Gigabyte DS3 problem please help

[ibex333]

I have a Lite-ON SOHW 1673S and it was working fine in the old system and in the new one when I built it several months ago. About 2 months ago, I started having problems with my drive. I thought I changed nothing in my system back then, but I recently remembered that I removed the RAID driver from Add/Remove programs. Off course my writer died right there and then. I reinstalled the drivers and everything was fine again until now.

My drive died again. Sometimes it lives for 5-10 minutes after reboot, then dies again. Sometimes it's dead all the time. I checked the device manager and noticed that my drive is listed as a SCSI device. That's impossible since it's an IDE drive.

I removed and reinstalled the RAID driver from my disk that came with the mobo. Again.. It's SCSI!!

I went to gigabyte's site and downloaded the latest drivers... Reintalled. - SCSI yet again.

Damn it... How can I get windows to see the drive as an IDE device?

 

[VirtualLarry]

This is completely normal, if the DVD drive is running off an IDE port that is controlled by a RAID driver. Nearly all RAID drivers make their associated drives show up as SCSI.

 

[ibex333]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
This is completely normal, if the DVD drive is running off an IDE port that is controlled by a RAID driver. Nearly all RAID drivers make their associated drives show up as SCSI.

Thank you. In that case, I am completely convinced now, that my DVD drive is indeed broken physically, and it is not a software problem. Oh well, the new ones are not too expensive anyway.