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