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Old April 15th 06, 02:09 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.x86-64
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Hi,

How can you see what kind of harddisk you have (IDE,SCSI,SATA,SATA II?
Different conections?


Thx

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Old April 15th 06, 03:46 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.x86-64
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HDI wrote:
Hi,

How can you see what kind of harddisk you have (IDE,SCSI,SATA,SATA II?
Different conections?


Thx

without opening the case...
just watch the bios messages
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Old April 15th 06, 11:58 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.x86-64
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On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 06:09:48 -0700, HDI wrote:

Hi,

How can you see what kind of harddisk you have (IDE,SCSI,SATA,SATA II?
Different conections?


Thx


do a df, ide drives are mounted as /dev/hdx, SATA drives as /dev/sdx.

df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdc5 7936256 6312288 1214316 84% /
/dev/hdc1 8064272 4835464 2819156 64% /fc3_32
/dev/hdc3 8064304 7062808 591840 93% /fc3_64
/dev/sda3 183445652 76720532 97406620 45% /home
/dev/sda2 49116364 4846844 44269520 10% /local

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Old April 18th 06, 10:56 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.x86-64
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Is there a differende between an IDE HDD and an ATA HDD

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Old April 18th 06, 11:23 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.x86-64
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HDI wrote:

Is there a differende between an IDE HDD and an ATA HDD


No, both mean the same thing. ATA is the official name, but IDE is more
commonly used.
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Old April 18th 06, 08:12 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.x86-64
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"HDI" wrote...
SCSI is for servers?


....and high-end workstations.


SATA and SATA II is an advanced technology?


SATA is relatively common now for consumer use; SATA II appears to be a superset
of the SATA150 technology.



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Old April 19th 06, 07:55 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.x86-64
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Ok, thanks all.

 




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