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From: david on 28 Jun 2010 05:37
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 06:30:52 -0700, Ant rearranged some electrons to say:

> On 6/6/2010 3:37 PM PT, Kenneth Scharf typed:
>
>> In my case I'm using SATA hard disks and IDE DVD/CD rom dirves.
>> Strangely enough, the system finds the SATA hard disks as /dev/sda and
>> /dev/sdb, while the optical drives show up as /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd
>> even though they are IDE drives 0 and 1. I thought that SATA was
>> implemented AS SCSI in the kernel and the change from /dev/hdn to
>> /dev/sdn was a result of SATA not the way IDE was handled. I'm not sure
>> how the BIOS numbers the drives (IE: IDE or SATA first).
>
> How does one tell the differences from real SATA and non-SATA? I liked
> hd* and sd* to see the differences. :(

Ummm... look at the connectors?
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