I know, I don't understand that. In some places it says SCSI and in others it says SATA, in knoppix it is mounted as /dev/sda1, so I assumed it to be an SCSI drive.

But I thought SATA drives are seen in linux as 'virtual' SCSI drives.
If that is the case then the drive is probably a SATA drive. I'll try using the sata.i