[nmglug] SATA or not?

[Eric Krieger]

The best way to be absolutely sure is to power down the system and
open it up...

If the hard drive has a connector cable that looks like...

http://gopaultech.com/files/2009/03/ide-ribbon-cable.jpg

It's IDE.

But if the cable looks like...

http://www.cooldrives.com/lib/cooldrives/ultraflex-sata-cable-1.jpg

It's SATA.

Thanks,

- Eric




On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:25 PM, BrianO'Keefe <okeefe at cybermesa.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My brother wants to replace his failing hd. We've queried for the type of
> drive so that he can order a compatible replacement and this is the last
> result:
>
> /usr/bin/lspci | grep SATA
>
> 00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID
> Controller (rev 80)
>
> Also this:
>
> sudo hdparm -I /dev/sda
>
> /dev/sda:
>
> ATA device, with non-removable media
>
>
>
> So is this a SATA drive for sure? The IDE interface confuses me.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
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