Haiku & SATA/SATA2

Kerdo · February 18, 2011, 12:13am

I noticed that its said Haiku cannot handle SATA or SATA2, and as I would like to have this on my PC, I’ve been seeking possible solutions:

Have both SATA & ATA in the custom build.
Have build use SATA or SATA2, but have ATA mobile-rack HDD with IDE adapter.
Been told some motherboards have this IDE emulation that would run Haiku on SATA.
Will any of these work? Pros and cons? Other options?

dupek · February 18, 2011, 1:05am

I have SATA and works fine, but I believe that my computer is set for IDE emulation.

tqh · February 18, 2011, 9:14am

Haiku supports SATA, some chipsets might have problems still. But on all my machines it works just fine. (Intel and ATI). I even run one with a OCZ Vertex 2 SSD and it works fine.

xonics · February 19, 2011, 12:28am

Just to add to the existing comments, I’m running Haiku on SATA II without any issues.

stellarpower · February 19, 2011, 1:59pm

IF your SATA is set to IDE emulation or AHCI mode, then it should definitely work. If not, it may work.