[Gllug] repeat soft noise from hard drive

[Alain Williams]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 11:40:17PM +0000, Diana Scott wrote:
> 
> Thank you for your information.
> 
> I am going to replace the hard drive and the specification is 2.5’’, UltraDMA 100, S.M.A.R.T 9.5mmH . When I looked up in maplin and it has SATA or ATA. Which one do you think my drive is ?

Open the box and have a look.

If you have a wide ribbon cable going to the disk then it is ATA.
If you have a small (probably red) cable then it is SATA.

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