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GA 965GM S2 DVD Burner shows as removable
Greetings,
Gigabyte GA-965GMS2 MB. 1st time using SATA devices. Asus DRW 814 SATA DVD Burner Western Digital 1500ADFD 10,000 SATA hard drive these are the only two drives I have installed, no raid. Asus DRW shows up as a removable drive in xpsp2. In Device Manager it shows as a SCSI CD Rom device. I suspect I installed them incorrectly. I just plugged them into the sata slots on the motherboard (there are 6). Or do I have a setting wrong in the BIOS? Thanks, Mark |
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GA 965GM S2 DVD Burner shows as removable
Figured it out, it does make a difference where you plug in an SATA device.
I had one plugged into the GSA port (Purple) and the other plugged into the regular SATA port (Yellow) now both are plugged into the yellow plugins. Only became clear after googling and finding several explanations, with photos. Not so clear with the manual. Asus DRW 814 SATA DVD Burner Western Digital 1500ADFD 10,000 SATA hard drive these are the only two drives I have installed, no raid. Asus DRW shows up as a removable drive in xpsp2. In Device Manager it shows as a SCSI CD Rom device. I suspect I installed them incorrectly. I just plugged them into the sata slots on the motherboard (there are 6). Or do I have a setting wrong in the BIOS? |
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GA 965GM S2 DVD Burner shows as removable
"Kram" wrote in message ... Figured it out, it does make a difference where you plug in an SATA device. I had one plugged into the GSA port (Purple) and the other plugged into the regular SATA port (Yellow) now both are plugged into the yellow plugins. Only became clear after googling and finding several explanations, with photos. Not so clear with the manual. Asus DRW 814 SATA DVD Burner Western Digital 1500ADFD 10,000 SATA hard drive these are the only two drives I have installed, no raid. Asus DRW shows up as a removable drive in xpsp2. In Device Manager it shows as a SCSI CD Rom device. I suspect I installed them incorrectly. I just plugged them into the sata slots on the motherboard (there are 6). Or do I have a setting wrong in the BIOS? However there was nothing really 'wrong' with what it was showing before. In NT, W2K, and XP, _anything_ attached via a controller that is not 'native' (requires an add-on driver), is shown as 'SCSI'. If you add a plug in IDE RAID controller, the drives on this are shown as 'SCSI'. This part, is a problem of Windows 'nomenclature', rather than a real problem. The 'purple' ports are basically just such a conroller, built into the board. However many of these controllers, don't support devices other than HD's. It sounds as if the one on your board, supports 'CD' devices,but possibly doesn't know how to report DVD devices properly. Best Wishes |
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