Windows recognizing drives as SCSI??!?!!!

[Guest]

I have a Samsung SATA hard drive, a Sony CRX225 CD-RW and a Plextor PX-708A
DVD-RW. I hadn't used the burners for a while, now they aren't working (can
read from them but most of the time won't write). In the device
manager\drive\properties, Win XP sees them all as SCSI devices. How is this
possible? The BIOS has them as IDE primary and secondary drives, so where
does the SCSI come in? Could this be part of the burning problem I am having?

 

[DevilsPGD]

In message <[email protected]> "Randy"

I have a Samsung SATA hard drive, a Sony CRX225 CD-RW and a Plextor PX-708A
DVD-RW. I hadn't used the burners for a while, now they aren't working (can
read from them but most of the time won't write). In the device
manager\drive\properties, Win XP sees them all as SCSI devices. How is this
possible? The BIOS has them as IDE primary and secondary drives, so where
does the SCSI come in? Could this be part of the burning problem I am having?

Windows shows virtually all drives as SCSI if they're not IDE or USB.
This includes SATA, RAID, SATA+RAID, and other adapters (plus actual
SCSI adapters)

 

[Yves Leclerc]

I would like to add: Windows XP will treat all add-on drive controllers as
SCSI controllers. If you were to add a standard IDE PCI controller to any
XP, all drives will be shown as SCSI.