Microsoft KB Archive/156205

= SMS: Windows NT Inventory Agent Detects ATAPI Drives as SCSI =

Article ID: 156205

Article Last Modified on 10/27/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Systems Management Server 1.1 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Systems Management Server 1.2 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q156205



SYMPTOMS
When a Windows NT system that contains an Enhanced IDE or ATAPI drive is inventoried, the Systems Management Server (SMS) inventory report shows that it has a SCSI drive instead.



CAUSE
Windows NT uses a SCSI "wrapper" to abstract the IDE interface. This was designed so large IDE drives that exceed the standard BIOS limitations could be used with Windows NT. This also allows Windows NT to easily handle other drive interfaces that may be introduced by the industry.

When SMS hardware inventory is done on a Windows NT system, the registry is read to determine what hardware is available. Because the internal representation of the IDE interface in the Windows NT registry shows as a SCSI device for the IDE hard disk drive, SMS reports this drive as a SCSI drive to the SMS database.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Systems Management Server version 1.2. This problem has been corrected in the latest U.S. Service Pack for Microsoft Systems Management Server version 1.2. For information on obtaining the Service Pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

SERVPACK

Additional query words: prodsms

Keywords: kbhardware kbinventory KB156205

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