[CentOS] Intel SATA controller (cmiiw) not recognized by Centos5.1 installation?

Yu-Hui Jin yuhui.jin at gmail.com
Wed Mar 19 05:52:30 UTC 2008


On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 4:35 PM, bruce <bedouglas at 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 at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at 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 at 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 at 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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Regards,

-Hui
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