Re: Why are my IDE drives SCSI?

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From: David Vair (dvair_at_nycap.rr.com)
Date: 01/12/05 

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:28:27 GMT

That information is fine, but not revelant to the situation. If you hook an IDE hard drive to an
add-in controller such as a Promise card the drive will appear in the Device Manager as SCSI not
IDE, this is normal behavior (Why, I don't know but this is the way they appear). The origianl
posters motherboard may have an imbedded controller chipset that may do the same thing as I have
seen many motherboard with a promise chip on the board itself. 

-- 
Dave Vair
CNE, CNA, MCP, A+, N+
Computer Education Services Corp. (CESC)
"BAR" <BAR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:15D4FD39-564F-425F-9ACA-942BFF50CCA0@microsoft.com...
> IDE stands for Integrated Drive Electronics. This refers to a type of hard
> disk drive and thus an interface [or connector] for that type of device.
>
> SCSI stands for Small Computer Systems Interface. This refers to a type of
> hard disk drive and thus an interface [or connector] for that type of device.
>
> AN IDE device cannot connect to a SCSI interface and vice versa.
>
> There is no way BIOS or Windows could confuse the two device types.
>
> A SCSI disk drive typically has a faster data transfer rate compared with an
> IDE drive of the same time period.  As with IDE [EIDE] both standards have
> seen increases in performance since their introduction.
>
> SCSI disks are standard in most 'intel' Servers and RISC servers and Apple
> PCs!
>
>
>
> "Sleepless in Seattle" wrote:
>
>> It is NOT referring the physical interface BUT rather the commands
>> controlling the device.
>>
>> -- 
>> Jonah
>> "Gary" <toemagic@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:ufKaJgD%23EHA.3376@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> >I have 2 hard drives and 2 cd drives and all are IDE. But when I look at
>> >the properties of all 4 drives they all say SCSI.
>> > I have the usual set up HD1 is in location 0 primary master HD2 is in
>> > location 1 primary slave
>> > CD1 is in location 0 secondary master CD2 is in location 1 secondary
>> > slave.
>> >
>> > Is this something I should worry about? I thought IDE is better than SCSI?
>> > Does anyone know how I can change them back to IDE?
>> >
>> > thanks
>> >
>> > Gary
>> >
>>
>>
>>

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