Disk drive not showing name in driver list

[Yousuf Khan]

Okay, have recently upgraded my motherboard to a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5
board (AM3+). Now something strange is happening with the disk drives
drivers in Windows 7, not sure if it's worth worrying about or not. In
the BIOS of the motherboard, there is a setting called "OnChip SATA Port
4/5 Type", and it's possible settings are: (1) IDE, or (2) "As SATA Type".

By default this is set to IDE, and when that setting is taken,
everything seems pretty normal, as you can see from this screen capture
of the Windows Device Manager.

http://imageshack.com/a/img853/3110/rkdq.jpg

However, after I set that to "As SATA Type", you can see in this next
picture that a couple of the named hard drives disappear and get
replaced by the generic name "disk drive".

http://imageshack.com/a/img199/5906/zcot.jpg

Any idea what's going on here?

 

[BillW50]

In Yousuf Khan typed:

Okay, have recently upgraded my motherboard to a Gigabyte
GA-990FXA-UD5 board (AM3+). Now something strange is happening with
the disk drives drivers in Windows 7, not sure if it's worth worrying
about or not. In the BIOS of the motherboard, there is a setting
called "OnChip SATA Port 4/5 Type", and it's possible settings are:
(1) IDE, or (2) "As SATA Type".
By default this is set to IDE, and when that setting is taken,
everything seems pretty normal, as you can see from this screen
capture of the Windows Device Manager.

http://imageshack.com/a/img853/3110/rkdq.jpg

However, after I set that to "As SATA Type", you can see in this next
picture that a couple of the named hard drives disappear and get
replaced by the generic name "disk drive".

http://imageshack.com/a/img199/5906/zcot.jpg

Any idea what's going on here?

What does it say in properties (context menu)?

 

[Yousuf Khan]

The two drives that are no longer ID'd are ATA not SATA devices. IIRC,
ATA is an improved version of EIDE.

No, they are most definitely SATA devices. They are both pretty modern
1.5TB drives. I installed them myself too, so I know what type of
connectors they use, and they are using SATA connectors and not IDE
connectors.

OTOH, in Explorer you should be able to Rename the disk drives to
anything you want.

This is in Device Manager, not Explorer. They show up just fine in
Explorer, with their proper volume names, etc.

In Device Manager, the IDs are manufacturer part-numbers. You can't
change this, it's basically a BIOS thing.

In Explorer, each partition ("drive" in MS-speak) is named starting with
C:. Windows has its default naming scheme, but you can change the names
anytime to suit yourself.

Yes, but Explorer is not the issue here.

Yousuf Khan

 

[Paul]

Okay, have recently upgraded my motherboard to a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5 board (AM3+). Now something strange is happening with the disk drives drivers in Windows 7, not sure if it's worth worrying about or not. In the BIOS of the motherboard, there is a setting called "OnChip SATA Port 4/5 Type", and it's possible settings are: (1) IDE, or (2) "As SATA Type".

By default this is set to IDE, and when that setting is taken, everything seems pretty normal, as you can see from this screen capture of the Windows Device Manager.

http://imageshack.com/a/img853/3110/rkdq.jpg

However, after I set that to "As SATA Type", you can see in this next picture that a couple of the named hard drives disappear and get replaced by the generic name "disk drive".

http://imageshack.com/a/img199/5906/zcot.jpg

Any idea what's going on here?

I presume "Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller", a
generic Microsoft driver, does not support the "Device ID" call ?

I've seen generic disks like that here, but can't remember
the context.

*******

I would boot a Linux LiveCD, and use the tools in there
to list all disks. If Linux can elicit Device ID from
all drives, then you know your problem is just a
stinky Windows driver.

Paul

 

[Yousuf Khan]

I presume "Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller", a
generic Microsoft driver, does not support the "Device ID" call ?

I've seen generic disks like that here, but can't remember
the context.

Actually, it's the opposite thing that's happening here. The Standard
Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller is the one that is seeing the right
names for Device ID.

Yousuf Khan