PCIe SATA controllers (and perhaps even PCI SATA controllers) are a dime a dozen on Amazon. I've purchased a few and they just worked with Linux. On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 4:34 PM Pete Geenhuizen <pgeenhuizen at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >