I've gone through the BIOS and tried all the combinations that were available but still no joy. I used ELRepo's method of determining the card type, and the result was none yielded a positive result. After trying all combinations my only course of action is to fins a card that is compatible and ignore the controllers that I currently have. Thanks On 3/27/22 16:08, Robert Heller wrote: > At Sun, 27 Mar 2022 12:23:21 -0700 CentOS mailing list<centos at centos.org> wrote: > >> On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 11:55 AM Pete Geenhuizen<pgeenhuizen at gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I'm trying to install Centos 8 on an older PC but it fails because the >>> SATA controller isn't supported. >>> Anyone have a source for a PCI/ePCI controller card that is compatible >>> with Centos 8? >>> Thanks >>> Pete >>> >> Your controller might be supported by one of the ELRepo's kmod packages. >> This can be checked if you provide the device ID pairing [xxxx:yyyy] as >> reported by 'lspci -nn'. > Also: what BIOS mode is the SATA controller operating in? The SATA firmware in > some PCs implement various "weird" modes, including "RAID" (no, not really > hardware RAID, just some kind of half BIOS half MS-Windows driver software > RAID hack), Make sure the SATA controller is in AHCI mode and not in some > other mode. If it is in AHCI mode, it might just work out-of-the-box. > >> Akemi >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> >> -- Unencumbered by the thought process. -- Click and Clack the Tappet brothers