Ever since installation of my sata hd my cdroms show up as scsi devices

[Ymeister19]

I installed a seagate 200 gig sata hd and ever since my cdroms are checking in as scsi devices. I really dont understand this. I mean everything still works like it did but why would these drives show up as scsi when they are ide? Just a question out of curiosity more than anything.

 

[Fern]

I've seen this on my fathers pc as well. But his had nothing to do with a sata HD.

The reason in his case had to do with the drivers for his mobo (NF7). If you install the nVidia IDE drivers instead of the MS reference drivers. WinXP, for some reason, will show the drives as scsi. No big deal in his case. I found out this is normal and everything works fine.

Fern

 

[zephyrprime]

Windows always categorizes any add on drive controller as a SCSI controller even if it isn't. It's always done this and it's normal.