My IDE drive shows up as SCSI in XP

[mrfatboy]

I just built a new rig (see sig). I put in a new SATA WD 250gig and an old IDE WD 80gig (wd800jb-00dua3). The old 80 gig drive is showing up SCSI in the device manager. Anybody know why or how I can fix it? The drive seems to work but is freaking me out.

 

[BenchZowner]

It's appearing as an SCSI drive because of the controller ( the Jmicron JMB363 that controls the IDE port on this mobo ), and it's ok, it's normal to appear like an SCSI drive with that controller.
Don't worry, it's fine

 

[mrfatboy]

Originally posted by: BenchZowner
It's appearing as an SCSI drive because of the controller ( the Jmicron JMB363 that controls the IDE port on this mobo ), and it's ok, it's normal to appear like an SCSI drive with that controller.
Don't worry, it's fine

thanks for the info. i feel better

 

[Peter]

That's a long ongoing trend in storage drivers. Rather than reinventing it all in a specific driver, it is actually much easier to leverage the SCSI infrastructure for SATA, as SCSI has had features like command queuing and hot plugging for a LONG while.