Hi, im trying to install centos 4.4 server cd on a P5VDC-MX using an 80GB sata drive. centos can't detect the sata drive is there a way to make this work? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070305/018da0e8/attachment.html>
On 05/03/07, Mark Quitoriano <markquitoriano at gmail.com> wrote:> im trying to install centos 4.4 server cd on a P5VDC-MX using an 80GB sata > drive. centos can't detect the sata drive is there a way to make this work?This guy appears to have installed CentOS but then had some trouble with NIC configuration, which implies it'll at least install, though it doesn't state whether he's using SATA or PATA. http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=4399 This post implies a BIOS update for the motherboard might help. http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/installation/68318-no-form-linux-sees-my-sata-hard-drive.html Will.
Mark Quitoriano wrote:> Hi, > > im trying to install centos 4.4 server cd on a P5VDC-MX using an 80GB > sata drive. centos can't detect the sata drive is there a way to make > this work?I have a machine with that board, while I could install and things "worked" the SATA interface was in safe mode where I was only getting <5 Mb/s on hdparm -Tt If you can wait until Centos 5 is out, it may have better chipset support, personally I hacked in a FC6 kernel to get it up and running. -Mike