ide drives showing up as scsi?

[kromaey]

I have a epox 8rda+ nforce2 board and all of my IDE drives (both optical and both hard drives) are showing up as SCSI drives in the hardware profiles in windows. This wouldn't bother me much except for the fact that whenever I try to burn any cds in Nero, it starts up the pre-burn caching and then just aborts and ejects the cd. I'm pretty sure these are probably interrelated. Any ideas as to why this would happen?

http://www.perpetualadoration.net/sshot/scsi.jpg

Athlon XP 2200+
Epox 8RDA+
120gb Western Digital 8mb
80gb Seagate 7200.1
Lite-on cd-rw
pioneer dvd-500M dvd-rom
geforce mx440 64mb
Sound Blaster audigy
Windows XP Home


edit: forgot to mention that I have the newest nforce2 drivers and newest bios update.

 

[mastertech01]

Ive seen this posted before only with Win2k and EPoX 8K7A+ on a VIA board. The fix was a later version of the buss master drivers. Unfortunately doesnt help your situation with an Nforce board but you may want to search the website at Epox for a FAQ on the problem. Maybe contact thier tech support. Also maybe posting this in motherboards section as well.

 

[EeyoreX]

I think the Nero problem is actually sorta related by way of the nForce IDE drivers. Try checking out either the Epox or Drivers forums at nForcersHQ. In general, however, when Windows is installed on controllers such as IDE RAID controllers they show up as SCSI devices, and this is not usually a problem. Again, I think in this case it is due to bad IDE drivers and the nForce board.

\Dan

 

[KGB]

It appears to be your SW IDE drivers for the NF2 chipset.
Read this.

 

[ethebubbeth]

Yeah, i used to have the exact same problem with my asus a7n8x. Download the latest nforce driver's from nvidia's website. If prompted whether or not ot install the ide sw bus master driver, choose no. It causes all sorts of compatibility issues.