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
5 thoughts on - Compatible SATA Controller Needed
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’.
Akemi
At Sun, 27 Mar 2022 12:23:21 -0700 CentOS mailing list wrote:
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.
I’ve already checked ELRepo for a possible driver and have tried some that looked promising but no success. Thanks
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
—
Unencumbered by the thought process.
— Click and Clack the Tappet brothers
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.
5 thoughts on - Compatible SATA Controller Needed
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’.
Akemi
At Sun, 27 Mar 2022 12:23:21 -0700 CentOS mailing list wrote:
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.
I’ve already checked ELRepo for a possible driver and have tried some that looked promising but no success. Thanks
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
—
Unencumbered by the thought process.
— Click and Clack the Tappet brothers
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.