Why does SATA create RAID and SCSI entries in Device Manager?

13 Mar 2005 6:39 PM

Bobby

I installed a SATA hard disk recently and Device Manager now reports a RAID
driver (I don't have a RAID drive) and a SCSI driver (I don't have a SCSI
drive).

I thought SATA was ATA 150 so what's this SCSI stuff? And what had RAID to
do with SATA?

Bobby

13 Mar 2005 10:09 PM

kony

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 18:39:48 -0000, "Bobby"
<bo***@europe.com> wrote:

>I installed a SATA hard disk recently and Device Manager now reports a RAID
>driver (I don't have a RAID drive) and a SCSI driver (I don't have a SCSI
>drive).
>
>I thought SATA was ATA 150 so what's this SCSI stuff? And what had RAID to
>do with SATA?
>
>Bobby
>

WIndows has two ways of handling drive controllers, either
it's a PATA, or it's something else that needs a driver.
Any "something else" is called SCSI by windows.

The controller is capable of RAID, hence it's a RAID
controller regardless of whether you have RAIDed drives or
not.

18 Mar 2005 12:22 PM

Geir Klemetsen

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"kony" <spam@spam.com> skrev i melding
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> On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 18:39:48 -0000, "Bobby"
> <bo***@europe.com> wrote:
>
> >I installed a SATA hard disk recently and Device Manager now reports a
RAID
> >driver (I don't have a RAID drive) and a SCSI driver (I don't have a SCSI
> >drive).
> >
> >I thought SATA was ATA 150 so what's this SCSI stuff? And what had RAID
to
> >do with SATA?
> >
> >Bobby
> >
>
>
> WIndows has two ways of handling drive controllers, either
> it's a PATA, or it's something else that needs a driver.
> Any "something else" is called SCSI by windows.

Also a typical example is external harddrives.

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> The controller is capable of RAID, hence it's a RAID
> controller regardless of whether you have RAIDed drives or
> not.

14 Mar 2005 1:31 PM

Rudy Kazuti

My BIOS allows me to enable SATA drivers and also the onboard RAID drivers.
I disabled RAID and everything works fine. Takes longer to boot when RAID is
enabled and I don't use it anyway.
Rudy
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"Bobby" <bo***@europe.com> wrote in message
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> I installed a SATA hard disk recently and Device Manager now reports a
RAID
> driver (I don't have a RAID drive) and a SCSI driver (I don't have a SCSI
> drive).
>
> I thought SATA was ATA 150 so what's this SCSI stuff? And what had RAID to
> do with SATA?
>
> Bobby
>
>