Question My 2 NVME drives are showing up as SCSI on Windows 11 ?

[ramu.indrasimhan]

Hi,

I've got two NVME Drives that are showing up as SCSI drives in Windows 11 Device Manager. The drives are performing fine. For the Samsung one I am able to identify it on Magician and can optimize the drive. On the WD SN850 Drive I have I am not able to activate the game mode, which makes the drive a little faster when you use the WD Black software, because the drive isn't recognmized as NVME.

I wouldn't really care, however at the moment, with Direct Storage being implemented and games soon going to be taking advantage of the protocol I wanted to be ready. So I headed over to Xbox gamebar and looked at the diagnostic, and it said my computer was ready for Direct Storage, however it didn't detect any NVME drives.

I suspect this is because they are listed as SCSI.

I have a feeling this started when I accidently installed STORE MI. I uninstalled it, but it seems to still identify the drives as SCSI.

Is there a solution to fix this without having to do a clean install of Windows?

Any support here would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!!

Here are my specs:

GPU: MSI RTX 3080 Gaming Z Trio

CPU:Ryzen 9 5900x

Motherboard: Dark Hero Crosshair VIII x570

BIOS Version: 4201

RAM: 32GB G.SKILL Trident Z Neo Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3800 (PC4 30400) Desktop Memory Model F4-3800C14D-32GTZN

PSU: Corsair RM850 80Plus Gold

Case: Lian Li O11 Dynamic XL ROG

Operating System & Version: Windows 11 Pro 21H2

GPU Drivers: GEFORCE GAME READY DRIVER - 516.94

Chipset Drivers: AMD X570 4.06.10.651

 

[Colif]

might help to check bios settings and see drives not set up as raid - https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/samsung-ssds-showing-as-scsi-disk-device.3677257/

 

[ramu.indrasimhan]

might help to check bios settings and see drives not set up as raid - https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/samsung-ssds-showing-as-scsi-disk-device.3677257/

Thanks, I've seen that thread when I was searching for solutions. Can confirm my bios isn't set to RAID.

Any other possible solutions?

 

[Colif]

I have a feeling this started when I accidently installed STORE MI.

From the Store mi release notes

Notice/Information: Once AMD StoreMI technology is configured, included disks will be listed as “SCSI” devices in Windows Device Manager. This is expected behavior.

I don't think you can change it without a clean install.
the guide doesn't mention it besides fact it wants you to delete all the partitions of any drives set up using it - https://www.amd.com/system/files/documents/storemi-user-guide.pdf

 

[CountMike]

Technically, PATA, SATA, NVME etc are all part of SCSI (Small Computer System Interface). Try updating drivers in Storage controllers in Device manager.

 

[Colif]

Intel and WD used to classify nvme as scsi in some of their drivers. Intel used to push intel rapid storage tech as well for use with nvme.

drivers could work, I suspect its made changes in registry as well.