Finding out about devices

[Karl F. Larsen]

Lynn Ziegler 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.
>
>   
    If you check your BIOS you might see SATA drives. If you got a red 
thin cable along with your computer then it is certain it will support a 
SATA drive. If nothing looks like SATA you can still buy IDE hard drives 
:-)

Karl