bourbon can be good... xmas cooking!! although.. rum cakes aren't bad either... -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Scott Silva Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 7:52 AM To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Intel SATA controller (cmiiw) not recognized by Centos 5.1 installation? on 3-19-2008 8:34 AM bruce spake the following: > hey scott... > > are you sure about the installation of windows drivers, not affecting the installation of linux. aren't there a number of cases where in order to install hardware on linux, you 1st need the windows drivers? > > might it be possible that the article/advice the poster was following was with regards to obtaining drivers for the sata controller/drive to be used under linux?? > Anything is possible, but I actually did read the article, so that doesn't apply here. It was to get an AHCI driver for XP on a certain asus MB for speed reasons. I try to not talk out of my behind unless I happen to get into the bourbon first, but that is also not the case here. And needing to download a windows driver for some kind of emulation like ndiswrapper doesn't mean you need to install it in windows, or even have a copy of windows. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos