We tried to get that board working for hours. The major problem was that even after we used a cheap SATA PCI controller to get it up and running, the onboard Ethernet port was unstable. I'd highly recommend putting this board on eBay and getting the Asus A8N-VM, which has the nVidia chipset that works. That's what we ended up doing. Don Levey wrote: > Yes, I know someone last week asked a similar question (Problem with ASUS > P5VD2-X X SATA II) but the only answer I saw on that thread was the > equivalent of "I've heard it's bad so I won't do it." Unfortunately, that > doesn't help me much. > > 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 > itself). The install routine for Centos, however, does not seem to > recognise that the drives are there (or even that the VIA bridge exists via > auto search); if I try to manually select it I'm told it found a VIA > VT86c100A Rhine-II PCI (via-rhine). Setting to AHCI does not seem to have > an effect. I was hoping to use software RAID, and so didn't want to enable > RAID on the motherboard. > > Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to either nudge the installation, > or configure the hardware, to find the SATA drives so I can configure RAID? > This is a NEW install on new drives, so it's not as if I've got an existing > configuration I'm trying to augment. > > Thanks in advance, > -Don > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >