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Smart data reading, and sata drives recognized as scsi in XP problem

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First of all, I searched.Found nothing that could solve my problem.

And the problem is:

I have two hard disks in my PC: A Samsung Spinpoint, and a Seagate Barracuda. Both are SATA disks, the spinpoint being SATA II and the Seagate being a SATA I.

Anyway, my copy of Windows XP detects them as SCSI disks. Which they are not.

Also, if I try to use HD tune, Speedfan or any similar program to read S.M.A.R.T. data, or firmware information, I can only get the information for the Samsung,except in Lavalys Everest, which reads the firmware and type information for both discs but still can read the SMART data only from the samsung.


My relevant pc specifications:

Motherboard: ASRock AM2XLI-ESATA2
CPU: AMD Athlon X2 6000+
HDD1 Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 ST3160211AS
HDD2: Samsung Spinpoint S HD161HJ

I hope there is someone who could help me out .



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Windows reads SATA as SCSI. It is normal. Bill Gates is not known for his spelling. :)

Cannot help with the Smart thing as I have no experience with Samsung drives.

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