Eben King composed on 2026-05-13 10:33 (UTC-0400):
> Occasionally I get these errors in dmesg (below). How do I find out
> which drive is ata3?
...
> ata3.00
...
With lsscsi it seems ata3.00 would equate to [3:0:0:0]:
# inxi -S
System:
Host: fi965 Kernel: 5.10.0-42-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
Console: pty pts/1 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
# lsscsi
[0:0:0:0] disk ATA WDC WD5000AAKS-7 1C02 /dev/sda
[1:0:0:0] disk ATA GB0500C4413 HPG1 /dev/sdb
[3:0:0:0] disk ATA ST3500630AS E /dev/sdc
[6:0:0:0] disk Generic- SD/MMC 1.00 /dev/sdd
[6:0:0:1] disk Generic- Compact Flash 1.01 /dev/sde
[6:0:0:2] disk Generic- SM/xD-Picture 1.02 /dev/sdf
[6:0:0:3] disk Generic- MS/MS-Pro 1.03 /dev/sdg
#
# inxi -S
System:
Host: fi965 Kernel: 6.1.0-47-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
Console: pty pts/0 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
root@fi965:~# lsscsi
[0:0:0:0] disk ATA WDC WD5000AAKS-7 1C02 /dev/sda
[1:0:0:0] disk ATA GB0500C4413 HPG1 /dev/sdb
[3:0:0:0] disk ATA ST3500630AS E /dev/sdc
[6:0:0:0] disk Generic- SD/MMC 1.00 /dev/sdd
[6:0:0:1] disk Generic- Compact Flash 1.01 /dev/sde
[6:0:0:2] disk Generic- SM/xD-Picture 1.02 /dev/sdf
[6:0:0:3] disk Generic- MS/MS-Pro 1.03 /dev/sdg
#
# inxi -S
System:
Host: fi965 Kernel: 6.12.86+deb13-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
Console: pty pts/0 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)
# lsscsi
[0:0:0:0] disk ATA WDC WD5000AAKS-7 1C02 /dev/sda
[1:0:0:0] disk ATA GB0500C4413 HPG1 /dev/sdb
[3:0:0:0] disk ATA ST3500630AS E /dev/sdc
[6:0:0:0] disk Generic- SD/MMC 1.00 /dev/sdd
[6:0:0:1] disk Generic- Compact Flash 1.01 /dev/sde
[6:0:0:2] disk Generic- SM/xD-Picture 1.02 /dev/sdf
[6:0:0:3] disk Generic- MS/MS-Pro 1.03 /dev/sdg
#
Educated guess: your ata3.00 is plugged into sata port 3 out of 4 or 6, which
may
be labeled 2 out of 0-3 or 0-5.
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