[CentOS] Compatible SATA controller needed

Sun Mar 27 21:54:26 UTC 2022
Joshua Kramer <joskra42.list at gmail.com>

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
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