Asus P5Q-Deluxe issue with SATA DVD-RW

[pvrbulls]

I have had my system running with no problems for over a year and decided to add a Lightscribe burner. I got a Samsung SH-S223Q, which is a SATA unit; I also have an NEC ND-3550A which is an IDE unit. I have SATA configuration set to AHCI in BIOS.

The new Samsung drive seems to be able to read and write just fine, but.... XP(service pack 3) recognizes it as a removable device that can be "stopped" or "removed" via the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon that it opens in the System Tray. Also, Windows Explorer shows it as being a DVD-RAM instead of a DVD-RW... like the NEC drive.

I have had zero luck in getting help from Samsung.

I am hoping that there is a BIOS setting I am missing that will resolve this minor problem.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Zane

 

[chinhng]

AHCI is only good when you want hot swap function and native command queuing for the hard drive. that's probably why your samsung drive is recognized as a usb device and can be hot swapped.

in your case, ther is no reason for AHCI mode. just configure sATA as IDE mode and everything should be okay.

 

[pvrbulls]

Thanks a lot. That did eliminate the removable device part of the problem, but Windows Explorer still lists it as a DVD-RAM instead of a DVD-RW.

Guess I'll leave SATA Configuration set to IDE unless some other problem develops.