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@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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Anyone can help?

Many thanks!

-Hui

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Yu-Hui Jin yuhui.jin@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@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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-Hui

Here ya go.... 5 minutes....

http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=sw_linux&a...

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@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@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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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@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Yu-Hui Jin Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:52 PM To: CentOS mailing list 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@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@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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On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 4:35 PM, bruce bedouglas@earthlink.net wrote:

hi...

you might want to look at some of the past threads/sites for centos and optiplex 300/320 systems from dell...

Thank you! I will download the threads and grep for this info.

-Hui

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org]On Behalf Of Yu-Hui Jin Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:03 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Intel SATA controller (cmiiw) not recognized by Centos5.1 installation?

Anyone can help?

Many thanks!

-Hui

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Yu-Hui Jin yuhui.jin@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@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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I was told to try two methods: 1) linxu all-generic-ide 2) install ahci and config to use it in BIOS.

#1 is too slow; #2, I checked my BIOS, there's no ahci option. That's why i'm following the article which tells how to install it for XP and get it into BIOS.

thanks, -Hui

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Scott Silva ssilva@sgvwater.com wrote:

on 3-17-2008 11:21 PM Yu-Hui Jin spake the following:

...

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?

That article is for Windows XP. How does it relate to CentOS? Did you actually go into your bios and see if you could change the sata emulation to legacy or ahci?

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hey scott...

are you sure about the installation of windows drivers, not affecting the installation of linux. aren't there a number of cases where in order to install hardware on linux, you 1st need the windows drivers?

might it be possible that the article/advice the poster was following was with regards to obtaining drivers for the sata controller/drive to be used under linux??

peace

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org]On Behalf Of Scott Silva Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 6:55 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Re: Intel SATA controller (cmiiw) not recognized by Centos 5.1 installation?

on 3-18-2008 10:47 PM Yu-Hui Jin spake the following:

I was told to try two methods:

1. linxu all-generic-ide
2. install ahci and config to use it in BIOS.

#1 is too slow; #2, I checked my BIOS, there's no ahci option. That's why i'm following the article which tells how to install it for XP and get it into BIOS.

Installing a driver in XP will not get anything into your bios, and won't help you install Linux.

on 3-19-2008 8:34 AM bruce spake the following:

hey scott...

are you sure about the installation of windows drivers, not affecting

the installation of linux. aren't there a number of cases where in order to install hardware on linux, you 1st need the windows drivers?

might it be possible that the article/advice the poster was following was with

regards to obtaining drivers for the sata controller/drive to be used under linux??

Anything is possible, but I actually did read the article, so that doesn't apply here. It was to get an AHCI driver for XP on a certain asus MB for speed reasons. I try to not talk out of my behind unless I happen to get into the bourbon first, but that is also not the case here. And needing to download a windows driver for some kind of emulation like ndiswrapper doesn't mean you need to install it in windows, or even have a copy of windows.

Hi, guys,

I finally found I only need to choose the "RAID" option for SATA mode (the other one is "IDE"). I didn't know by choosing it, Centos is able to load the ahci driver. That solves the problem. It took ton of time for me to figuring out the solution is such easy. I should've tried this earlier.

Thank you all for helping on this. Centos seems to have a great community.

regards,

-Hui

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 9:24 AM, bruce bedouglas@earthlink.net wrote:

bourbon can be good... xmas cooking!! although.. rum cakes aren't bad either...

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org]On Behalf Of Scott Silva Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 7:52 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Re: Intel SATA controller (cmiiw) not recognized by Centos 5.1 installation?

on 3-19-2008 8:34 AM bruce spake the following:

...

hey scott...

are you sure about the installation of windows drivers, not affecting

the installation of linux. aren't there a number of cases where in order to install hardware on linux, you 1st need the windows drivers?

...

might it be possible that the article/advice the poster was following

was with regards to obtaining drivers for the sata controller/drive to be used under linux??

...

Anything is possible, but I actually did read the article, so that doesn't apply here. It was to get an AHCI driver for XP on a certain asus MB for speed reasons. I try to not talk out of my behind unless I happen to get into the bourbon first, but that is also not the case here. And needing to download a windows driver for some kind of emulation like ndiswrapper doesn't mean you need to install it in windows, or even have a copy of windows.

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