Hard drive Question

[apex1x]

I am curious.... I have an IDE Samsung SV4002H hard drive in windows XP Pro, yet in the device manager it displays the device as Samsung Sv4002H SCSI disk drive.
I believe this may have to do with some slow downs and errors "The semaphore timeout period has expired." under certain applications/games.
Any "tek-tips" for me? =) ~Apex1x
Miller's Law:
You can't tell how deep a puddle is until you step into it.

 

[gargouille]

Download the free utility from belarc.com and see what it says you have on your system.
Something's rotten in Denmark, isn't it?

 

[gargouille]

Are you using 80-pin connector cable? (usually has 1 blue end)
What driver is shown for it? Tried letting the system search for a new 1?

 

[bluescreen77]

Type your Mobo...

 

[apex1x]

I have the A7V Mobo.
I am using ATA100 and yes, it has one blue end (needed it for the ATA). It is 40 pins (otherwise it wouldn't fit on the back of the drive), but I needed to get this one specially ordered because the previous cable didn't allow for.... it was either 40 or 80 conductor.
Control panel says there is the VIA controller for the hard drives, the primary and secondary controllers, and the actual device itself says "Sv4002H SCSI disk drive".
This is a 5400 RMP drive (40 gigs) and so I was surprised that I get such bad speed with writing (I benchmarked it at 2.9 MB/S). Might as well mention my CPU, its an AMD Athlon 950. ~Apex1x
Miller's Law:
You can't tell how deep a puddle is until you step into it.

 

[gargouille]

Spot on, I meant 80 lead cable, careless terminology

Have you looked in Event Viewer to see if there are any clues?

My system finally clued me that the driver had found a problem with the IDE controller when I had some weirdness going on.

I'm such a dinker anyway, I'd try deleting the controller drivers and letting XP find them again. (you may have done this)

Correct busmaster drivers?

Is UDMA enabled? (if not that may account for the slow performance altho you seem thorough so you may have tried that, too) UDMA usually shows up in the BIOS, too.

Jumpers...using cable select? Tried switching it? (unlikely, too, that you've not been there, but things happen)

Anything from motherboard mfr.'s site? (like updates)

Cannot be a common problem, 'cause I haven't found it in several search attempts.

 

[apex1x]

The HD is on its own channel, set as master.
I've gotten the lastest VIA 4in1 drivers.
ATA100 is enabled in BIOS, althought I didn't see any mention of UDMA.
I've tried to force DMA on the drives in windows.
Does this 80 conductor cable make windows think the drive is SCSI??? The only reason I got the new cable was because BIOS told me to =)
I'll check out the event viewer when I get home.
I'm guessing this is a driver related issue as it has been going slower than normal since I've installed win XP.
Any other suggestions/advice would be benificial. ~Apex1x
Miller's Law:
You can't tell how deep a puddle is until you step into it.

 

[94325]

I have a same problem but mine IDE samsung CDROM.It is detecting samsung sc 148c scsi CDROM drive.I have win2k.

Does it related to samsung,actually it should not be as I did try another cdrom it is the same problem.

Trying to figure out and let you know if I got any solution.
thanks

 

[apex1x]

I found out my problem although I havn't narrowed it down too specifically. I had my HD on the ATA 100 port on my mobo. I switched the HD to an open IDE port and everything worked fine; the HD was detected as normal. I think WinXP had problems with the ATA100 device so it detected it as a SCSI device when it was on the 80 conductor cable. Either that or the cable went bad or the port on the mobo went bad. I'm getting an upgrade shortly so I'll know for sure then.
Thanks all for your suggestions. ~Apex1x
Miller's Law:
You can't tell how deep a puddle is until you step into it.