SATA II new hard disk listed as SCSI disk

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Poster Matt

Hi,

Yesterday I installed a new 1TB SATA II hard disk and a PCI-Express x1 SATA
II controller card to connect it to.

In 'Disk Management' I made it a 'Basic' disk, made one partition of the
whole disk, and quick formatted it. It appears to be working fine.

However... in 'Device Manager' under 'Disk Drives' it lists the new drive as
'Samsung HD103UJ SCSI Disk Device'. As I already stated it is a SATA II disk
drive. When I bring up the disk's properties in 'Device Manager' it has the
same tabs as my other SATA II disks but it also has a 'SCSI Properties' tab.

I don't really understand this and am concerned that the wrong drivers have
been installed. The controller card that I installed also has an entry in
'Device Manager' under 'SCSI and RAID controllers'. I am not using the RAID
facility of the controller card but it does have RAID capabilities.

I don't want to start using the new disk until I know it's been installed
correctly and the controller card and drivers are all operating as they
should be and not set-up wrong.

Can someone advise me on this please?

Many thanks and regards, etc.,

Matt
 
D

DL

The only drivers installed/required are those supplied with your sata card,
did you install them?
Assuming thats a Samsung drive that is correct
Your card will also appear as scsi/raid controler
 
P

Poster Matt

DL said:
The only drivers installed/required are those supplied with your sata card,
did you install them?
Assuming thats a Samsung drive that is correct
Your card will also appear as scsi/raid controler

Yes I installed the SATA II controller card's drivers. Yes the drive is a
Samsung and the model number is correct, but I don't see why Device
Manager's 'Disk Drives' section lists the drive as 'Samsung HD103UJ SCSI
Disk Device' when the drive is a SATA II drive and not a SCSI drive.

Any ideas?

Thanks.
 
J

Jim

Poster Matt said:
Yes I installed the SATA II controller card's drivers. Yes the drive is a
Samsung and the model number is correct, but I don't see why Device
Manager's 'Disk Drives' section lists the drive as 'Samsung HD103UJ SCSI
Disk Device' when the drive is a SATA II drive and not a SCSI drive.

Any ideas?

Thanks.
To add to what DL posted:

The info you are getting comes from the controller card.
The controller card accepts SCSI commands and converts them to SATA
Hencs, as far as Windows knows, you have inserted a SCSI card which reports
its identification as you see it.
 
P

Poster Matt

Jim said:
To add to what DL posted:

The info you are getting comes from the controller card.
The controller card accepts SCSI commands and converts them to SATA
Hencs, as far as Windows knows, you have inserted a SCSI card which reports
its identification as you see it.

Thanks for the explanation Jim, now I understand what's going on.

Cheers.
 
J

Jim

Poster Matt said:
Thanks for the explanation Jim, now I understand what's going on.

Cheers.
Way back yonder (in 1999), I installed an extra ATA-100 card in my computer.
To my amazement, Windows reported the disk attached to the card as a SCSI
device.
The explanation that I was given then was essentially what I told you now.
Windows has worked this way for some time now.
Jim
 

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