WD SATA Drive configured by Vista as a SCSI Drive

[Guest]

My hard drive seems to be working overtime and when I checked it in the
Device Manager I noticed its listed as a WD SCSI Disk Drive when its actually
an SATA drive.

Went to the WD Website and the same old story "Western Digital does not
provide technical support or drivers for our products installed under Windows
Vista because Microsoft has not finalized the operating system for public
release. Since Windows Vista is still in the BETA (prototype) software
development stage, you will need to contact Microsoft for support issues".

Is this the problem of my hard drive thrashing and how do I solve it.

Many thanks

 

[Theo]

SATA drives showing up as SCSI drives is a
result of the SATA driver. Depending on the
board BIOS options, SATA drives on VIA
controller either use the 'viamraid' driver and
become 'SCSI' drivers, or the SATA IDE driver,
which is incorporated into the regular IDE drive
and you have IDE drives. When seen as IDE, you
will also have 2 Primary IDE and 2 Secondary IDE
channel listings.

The thrashing is probably caused by Vista and
there may not be any solution at this time.

 

[Guest]

OK so your saying this is normal and nothing to worry about?

Many thanks

 

[Theo]

Yes, this is normal. Also, if you look at your
'SCSI and RAID controllers' in the
Device Manager, you will see a SATA RAID
Controller regardless of you SATA configuration;
i.e. either as SATA drives or in a RAID
configuration. Mine is "VIA SATA RAID
Controller" but I don't have a RAID
configuration, just 2 SATA hard drives.