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11-02-2003, 09:22 AM
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Hard drives showing they're SCSI in hardware manager...huh?
2500 Barton @ 2017mhz (11.5x175)
Epox 8RDA NForce2 mobo
512mb Kingston pc2700ddr
Leadtek GeforceFX5600 128mb
2x40Gig Seagate ATA 100 Hard drives (80gigs total)
Cyberdrive cd/rw
Santa Cruz sound card
Kingston Ethernet card
Windows XP SP1
I dunno what happened, but my hard drives are showing up as SCSI devices... I'm a little confused. I'll post a screenshot. I thought ATA 100 and SCSI was different or something? I know for a fact these drives aren't SCSI drives. I don't know when this change happened, but some games/programs seem to take a bit to load/exit. Any suggestions? Maybe an update for the mobo's drivers will solve this?
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11-02-2003, 09:25 AM
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It's not a problem. Some IDE controllers make their attached disks show up as SCSI disks. I know that with my Promise ATA Controller card my drive shows up as a SCSI drive.
Does your board have RAID built in?
EDIT: When's the last time you defragged your drives?
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11-02-2003, 10:00 AM
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No RAID with this board.
I defragged last week actually 
I can remember that they showed up as ata100 drives before...  | |
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11-02-2003, 10:25 AM
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Before WHAT?
Installing the MoBo drivers correctly , or updating a SP maybe ?
SCSI devices listed in Dev Mgr is quite common. I have 3 Maxtors on a Promise Ultra66 listed as SCSI
I have a WD1000JB & a Samsung SP8004H on my SiS IDE controller , and they are NOT listed as SCSI . . .
I know with VIA chipsets you will get that , I'm guessing with nForce too ..... 
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11-02-2003, 10:28 AM
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I have the same problem and Atomic Rooster suggested getting updated drivers. Which I really should get around to installing one of these days.
Oh my post about it http://www.techimo.com/forum/showthr...threadid=71112 | |
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11-02-2003, 10:53 AM
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Yeah Bones, I get those error messages too.
So, I'll try updating the mobo drivers.
EDIT: Ok so I downloaded the nForce drivers off Nvidia's site...
But wait! Should I uninstall the current drivers or just run the .exe and install over them? I forgot which is the correct way. 
Last edited by Hopper; 11-02-2003 at 11:03 AM.
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11-02-2003, 11:17 AM
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YAY! The updated nForce drivers solved the issue. Yep, I'm a dumb-arse haha!! 
I just installed the new drivers over the old ones (nforcershq.com) and so far no probs...
Here's a screen:
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11-02-2003, 11:25 AM
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very interesting...just a little side note about SCSI and windows
There is what is called SCSI emulation which windows always uses for IDE drives, it speeds up their performance. I remember back with windows 9x and adaptec easy creator 4, i had to download an update to the scsi emulation for it to work. so windows treats all drives as scsi, even when their not. so that's prolly why it showed up as scsi...the driver problems caused windows to not know exactly what the drive was so it "defaulted" so to speak.
another aside: linux does not do scsi emulation by default...which makes cd-burning impossible (takes around an hour to burn a cd on a 40x plextor cd burner). so that's how i learned about all this.
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11-02-2003, 11:56 AM
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If your drives are recognized as SCSI, Win might activate Double Buffering - which you don't need unless your IDE drives are attached to an add-on controller and maybe not even then. IOW, you don't want it unless you really need it (for true SCSI drives). You may need to edit your MSDOS.SYS file to get rid of Double Buffering.
.bh.
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11-02-2003, 05:00 PM
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How would I go about editing my MSDOS.SYS file?
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