seemed that no trick has worked yet... any new suggestion or advice? 


Thanks,

-Hui 

 



On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Jason <jason at jasonandjessi.com> wrote:


boot with

linux all-generic-ide

or try to change your bios sata emulation to ahci


Yu-Hui Jin wrote:
> Hi, there,
>
> I tried to install Centos 5.1 on a Dell Inspiron 530 box I just bought,
> but failed due to invalid drive. The installation did not recognize
> either the DVD nor the hard disk.  Joseph from the community said it is
> likely that Centos can't recognize the controller -- Intel SATA
> controller (cmiiw).
>
> Did anyone solve this problem before?  How did you do it?
>
> Here's the related configuration for my box:
> Inspiron 530 Intel Core2 processor Q6600 (2.40Ghz 1066FSB) w/Quad Core
> Technology and 8MB cache
> SATA 0: Samsung HD501LJ    (500GB Serial ATA II Hard Drive(7200RPM))
> SATA 1: PDBS DVD +/- RW DH-16W1S   (16X DVD+/-RW Drive)
>
>
> Many thanks!
>
>
> regards,
> -Hui
>
>

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