Very Strange Problem

[rossgallo]

I have had some problems in the last two months with my hard drives. I have an 80 Gb Maxtor IDE and a 8 GB Maxtor IDE. I have reformatted them in the last day and noticed under the System Information of Windows XP Pro that it shows for the 80 Gb:
SCSI Bus 0
SCSI Logical Unit 0
SCSI Port 0
SCSI Target ID 1

On the 8 Gb:
SCSI Bus 0
SCSI Logical Unit 0
SCSI Port 1
SCSI Target ID 0

I may be messed up but why does a IDE drive have information dealing with SCSI port and ID. I would appreciate any help as I am stumped and consuming to much Capn Morgan trying to figure it out. This is also mirrored at http://forums.storagereview.net/viewtopic.php?t=8470

 

[khha4113]

It also does in my system and it's normal. I think it was designed like this in first place as my Highpoint IDE-RAID controller is also listed as SCSI adapter.

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[lhgpoobaa]

are your optical drives also listed as sczzy?

There have been a number of instances where bad chipset drivers do wierd things and make all ones drives and controllers scsi.

the Via 4.28's were known to do this, as was a revision of the Nforce2 drivers.

Simply replacing them with newer ones fixed it.

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[Crashman]

Trust me, it's better that way. Most add in IDE cards are listed as SCSI cards so that the card itself controls drive speed instead of the OS. Some drivers for integrated controllers also do this, so that the driver controls transfer rate instead of the OS.

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