Why is my ide haddrive showing up as scsi in windows 2000?

[slpaulson]

I'm running windows 2k profressional on a k7t pro2 with my harddrive plugged into the motherboard's ide connectors. Is this normal? How will I know if dma is enabled?

I am running the new 4 in 1 drivers.

 

[mastertech01]

Is it the HDD or the controller that shows as SCSI? ATA 100 controllers would show up as a SCSI device ordinarily

 

[Supradude]

yes, mastertech01 is right,... ATA controllers are like "scsi emulators..."... to check DMA, go to control panel/system/devices/and go to the HDD, then go properties and there is a check box for options, DMA is among them...

 

[Dulanic]

If you installed the IDE Busmaster drivers included in VIA 4 in 1 that will cause it. It can cause problems with CDRs and DVDs.

 

[slpaulson]

The harddrive shows up as scsi
it reads maxtor 9 2049u6 scsi disk device.

DMA is not under my harddrive properties.

write chach enabled is greyed out under disk properties and disable tagged queing and disable sync transfers under scsi properties.

 

[RP]

I've got the same problem... but what other alternative does one have than to use the VIA busmaster drivers... Its very frustrating to go from a BX board to a VIA platform and get slower scores on your harddrive an mem (no surprise of cource, but still its buggin the crap outa me).

Lets just hope, that with time the KT133A gets mature...

Currently Im using 4in1 4.28 and 3.11 busmaster BETA... any recomendations on better versions??

KT7A-Raid and Duron 700 @ 900
45gig GXP75