Guest Robert Posted July 22, 2007 Posted July 22, 2007 Can someone please tell me how I can conveniently determine whether my internal hard drive and my external hard drive are ATA or SCSI or some other dsignation? Thank you -- Robert
Guest R. McCarty Posted July 22, 2007 Posted July 22, 2007 Re: ATA or SCSI drive Conveniently ? perhaps with Device Manager, Disk Drives. Examine the Vendor/Model descriptor, such as ST33206... Then look up the specifications on the vendor's web site. Physically opening the case & checking cables is another option but isn't always practical if the PC is hard to access. You can also use a Hardware/Software inventory tool like Belarc Advisor to get technical information. http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html *You have to be careful, some SATA controllers are categorized in XP as SCSI but aren't since SCSI is a parallel technology and SATA is Serial format. "Robert" <Robert@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:DCBD8757-36BB-4A42-B305-642284B07C1D@microsoft.com... > Can someone please tell me how I can conveniently determine whether my > internal hard drive and my external hard drive are ATA or SCSI or some > other > dsignation? Thank you > -- > Robert
Guest Lil' Dave Posted July 23, 2007 Posted July 23, 2007 Re: ATA or SCSI drive With more detail, possibly with the external drive. Am not assuming anything. Dave "Robert" <Robert@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:DCBD8757-36BB-4A42-B305-642284B07C1D@microsoft.com... > Can someone please tell me how I can conveniently determine whether my > internal hard drive and my external hard drive are ATA or SCSI or some > other > dsignation? Thank you > -- > Robert
Guest Not Me Posted July 23, 2007 Posted July 23, 2007 Re: ATA or SCSI drive Sometimes you can tell by looking in Device Manager. Get the model number & look it up on the manufacturer's website. But you can also physically look at the drives. A SATA drive is connected to the board with a small cable and the connector is about 1" wide; a PATA/EIDE drive is connected by a cable with a connector more than twice as wide. Having a SCSI except in a server would be a little unusual, but they have several formats of cable, all over 1.5" wide. An external drive is most likely PATA/EIDE in a USB enclosure. "Robert" <Robert@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:DCBD8757-36BB-4A42-B305-642284B07C1D@microsoft.com... > Can someone please tell me how I can conveniently determine whether my > internal hard drive and my external hard drive are ATA or SCSI or some > other > dsignation? Thank you > -- > Robert
Guest Robert Posted July 23, 2007 Posted July 23, 2007 Re: ATA or SCSI drive R. McCarty; Lil' Dave; Not Me: I want to thank you for your response to my query. It was nice of you to help me. -- Robert "Not Me" wrote: > Sometimes you can tell by looking in Device Manager. > Get the model number & look it up on the manufacturer's website. > But you can also physically look at the drives. > A SATA drive is connected to the board with a small cable and the connector > is about 1" wide; a PATA/EIDE drive is connected by a cable with a connector > more than twice as wide. > Having a SCSI except in a server would be a little unusual, but they have > several formats of cable, all over 1.5" wide. > An external drive is most likely PATA/EIDE in a USB enclosure. > > "Robert" <Robert@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:DCBD8757-36BB-4A42-B305-642284B07C1D@microsoft.com... > > Can someone please tell me how I can conveniently determine whether my > > internal hard drive and my external hard drive are ATA or SCSI or some > > other > > dsignation? Thank you > > -- > > Robert > > >
Guest Bob I Posted July 23, 2007 Posted July 23, 2007 Re: ATA or SCSI drive ATA uses a 40 pin data connector, SCSI uses at least a 50 pin connector at minimum. Robert wrote: > Can someone please tell me how I can conveniently determine whether my > internal hard drive and my external hard drive are ATA or SCSI or some other > dsignation? Thank you
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