Help installing DVDRW drive please

Hi all. I'm new here so excuse me starting with a request for help!
I'm not an expert but usually manage to get by one way or another but this had got me stumped!

I've just bought a Pioneer PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-115D. I connected it with ad IDE cable and rebooted. It showed up ok on the bootup screen but it seems to be registering as a SCSI device for some reason.

Imageburn shows it as 'PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-115D 1.18 (SCSI)
nero shows the same but with IDE at the end.
Device manager says 'PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-115D SCSI cd-rom' device.
My motherboard is an MSI ms7357.
I've changed the IDE cable and its still the same. It wont burn dvd's or cd's.
Why would it be showing as SCSI?
Help!!!

Are you running a hard drive on the same cable or is it the only device? If you have an ide drive on the same cable that should be mastered at the end with the dvd drive's jumper set to slave on the center position. For a stand alone set it to master at the end of the cable.

PC eye said:

Are you running a hard drive on the same cable or is it the only device? If you have an ide drive on the same cable that should be mastered at the end with the dvd drive's jumper set to slave on the center position. For a stand alone set it to master at the end of the cable.

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thanks but Ive sorted it out now. I got new pc with vista installed but installed xp pro. I think it must have been one of the drivers I updated for xp before I installed dvdrw. no manual with computer so had loads of hassle trying to identify components to get drivers.
But sorted now thanks.

not to be rude, but that was the WRONG fix for that problem, we could of had you working in a few mins, instead of you buying a brand new computer, (can i have the old one?)

pc-tech said:

not to be rude, but that was the WRONG fix for that problem, we could of had you working in a few mins, instead of you buying a brand new computer, (can i have the old one?)

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We now know how you got that computer in your sig

... all three

Damn! Seriously??? Who would give away a 2.8GHz P4??

would you like to hear the backround sory?

pc-tech said:

would you like to hear the backround sory?

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Sure! But PM it to me

pc-tech said:

not to be rude, but that was the WRONG fix for that problem, we could of had you working in a few mins, instead of you buying a brand new computer, (can i have the old one?)

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For one the OS was changed on an already new pc there. The ide cable was also changed. The first step is to see if the drive was plugged in correctly then advise right clicking on the drive's listing in the DM for selecting the uninstall option there and rebooting the system to have XP Pro redetect the new drive.

Hopefully the drive wasn't plugged in while the system was running by the description plugging it in and rebooting. You never add any internal drive while the system is powered up.

PC eye said:

For one the OS was changed on an already new pc there. The ide cable was also changed. The first step is to see if the drive was plugged in correctly then advise right clicking on the drive's listing in the DM for selecting the uninstall option there and rebooting the system to have XP Pro redetect the new drive.

Hopefully the drive wasn't plugged in while the system was running by the description plugging it in and rebooting. You never add any internal drive while the system is powered up.

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The drive was connected correctly. There is only one IDE slot on the mobo. The existing dvdrw and hard drive are connected by SATA (or PATA whichever it is with those little plug things!). I DID uninstall it several times in the hope that it would detect it but the usual 'detected new hardware' dialogue never appeared (although it had obviously installed it as kept appearimg in DM but always as a SCSI cd-rom device).
Since gone back to my XP Pro and the fresh install picked it up correctly as an IDE drive with no problems. I think I must have somehow installed the wrong IDE/SCSI/RAID drivers (you know, all those obscure ones). I have just updated the sound/vga/usb2/network drivers and it is fine so I think it must have been one of the drivers previously mentioned.
And YES, it was all plugged in whilst switched off, and with and earthing strap worn! (Ok the earthing strap was a LIE BUT IT WAS SWITCHED OFF).

I never had a "found new hardware" popup when installing a new OD.

PATA, ATA, IDE are basically all the same. SATA is just SATA.

You can understand the plugging in and then rebooting expression raising question there. You may inadvertently seen chipset or sata controller drivers for the wrong version of Windows go on if not for another board. That will gum up the works a bit.

I saw that one here when the MS update believe it or not actually downloaded a set of Vista drivers while I was booted in XP! Lately I noticed Creative finally got around to correcting their own goof seen on their support site mixing Vista updates when selecting XP as the version.