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

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.

- KB
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