Find out physical locations of HD without inspecting?

How do I use the Properties of HD to figure out the physical location
of the HD?

The primary and secondary channels from the motherboard are not hard
to figure out.

Such as:
Onboard Primary ATA Channel
Maxtor 6L060J3: Location 0 (Primary ATA Channel)
WDC WD600BB-75CAA0: Location 1 (Primary ATA Channel)

Onboard Secondary ATA Channel
_NEC DVD_RW ND-3520A: Location 0 (Secondary ATA Channel)
ATAPI CDRW 52X32: Location 1 (Secondary ATA Channel)

Is "location 0" the connection at the end of the IDE cable while
"location 1" is the connection in the middle? Or 0 the master, 1 the
slave?

I also have 3 HDs connected to an IDE card (with its own primary and
secondary slots). I can't really tell which one is which from the
properties.

Maxtor 6 Y160P0: Bus Number 0, Target ID 2, LUN 0
WDC WD12 00BB-00GUA0: Bus Number 0, Target ID 0, LUN 0
WDC WD25 00JB-00EVA0: Bus Number 0, Target ID 1, LUN 0

The bottom 2 are connected together to one of the slots and the top
one is on another slot alone. The info does not have primary or
secondary. The only difference they have are Target ID 0, 1, and 2.
How can I tell which one is which by looking at that info without
physically opening my case and look?

Thanks for the help,

liu

"cpliu" <spamfreeliu DeleteThis @yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1173297701.318931.288020@30g2000cwc.googlegroups.com
> How do I use the Properties of HD to figure out the physical location
> of the HD?
>
> The primary and secondary channels from the motherboard are not hard
> to figure out.
>
> Such as:
> Onboard Primary ATA Channel
> Maxtor 6L060J3: Location 0 (Primary ATA Channel)
> WDC WD600BB-75CAA0: Location 1 (Primary ATA Channel)
>
> Onboard Secondary ATA Channel
> _NEC DVD_RW ND-3520A: Location 0 (Secondary ATA Channel)
> ATAPI CDRW 52X32: Location 1 (Secondary ATA Channel)
>
> Is "location 0" the connection at the end of the IDE cable while
> "location 1" is the connection in the middle? Or 0 the master, 1 the slave?
>
> I also have 3 HDs connected to an IDE card (with its own primary and
> secondary slots). I can't really tell which one is which from the properties.
>
> Maxtor 6 Y160P0: Bus Number 0, Target ID 2, LUN 0
> WDC WD12 00BB-00GUA0: Bus Number 0, Target ID 0, LUN 0
> WDC WD25 00JB-00EVA0: Bus Number 0, Target ID 1, LUN 0
>
> The bottom 2 are connected together to one of the slots and the top
> one is on another slot alone. The info does not have primary or
> secondary. The only difference they have are Target ID 0, 1, and 2.

> How can I tell which one is which by looking at that info without
> physically opening my case and look?

And if you don't intend to open the case, the point of the whole exercise is what?

>
> Thanks for the help,
>
> liu