XP keeps installing a disk drive when there is none

[chimaera15]

I recently purchased a dvd drive, and when I opened up the case I saw that I only had one IDE connector to which are already plugged both HD and cd-rw (which i insist on keeping)..i read in the manual for my motherboard (asus p5gd1) which said it was fine to plug in another ide cable in the raid connector...so i set the drive as slave hook it up, when it boots up it keeps telling me that i have an ultra 66 drive connected using a 40 pin cable and that it has to reduce the speed to 33 (is there something i can do about that message?) finally when windows boots up, everything seems normal except for the fact that i now see a diskette drive installed when I don't have one installed....it doesn't seem to be causing any problems so far but it is rather annoying, for now i disabled it in the hardware manager, but it keeps re-enabling everytime windows boots up...is there anything i can do to permanently delete this? thanks, and sorry for the scattered post...

 

[CraigRT]

I can't believe there is only 1 standard IDE.. that's so weird.
first easy thing first, you could always try going from slave to master on the RAID controller, as long as it's not set to boot from there, you won't have a problem.
I can't see getting a UDMA33 error without you actually using a regular 40pin ribbon cable... are you indeed using the UDMA66+ 80pin ribbon? couple things to check/try.

As for the floppy drive problem, not sure... if it's disabled in your BIOS though, (which it may not be) turning it off in there on the first screen should do the trick. You can set 3.5" floppy to either "none" or "disabled", whatever the case may be.