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Hard drive information not correct? (shows SCSI instead of SATA)




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Old 30th May 2009, 06:02
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I have what I believe to be a hitachi deskstar 1TB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822145167 thats running sata to my computer. but the device manager says that its hitachi HDS721010LKA SCSI disk device. Why does it say its SCSI when its connected by a sata wire (it also has a IDE port but its definitely not SCSI). Also I cannot get SMART information about my device(because of the above?). That means that it does not show up on speedfan and the everest hd utility. Anyone have the same problem and how did they solve it? Thanks for reading and any advice would be appreciated.

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Old 30th May 2009, 09:06
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When connecting a SATA device in BIOS you hve two options:

SCSI mode
IDE mode

Both are SATA. IDE mode is used if you need to boot Windows XP.
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Old 30th May 2009, 13:29
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Sorry, I got that wrong actually.

It's IDE and AHCPI modes.

But it still doesn't matter that it's SCSI, it still "knows" it's SATA, SCSI is just a broader category extending beyond just SATA HDD's.
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