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

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?

"Kram" <bb@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:Q9udnXmvY-7D-b_bnZ2dnUVZ_rbinZ2d@comcast.com...
> 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