Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone could help me install Haiku on an old PC that I have. This PC is a Pentium III 700 with a 440BX chipset, so the IDE controller supports ATA-33 only, which is painfully slow to run Haiku (believe me I’ve tried). I’ve tried to fix this by buying a Promise FastTrak 100 TX2 ATA/RAID controller which supports ATA-100, but when I try to install Haiku, the LiveCD boots fine but when I have to partition my disk via Drivesetup, my HD is nowhere to be found. I’ve thought that Haiku supported my controller and it does:
http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/src/add-ons/kernel/busses/ata/promise_tx2?id=7f33d2c1594b3021dcc12daf679c6758e486ceb3
So I’m absolutely clueless about this issue, maybe it doesn’t support the installation but it does support access to a drive attached to the controller, but when I boot Haiku it only mounts its own partition (the CD one), not the others that I have on the HD (Linux installation).
Thanks in advance!
promise_tx2 add-on is not included in HaikuImage
http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/build/jam/HaikuImage#n228
It was removed from the build in http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/commit/?id=hrev30700
and as commit message says it doesn’t compile now http://pastebin.com/uY8yhjGp
You can try filing a ticket at http://dev.haiku-os.org
Thanks Diver for all your help!
As per your suggestion I’ve filed a bug: https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/9087
I’ll cross my fingers hoping it gets fixed (but I know there are things much more important)