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I just re-installed Windows XP Home, it has listed both my DVD drive and my
DVD burner as a SCSI drive, which they are not. How can I fix this?
Thanks,
Frank
 
fdm813 said:
I just re-installed Windows XP Home, it has listed both my DVD drive and my
DVD burner as a SCSI drive, which they are not. How can I fix this?
Thanks,
Frank
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It's normal. Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP all classify
IDE and SCSI devices as SCSI.
 
Frank:

Have you installed the Win XP drivers for your motherboard?
Without those drivers, Windows usually mis-identifies on-board IDE
controllers as PCI add-in controllers.

Since Windows treats all add-in controller cards as SCSI, any built-in IDE
controllers that lack proper drivers will, indeed, be listed as SCSI.
As you might surmise, any device that Windows identifies as attached to a
SCSI controller is assumed, perforce, to be a SCSI device.

steve
 
Og said:
Frank:

Have you installed the Win XP drivers for your motherboard?
Without those drivers, Windows usually mis-identifies on-board IDE
controllers as PCI add-in controllers.

Since Windows treats all add-in controller cards as SCSI, any built-in IDE
controllers that lack proper drivers will, indeed, be listed as SCSI.
As you might surmise, any device that Windows identifies as attached to a
SCSI controller is assumed, perforce, to be a SCSI device.

steve
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Interesting...you and GHalleck gave the same answer. And if
you had looked into the Windows Registry, under HKEY_LOCAL_
MACHINE, there are no such thing as IDE ports but SCSI Ports
and they will enumerate IDE devices. No such thing as IDE
ports.
 
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