Help, dvd-rom shows up as scsi

mohoshin · 8 Nov 2006 at 10:10

Guys, please help me, i have a new Abit AB9 motherboard and installed the JMicron sata drivers, Intel chipset drivers and the Silicon Image sata drivers.
I have a Pioneer dvd-rw and a Pioner dvd-rom connected to one Ide cable, while my sata hard drive is connected to Sata1.
Bios shows neither of them on bootup accept the harddrive. In Windows XP i can see drive E: is My Pioneer dvd-rom but it says it is SCSI!
I cannot access it and it gives me the message " E:\ is not accesible, the request could not be performed because of an i/o device error".
PLease help me resolve this as it is driving me crazy.

xirokx · 8 Nov 2006 at 10:13

dont worry it just have to be activated I believe....i remember someone else having a similar prob.....argggggghhh those abit boards with conroe setups grrrr

trouble is i cant remember the solution, try calling OCUK for a quick fix.....i think you have to update the bios....im not 100% sure tho....try the motherboards section....

sorry dude

rpstewart · 8 Nov 2006 at 10:16

If neither drive is showing in the BIOS I'd be starting with checking the master/slave jumpers on the back of each drive. If both are at slave then neither will be detected, you need one master and one slave.

harris1986 · 8 Nov 2006 at 12:19

have you tried installing any drivers for the individual drive?

mohoshin · 8 Nov 2006 at 13:14

Thanks guys, i realised that both drives were set to slave

Now both drive's are working in windows as normal, however they are still showing up as SCSI drives! Also the bios does not show the drives however the black screen where the JMicron driver details load up, list the 2 drives.
I noticed my windows loading bar takes up a long time to load now around 30 seconds when normally it takes 10-15, any ideas whats wrong?

rpstewart · 8 Nov 2006 at 18:00

The IDE port on that board is driven by the JMicron controller rather than the Intel Southbridge, which is a little odd but that's Abit's choice. Windows will bundle any additional storage controllers under the SCSI banner regardless of the protocol they actually use, it's a historical hangover and nothing to really worry about.

The boot time increase will likely be due to Windows now loading drivers for the JMicron controller and then itialising it and the devices attached etc. Unfortunately there's not much that you'll be able to do about this unless you invest in SATA optical devices and run them off one of SATA1-6.

mohoshin · 8 Nov 2006 at 18:36

rpstewart said:
The IDE port on that board is driven by the JMicron controller rather than the Intel Southbridge, which is a little odd but that's Abit's choice. Windows will bundle any additional storage controllers under the SCSI banner regardless of the protocol they actually use, it's a historical hangover and nothing to really worry about.

The boot time increase will likely be due to Windows now loading drivers for the JMicron controller and then itialising it and the devices attached etc. Unfortunately there's not much that you'll be able to do about this unless you invest in SATA optical devices and run them off one of SATA1-6.

cool thanks for the info, at least they are both working. I guess i will wait till sata-blueray or HD-dvdrom's are available.