SATA or IDE

[gsl007]

I have a T60, part number 6459CTO. I'm not sure if I have an IDE drive or a SATA drive. I have been to the Lenovo site but the product information for this machine only shows HDD capacity and spindle speed. How can I tell which interface I have?

Thanks, Gary

[gsl007]

I took the drive out and it's a SATA HHD but PC doctor shows it as an IDE. Strange, why would it do that?

[bhtooefr]

Technically, SATA is a type of IDE. (For that matter, though, so is SCSI, and that isn't typically referred to as IDE.)

PATA is probably what you're thinking of.

Also, in the BIOS, are you running in AHCI or Compatibility mode? If you're running in Compatibility, I believe it'll appear as a PATA device.