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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