Odd disk problem in XP, or is it?

[jfall]

I have an IBM 75GXP ATA100 Hard Drive and when I go into my device manager in Windows XP it it showing the hard drive as being an `IBM SCSI Disk Device`. I have no idea why the drive would be being detected as a SCSI drive. I must be losing some proformance some how, I can't even see how DMA would be enabled. Any suggestions would be great!

 

[Panther505]

Do you have is attached to a ATA controller(promise or High point)?

I have a High point controller in my Server box that sees makes the OS see the Disks as SCSI

 

[ckbone]

I've read the explanition for this somewhere.....it has to do with the controller not being identified properly as an IDE device. Somehow then it gets it's SCSI designation. This is a normal occurence with various flavors of Windows, so I wouldn't worry about it. Lots of devices do this.

 

[KROME]

yeah same thing here I have a A7V133 and my HD shows up as a SCSI device on the Promise controller
it will be fine the drive will be set to DMA

 

[jfall]

Ya, I do have it on the ATA 100 Controller on my Abit KT-7 RAID board. Is there certian drivers that I may have to get/update to make it reconize it properly? or is it fine the way it is?

 

[Panther505]

No that is acting as designed (in MS venacular). The drivers if properly installed should enumerate it as SCSI