This seems trivial but neither
Information about SATA, IDE (PATA) controllers, lshw nor gnome-disk-utility
can tell me if the SATA ports on my mainboard are SATA I, II or even III.
Output of sudo lshw -html > hardwareprofile.html is
http://pastebin.com/mBxEEbEL
I want to buy a new hard drive.
So the 82801JI (ICH10 Family) Intel handbook states:
The ICH10 has two integrated SATA host controllers that support independent DMA
operation on up to six ports and supports data transfer rates of up to 3.0 GB/s
(300 MB/s). The SATA controller contains two modes of operation – a legacy mode
using I/O space, and an AHCI mode using memory space. Software that uses legacy
mode will not have AHCI capabilities.
The ICH10 supports the Serial ATA Specification, Revision 1.0a. The ICH10 also
supports several optional sections of the Serial ATA II: Extensions to Serial ATA 1.0
Specification, Revision 1.0 (AHCI support is required for some elements).
3.0 GB/s is SATA II; so I am fairly confident this chipset supports SATA II.
