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Introduction

AROS supports hard disks and optical drives attached to several interfaces:

• IDE (also known as ATA or PATA)
• SATA (in IDE compatibility mode)
• USB

IDE Desktop Hard Disks

Brand	Model	Works	Tested Distribution
Fujitsu	M1624TAU	Yes	Icaros Desktop 1.5.2
IBM	DHEA-38451	Yes	Icaros Desktop 1.5.2
Samsung	SP40A2H	Yes	Icaros Desktop 1.5.2
Seagate	ST3160215ACE	Yes	Icaros Desktop 1.5.2
Seagate	ST32122A	Maybe	Icaros Desktop 1.5.2
Western Digital	WD102AA	Yes	Icaros Desktop 1.5.2
Western Digital	WD200	Maybe	Icaros Desktop 1.5.2

SATA Desktop Hard Disks

Brand	Model	Works	Tested Distribution
Kingston	SV300S3505AG	Yes	Nightly Build 2014-09-18
Seagate	ST3160812AS	Yes	Icaros Desktop 1.5.2
Seagate Barracuda LP Green 5400rpm	ST1000DL002 1TB
Western Digital 2010	WD20EARS Green 2TB 5400rpm 64mb cache

IDE Laptop Hard Disks

Brand	Model	Works	Tested Distribution
Fujitsu	MHV2040AH	Yes	Icaros Desktop 1.4
HGST Hitachi Travelstar
Samsung
Seagate
Toshiba	MK2011GAP	Yes	Icaros Desktop 1.5.2

SATA Laptop Hard Disks

9.5mm

Brand	Model	Works	Tested Distribution
Fujitsu	MHW2120B	Yes	Icaros Desktop 1.4
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies HGST bought by WD mid 2012
Samsung
Samsung bought by Seagate late 2011
Samsung Spinpoint with Seagate HD REV A (Jan 2014)	ST1000LM024		, Advanced Format (AF)
Seagate
Seagate
Toshiba	MKxx59GSXP, eg Toshiba MK6459GSXP 640GB 2011	Yes	Icaros 2.2 with uses Advanced Format (AF) in 4,096 bytes per sector. Compatibility with legacy, 512 bytes through AF emulation techniques, called 512e
Toshiba (2013 to 2015)	MQ01ABD100
WESTERN DIGITAL 1TB 2.5" SATA DRIVE 5400 rpm, 8MB cache	WD10JPVX-80JC3T0 (OCT 2014)		, uses Advanced Format (AF)

7mm

Brand	Model	Works	Tested Distribution
Fujitsu
HGST Hitachi			avoid if it does not have the DCM code
Seagate Momentus Thin 500Gb 2014	ST500LT012
Seagate (2017) 1TB 128MB cache	ST1000LM035
SEAGATE ST1000LM048 Baracuda Compute 1TB
Toshiba MQ04ABF100 1TB 5400 RPM
TOSHIBA MQ01ACF050 500GB 7200rpm
WDC Western Digital Blue 1TB SATA 2.5" Hard Drive 5400 rpm, 8MB cache	WD10JPVX-08JC3T6 (Jun 2017)
Western Digital WD10JUCT 1TB (1000GB) 2019

IDE Desktop Optical Drives

Brand	Model	Reads	Writes	Tested Distribution
Compaq	CR-594-BCQ	Yes	N/A	Icaros Desktop 1.5.2
Compaq	CRD-8322B(CP1)	Yes	N/A	Icaros Desktop 1.5.2
Compaq	CRD-8484B(AM2A)	Yes	N/A	Icaros Desktop 1.5.2
Compaq	LTN-485	Yes	N/A	Icaros Desktop 1.5.2
Creative	CD220E	Yes	N/A	Icaros Desktop 1.5.2
Hitachi-LG	GDA-4120B	Yes	No	Icaros Desktop 1.5.2
LG	CRD-8400B	Yes	N/A	Icaros Desktop 1.5.2
Lite-On	LTN486S	Yes	N/A	Icaros Desktop 1.5.2
Mitsumi	CRMC-FX4830T	No	N/A	Icaros Desktop 1.5.2
NEC	CDR-1700B	Yes	N/A	Icaros Desktop 1.5.2
NEC	DV-5800A	No	N/A	Icaros Desktop 1.5.2
NEC	ND-2100A	Yes	No	Icaros Desktop 1.5.2
NEC	NR-7900A	Yes	No	Icaros Desktop 1.5.2
Philips	DVD8631	No	No	Icaros Desktop 2.2
Samsung	SC-148	Yes	N/A	Icaros Desktop 1.5.2
Samsung	SCR-2030	Yes	N/A	Icaros Desktop 1.5.2
Samsung	SM-348B	Yes	N/A	Icaros Desktop 1.5.2
Sony	CDU601	Yes	N/A	Icaros Desktop 1.5.2
Sony	CDU611-25	No	N/A	Icaros Desktop 1.5.2
Toshiba	SD-M1202	No	N/A	Icaros Desktop 1.5.2

SATA Desktop Optical Drives

Brand	Model	Reads	Writes	Tested Distribution

IDE Laptop Optical Drives

Brand	Model	Reads	Writes	Tested Distribution
Hitachi-LG	GCCT10N	Yes	FryingPan WRITE seems to have no problem with data sections (track 1) - combos with audio sections (track 2) white screens aros eventually	AspireOS Xenon with 25th Jan 2014 self update kernel
Optiarc	AD-7540A	Yes	Not tested	Icaros Desktop 2.2
Philips	SDR089	Yes	Not tested	Icaros Desktop 1.4
Sony	DW-Q58A	Yes	Not tested	Icaros Desktop 2.2
TSSTcorp	TS-L462C	Yes	Not tested	Icaros Desktop 2.2
TSSTcorp	TS-L632H	Yes	Not tested	Icaros Desktop 1.4

SATA Laptop Optical Drives

Brand	Model	Reads	Writes	Tested Distribution