Phantom CD-Rom

[Ken K]

Yesterday, I removed an old SCSI CD-Rom drive that had been just taking
up a bay in my computer. I had not used it in perhaps three or four
years, although for some reason I did keep the Adaptec SCSI controller
card in the computer as well and watched it tick away looking for
devices each time it booted, and never finding any, as none were
attached (I had not attached a power connector to the CD-Rom)

Anyway, at the moment my computer now shows two CD-Roms, one my Plextor
708A, which is there, and one a

Hardware: Generic DVD-Rom SCSI CD Rom device,
Device Type: SCSI (Port 3, Target ID: 0, LUN:0
Adapter Name D347PRT SCSI Controller

I do not have a SCSI controller in my box, although I do have a Promise
SATAII150 TX4, which is a non-RAID SATA controller.

Does anyone know what the issue is?

Thanks
Ken K

 

[Steve Parry [MVP]]

Ken K fumbled, fiddled and fingered:

Yesterday, I removed an old SCSI CD-Rom drive that had been just
taking up a bay in my computer. I had not used it in perhaps three
or four years, although for some reason I did keep the Adaptec SCSI
controller card in the computer as well and watched it tick away
looking for devices each time it booted, and never finding any, as
none were attached (I had not attached a power connector to the
CD-Rom)

Anyway, at the moment my computer now shows two CD-Roms, one my
Plextor 708A, which is there, and one a

Hardware: Generic DVD-Rom SCSI CD Rom device,
Device Type: SCSI (Port 3, Target ID: 0, LUN:0
Adapter Name D347PRT SCSI Controller

I do not have a SCSI controller in my box, although I do have a
Promise SATAII150 TX4, which is a non-RAID SATA controller.

Does anyone know what the issue is?

Have you tried going into Device Manager and manually deleting the
errant CD drive?




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Steve Parry BA (Hons) MCP MVP


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[Ken K]

Ken K fumbled, fiddled and fingered:




Have you tried going into Device Manager and manually deleting the
errant CD drive?

Yes. When I reboot, it re-appears.
Very strange....

 

[Steve Parry [MVP]]

Ken K fumbled, fiddled and fingered:

Yes. When I reboot, it re-appears.
Very strange....

Have you tried

right click My Computer
select Manage
<computer management opens>
navigate to
Storage
Removable Storage
Physical Locations

delete the device from there

and delete from the device manager as previously mentioned

then reboot







--
Steve Parry BA (Hons) MCP MVP


http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk

http://www.petitiononline.com/X30WM5/petition.html