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How can I tell if my hard drive is PATA or SATA?

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I have an ATA hard disk in my laptop, running Fedora 11, kernel 2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.i586. I am looking to upgrade the disk in here (would love to get an SSD) but I forgot if it's a serial ATA or an old parallel ATA interface. There's not much use upgrading to an SSD if it's PATA... How can I tell if the disk is connected via a PATA or an SATA interface?
Asked by Josh (8728 rep)
Nov 10, 2010, 12:39 AM
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