SATA
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: the common connection for hard disks and solid state drives inside desktop and laptop computers.
In more detail
Linux reaches SATA disks through the SCSI disk layer, so they appear as /dev/sda, /dev/sdb and so on. Most SATA controllers run in AHCI mode.
Related terms
- SCSI — Small Computer System Interface: a family of standards for attaching and commanding disks, whose Linux disk layer also drives SATA and USB disks.
- AHCI — Advanced Host Controller Interface: the standard way a SATA controller talks to the operating system, handled by the Linux ahci driver.
Taught in
- Hardware: What The Kernel Sees, What It Loads — LPIC-1 Linux Administrator (101-500 and 102-500) Exam Prep