Ide Ata/atapi Controllers

[MikeWill]

Re: IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers in Device Manager

Is it normal to have several Primary, Secondary and Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controllers? I have three of each.

Here's a snapshot of my Device Manager:

P.S.

My PC is Windows XP Pro SP3, one HDD and only one DVD/CD-ROM drive.

[dave_boo]

Ummh...no; apparently the chipset presents itself as a standard dual channel device and XP then figures there's a primary and secondary...however you shouldn't have 3x of each. You should be able to delete some if it bothers you...

[Supernova]

Re: IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers in Device Manager

Is it normal to have several Primary, Secondary and Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controllers? I have three of each.

Without the proper chipset drivers installed, on-board SATA controllers are seen as IDE -- hence, the duplicate primary and secondary IDE controllers showing up in Device Manager. Installing the chipset drivers for the motherboard should fix this.

[MikeWill]

Thanks Supernova.

I get if fixed, although now I have a new icon (underlined in red) appeared in my System Tray, called Safely Remove Hardware.

Another screenshot attaced:

[Supernova]

It's perfectly normal for the Safely Remove Hardware icon to appear in the system tray after installing the nvidia IDE SW drivers.

SATA is meant to be "hot-swappable" -- meaning SATA devices can be plugged/unplugged like USB devices.

Nothing to worry about, as Windows won't allow you to "disconnect" the drive on which it is loaded (for obvious reasons).

[newtronbom]

I agree with the other posts here. Now you have updated your drivers, you seem to have a normal system. Relax.

[MikeWill]

Thank you very much.

All the best in the forthcoming 2010.