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 at earthlink.net> wrote: > > bourbon can be good... xmas cooking!! > although.. rum cakes aren't bad either... > > > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org]On > Behalf Of Scott Silva > Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 7:52 AM > To: centos at 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. > > -- > MailScanner is like deodorant... > You hope everybody uses it, and > you notice quickly if they don't!!!! > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Regards, -Hui -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080319/b1b37957/attachment-0005.html>