Weird.Weird.Weird

[randsom]

Weird issue with my friend Vista.

Vista is seeing my 2 sata Samsung 18x dvd burners as scsi cd rom drives
Theyre performance is terrible

Anybody have a fix for this. or is there even a fix


thanx

[djnes]

Sounds like a chipset driver issue. Do you have the proper Nvidia chipset drivers loaded?

[randsom]

latest chipset and raid drivers,

I may try a reformat, sice there is nothing on on here anyways.

[randsom]

nobdy has any idea

[Burning_Monk]

tried uninstalling them and letting windows find them again?

[randsom]

yep, first thing i tried

[Maxx]

SATA is commonly seen as SCSI by Windows, but DVD-RW drives should be in IDE mode over SATA without the SATA controller driver installed (if necessary) so they show up (and hopefully act) normally.

[djnes]

I'll have to check my system tonight. I just reloaded Vista Ultimate x64, and set my BIOS to use AHCI mode. I'm wondering if maybe that would cause my SATA drives to show up as SCSI.

[Catweazle]

Sounds like a chipset driver issue. Do you have the proper Nvidia chipset drivers loaded?
Thoroughly agree.

I have two SATA RAID controllers in my own rig - one is Silicone Image and the other Nvidia - and I recently added a Pioneer SATA burner. There is no way known the burner would identify correctly when attached to the Silicone Image controller! Matter of fact, I stuffed around so much enabling/disabling controllers, changing drives around and installing new drivers that I ended up blowing out Windows activation in an effort to get it working!

In the end I simply accepted that my particular SI controller was only going to be suitable for use with hard drives, and connected the burner to the Nvidia controller, where it worked fine. Wasn't my preference, but there ya go! If your burner isn't a goer on your controller, it'd be best to contact the people responsible for the controller driver!

[SippieCup]

do you have an nvidia chipset?


you mgiht need to install the drivers for the sata drives, same thing happend with me for my asus m2n-sli deluxe.

[randsom]

well, i kinsda got it fixed

Reformatted, setup my raid, did the load driver thing and voila, my raid drivers are there, my sata drivers loaded and controllers finally showed up, the burners are now still sata of course, but are actually on the ide controller, but still are being seing seen and identified by windows as scsi, but are at least twice as fast

So i am just satisfied they are now properly working.