sata o ata disk?

[Mauro Sanna <mauro.sanna@comune.cagliari.it>]

I have installed debian stable in a remote system.
How can I see the hardware type to compile the correct drivers in the 
kernel?
Example How can I see if I have an ATA or a SATA hard disk?
The utility lspci tells only:

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0258
0000:00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 1258
0000:00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 2258
0000:00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3258
0000:00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 4258
0000:00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 7258
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
0000:00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA 
RAID Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 
1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 
1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 
1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 
1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge 
[K8T800 South]
0000:00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 
[Rhine-II] (rev 78)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 
[GeForce4 MX 4000 AGP 8x] (rev c1)