Finding out about devices

[Vincent Trouilliez]

On Thu, 7 May 2009 09:38:47 -0500
Lynn Ziegler <yadaoser at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have an old (3 years old) machine I use for a file server. Unfortunately,
> it is also old enough that it has a small amount of disk space. I would like
> to increase that disk space by adding another internal hard drive. The
> problem is that I don't know whether it is able to support serial ATA (which
> most of the hard drives sold now seem to be).
> 
> How can I find out what my hard disk controller can support? In windows it
> is easy using the device manager but I purposely eradicated windows from
> this machine.

Very easy ! Just open the computer case and see if the motherboard has
(or not) SATA connectors ! That's the only way to know for sure...
That said, if the machine is only 3 year old, it's likely to
have SATA connectors, unless it is a very low end/feature-restricted
motherboard.

--
Vince