Errors from ata6:00 -- How to find corresponding device?

[Chris Tyler]

On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 09:17 +0000, Andy Campbell wrote:
> > What does the 6 or 6:00 correspond to? It doesn't appear to be a major
> > or minor device number, or correspond to any entries in /sys that I can
> > find. If the 6 is not the device (but rather the driver version or
> > something), is there any part of these messages that indicate which
> > device is associated with the error?
> 
> According to the libata wiki ...
> 
> http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Libata_error_messages
> 
> It should be the drive plugged into port 6 of your motherboard.

Thank you! That's a great link; I had googled all over for that info but
somehow didn't find it.

I still wonder, though, how to convert "port 6" to a Linux device name
-- surely the kernel knows the mapping somewhere, how do I get at that
info?

-Chris