Right on, Mr. Vair, i had this very same unusual situation in XP when I
hooked my IDE to the connector..... It took me forever to get an
explanation. Nice to know there are knowledgeable people like yourself to
very simply explain this anomaly; it was an a7v Asus board I had awhile back
as I remember it...

"David Vair" wrote in message
...
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" wrote in message
...
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" wrote in message
...
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