[WBEL-users] WB4 on Athlon64...

[khaqq]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:54:30 -0400
"Aaron J Weber" <aweber at comcast.net> wrote:

> I grabbed a HP Pavilion with this ASUS A8AE-LE mobo in it.  It came with a SATA drive that I basically want to re-partition and use for WB4.
> 
> Problem is, the SATA controller is apparently not found during the probing, and if I select ANY SATA driver in the "Add Devices" dialog, they all fail when the Disk Druid attempts to find something to partition for installation.
> 
> I'm frustrated as heck, because I've googled, etc., and can't find out what SATA chipset is in there in the first place...regardless, I've tried all the ones offered on the image, and none of them will work loading at that point.
> 
> Does anyone have any constructive advice for me???  Would really like to see this 64 bit box hum...

My advice would be to boot a recent Knoppix, and run "lspci -v"
to see what SATA controller you have.

khaqq