NForce2 Hard Drive Performance Booster - makes all your IDE drives appear as SCSI?

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 8:14 am

I was going through my device manager settings and found that I have an ST3MP28 SCSI Controller device (I have not physical SCSI controller). Did some research and found this explanation on a board after a google search:

Hehe.......with the latest Nforce 2 Drivers it asks u whether u want to install some kind of Hard drive booster thingo type thang cant remember the name......it makes all your drives appear as SCSI......reinstall the drivers and when the question comes up say no :P..... older versions of Nero dont seem to like this thing

First I've heard of this. I'm considering disabling it but I wanted some opinions. Anyone familiar with this?

VidmanII · Post by **VidmanII** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 9:14 am

yep.

When installing nforce2 drivers just select "no" when asked if you want to use their ( nvidia's ) IDE driver. If you've already installed it, you'll have to uninstall the entire chipset driver, then reinstall and select "no" to the IDE question.

buddhazen · Post by **buddhazen** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 11:59 am

i have the sw driver installed on my other pc
although i dont have any problems with it??
should i really uninstall it?

RubberDuckie · Post by **RubberDuckie** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 1:37 pm

I have always installed it and never had any problems.
I use NERO also

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 5:37 pm

I dont have any HD's on my ide controler. just cdroms.

That shoudl be fine right?

Greg

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 7:52 pm

Same as Greg here - my HDD is on an add-on Promise controller. CD and DVD burner only on the internal and no problems.

TruckStuff · Post by **TruckStuff** » Sat Jan 10, 2004 9:23 am

I'll throw in my .02, although I'm not entirely sure its relevant to this thread.

When I was setting up my new rig two weeks ago (Epox 8RDA3+ w/ nVidia nForce2 chipset), I was installing the chipset drivers and it asked me if I wanted to install some sort of advanced IDE thing (don't remember the details now, but it sounds similar to this). I said yes, it installed, then asked me to reboot. After I rebooted, my XP install was hosed. BSODed everytime it started to load, and safe mode wouldn't boot either. When I ran the XP repair utility, it deleted a bunch of files, basically reinstalled the entire OS, then all was normal again. Needless to say, I didn't try installing those chipset drivers again.

For what its worth, I only have a Lite-On burner on my IDE controller and I user Nero. I DON'T have that "SCSI controller" in my device manager. Like I said, don't know if its related, but I thought I'd throw it out.