Hard drive being detected as a DVD-Rom SCSI CdRom Device

[Junin]

I recently had some major problems with my system and I was forced to reformat my system. Now my 2nd harddrive (slave) is being detected as a DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device. What's going on? How do I fix this?

 

[Steve]

I don't know why it's being reported as an optical drive, but it's generally okay if it's called a SCSI drive. I assume you're using Windows NT/2000/XP or later? Third-party mass storage drivers cause drives to be reported as SCSI. This is completely normal and by design.

However, as I said, I still don't know why it's being called a DVD/CD drive. I think your options are:

1) Try different IDE drivers, including Windows' own generic drivers.
2) See if your drive has any downloadable firmware

And it also can't hurt to simply try a different IDE cable, and a different jumper configuration.

 

[watek]

Do you have a VIA chipset board?

 

[Smilin]

check your setupapi.log in windows and see if the device is giving the proper pnpid.