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I'm building my second computer and I got Thermaltake Chasar MK - I case and a ASUS M5A97 R2.0 Motherboard. I have been reading through the manuals and said that I need the divers for so I can do hot swapping hdds. I look through asus' website and couldn't find the drivers or the info about it. Need help please.
 
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I assume you are speaking of the top hotswap bay on the case. I would imagine the drives are SATA and connecting either through a SATA on the MB or a USB connection. Most eSATA controllers generally allow for hotswapping by default. I do it all the time for drives I am wiping with a USB adapter, but have done it straight in cases as well.

There is also a program called Hotswap! or something like that to help you manage them, but I never use it and just unplug and plug devices when I need to.
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If you are using RAID 1 or RAID 5 it is called hot swapping. If SATA3 hard drives are not set for RAID, it is called "hot plug". You can not perform hot plug if the OS is installed on that drive.

The AMD AHCI compatible RAID driver is found here.
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/raid_windows.aspx#2

The driver folder you need is probably named SB850 as there is no different RAID driver for SB950. It will ask you where to install the files when you click on the zip file. This will just extract the compressed file to a folder of your choosing. Cancel the AMD catalyst install manager when it pops up and peruse the folders you've extracted.

The non-RAID AMD AHCI driver is found in the Chipset Package.
 
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I assume you are speaking of the top hotswap bay on the case. I would imagine the drives are SATA and connecting either through a SATA on the MB or a USB connection. Most eSATA controllers generally allow for hotswapping by default. I do it all the time for drives I am wiping with a USB adapter, but have done it straight in cases as well.

There is also a program called Hotswap! or something like that to help you manage them, but I never use it and just unplug and plug devices when I need to.
 
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You got right with the top hotswap bay on the top of the case and it connects to SATA port on the MB. Would you need drivers for to use the bay or not or they already install in the MB since this not going to had RAID drives for the bay?
 
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Not real sure being as I dont have anything special on any machines and I plug and unplug all the time. However, these are generally (no always) drives I am wiping and dont care about if I loss something (but never have). Worse case scenario get that HotSwap! utility and it is like the add/remove device thing that runs in your system try letting you scan for drives you attach to it and/or safely remove them.
 
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