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@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@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.