XP sees an IDE/ATA HD as a SCSI drive ????

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I added a second ATA HD (a 13.6GB Maxtor).. the bios sees
the drive correctly, but Win XP Home sees it (in device
manager and "add new hardware" as a SCSI drive, which makes
NO sense to me.

Anybody have a thought?
 
The same thing happened to me when I added a Maxtor SATA
drive and controller to a Win XP Pro system -- the Maxtor
support people said it was OK... everything seems to work
OK, so it apparently has something to do with the way XP
characterizes things.
 
Early on when XP was first released, i was told if the HD is connected to
the mobo on a particular IDE connector it will show-up this way but run just
fine.. I forgot how i connected it without looking, but mine is connected
this way and does not show-up in the bios at all... nevertheless this is
perfectly normal according to my tech friends who advised this connection.
On second thought, it is the Promise ultra controller that it is connected
to by itself. (and displays ass an asci device.
My burners are on seperate channels each...
 
Bill said:
I added a second ATA HD (a 13.6GB Maxtor).. the bios sees
the drive correctly, but Win XP Home sees it (in device
manager and "add new hardware" as a SCSI drive, which makes
NO sense to me.

Anybody have a thought?
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That is normal for IDE HDs connected via a plug-in controller card,
since the firmware on those cards present the HDs as SCSI HDs.
 
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