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color=#0000ff size=2>I don't know what your reply means.....</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=671263615-19032008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Here is what it says to do:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=671263615-19032008>...."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."....<BR></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>Do you know how to get into the bios?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>Can you change it as described above? (from IDE to
RAID)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>Dennis</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> centos-bounces@centos.org
[mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Yu-Hui
Jin<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:52 PM<BR><B>To:</B> CentOS
mailing list<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [CentOS] Intel SATA controller (cmiiw) not
recognized byCentos5.1 installation?<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN>Here ya
go....</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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minutes....</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>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. <BR><BR>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.)<BR><BR>It seems installing AHCI is the only way to go to
me....<BR><BR><BR>-Hui<BR><BR><BR><BR> </DIV>
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<DIV class=Wj3C7c><BR>-Hui<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Yu-Hui Jin <<A
href="mailto:yuhui.jin@gmail.com" target=_blank>yuhui.jin@gmail.com</A>>
wrote:<BR>
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Jason,<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>I also tried to download and install the
AHCI driver following this article: <BR><A
href="http://www.bleedinedge.com/forum/showthread.php?t=30865"
target=_blank>http://www.bleedinedge.com/forum/showthread.php?t=30865</A><BR><BR>But
the installation failed; it said The computer does not meet the minimum
requirements for installing this software. <BR><BR>It seemed that no trick
has worked yet... any new suggestion or advice?
<BR><BR><BR>Thanks,<BR><BR>-Hui
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Jason <<A
href="mailto:jason@jasonandjessi.com"
target=_blank>jason@jasonandjessi.com</A>> wrote:<BR>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">boot
with<BR><BR>linux all-generic-ide<BR><BR>or try to change your bios sata
emulation to ahci<BR>
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<DIV><BR>Yu-Hui Jin wrote:<BR>> Hi, there,<BR>><BR>> I tried to
install Centos 5.1 on a Dell Inspiron 530 box I just bought,<BR>> but
failed due to invalid drive. The installation did not recognize<BR>>
either the DVD nor the hard disk. Joseph from the community said it
is<BR>> likely that Centos can't recognize the controller -- Intel
SATA<BR>> controller (cmiiw).<BR>><BR>> Did anyone solve this
problem before? How did you do it?<BR>><BR>> Here's the
related configuration for my box:<BR>> Inspiron 530 Intel Core2
processor Q6600 (2.40Ghz 1066FSB) w/Quad Core<BR>> Technology and 8MB
cache<BR>> SATA 0: Samsung HD501LJ (500GB Serial ATA II
Hard Drive(7200RPM))<BR>> SATA 1: PDBS DVD +/- RW DH-16W1S (16X
DVD+/-RW Drive)<BR>><BR>><BR>> Many
thanks!<BR>><BR>><BR>> regards,<BR>>
-Hui<BR>><BR>><BR></DIV></DIV>>
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