My computer sees all my drives as SCSI, they're not.

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Tom

I just upgraded my computer to an AMD 2500/333. I also
changed the MB. In doing this, I went from a raid O
setup to a single IDE drive. I copied the raid disk onto
the new disk and reinstalled windows XP. It overwrote
all the setup files as expected, but one wierd thing is
happening. All my drives, 2 Maxtor HD's and 2 Cyberdrive
CD/RW drives are all running under SCSI drivers. None of
them are SCSI, they work now but I have a bad feeling
about this. Anyone know What is up with this drive
misidentification?

My CD/RW won't write to disk either.

Thanks in advance...

Tom
 
Tom said:
I just upgraded my computer to an AMD 2500/333. I also
changed the MB. In doing this, I went from a raid O
setup to a single IDE drive. I copied the raid disk onto
the new disk and reinstalled windows XP. It overwrote
all the setup files as expected, but one wierd thing is
happening. All my drives, 2 Maxtor HD's and 2 Cyberdrive
CD/RW drives are all running under SCSI drivers. None of
them are SCSI, they work now but I have a bad feeling
about this. Anyone know What is up with this drive
misidentification?

My CD/RW won't write to disk either.

Thanks in advance...

Tom
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Most plug-in (add-on) adapter boards for IDE HDs present a
SCSI interface to Windows. So, if your HDs are connected
via adapter boards, then it is normal for them to appear
as SCSI.

If your HDs are connected via the standard on-board IDE
adapter chips and are still listed as SCSI HDs, then you
should try a repair install of XP to see if that cures it.
 
Bob Willard said:
Most plug-in (add-on) adapter boards for IDE HDs present a
SCSI interface to Windows. So, if your HDs are connected
via adapter boards, then it is normal for them to appear
as SCSI.

If your HDs are connected via the standard on-board IDE
adapter chips and are still listed as SCSI HDs, then you
should try a repair install of XP to see if that cures it.
Click to expand...

Are you using an nforce2 board with the nvidia nforce motherboard drivers?
If so then these drivers appear to re-name all your IDE devices as SCSI
ones. I was concerned about this as well but it doesen't seem to have caused
any problems.

So probably no need to worry ... probably ;o)

HTH

BIll
 
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