Win2K detects my IDE hard drives as SCSI...Why?

odz

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I have a Maxtor 40GB and a Seagate Barracuda 20GB master/slaved to my ata-66 plug on my MB. I just reinstalled W2K a couple weeks ago and it says my drives are SCSI's in the Device Manager. I removed them and had it re-detect, with the same results.
I don't know if this is affecting the speed of the drives, but I would like to fix it if I could.
Any Ideas?:confused:
 

HansXP

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This is normal, it doesn't affect the speed of the drives or anything. Don't worry about it.
 

Noriaki

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Only the IDE controller that is built into your motherboard's chipset will be considered IDE by Win2k.

If you have a 3rd and 4th IDE port on your mobo then those will be considered SCSI by Win2k. It has no effect on hard drive performance. Same deal if you add a PCI IDE controller card.

I have two hard drives hanging off my PCI Promise card and Win2k thinks they are SCSI, but it still works just fine.
 

odz

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Thanks for the responses, I seem to have fixed the apparent 'non-problem'. I updated my Via 4 in 1s and Windows now sees them as they are.