Ide devices detected as SCSI - Asus P4S533

[thenads]

Last week I upgraded my computer based around an Asus P4S533 motherboard. All very straightforward and working fine. I'm running XP professional however, and in the device manager all IDE devices are detected as SCSI type. Does anyone know why windows should install SCSI drivers for an IDE device?

 

[HermitGuy]

Do you by chance have your drives hooked up through a promise ata controller card. My IDE harddrive shows up as a SCSI device connected through this controller. When I look in device manager under SCSI and RAID controllers my ata card shows up as a Promise Technology inc. ultra IDE Controller, this is how Windows installs the drivers for this card. I also had to set my bios to SCSI for the controller to work properly.

If this is not the case with yours then I'm out of suggestions, sorry!

 

[Peter]

As soon as you're running a non-Microsoft driver for your IDE channels, they'll be classified as SCSI. Perfectly normal, and nothing to worry about (unless you're an operating system software engineer at Microsoft )

regards, Peter

 

[thenads]

thanks peter! nope i dont work for microsoft... they would've fired me long ago!