S-ATA drive = systen tray icon

[mark]

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Is there any way to remove the "safely remove hardware" icon in the system
tray that comes as a result of using a SATA HDD.

I'm one of those people who hates icons dominating my system tray.

 

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"mark" <mark@localhost.com> wrote in message
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| Is there any way to remove the "safely remove hardware" icon in the system
| tray that comes as a result of using a SATA HDD.
|
| I'm one of those people who hates icons dominating my system tray.

Mine does not show on the list when the icon is left-clicked, but only the
active firewire drives. My SATA is connected to an on-chip controller
(ICH5R) and is recognized in the bios, while the FW drives are not. Is
yours connected to a PCI or on-board (not on-chip) controller?

 

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> Is there any way to remove the "safely remove hardware" icon in the system
> tray that comes as a result of using a SATA HDD.
>
> I'm one of those people who hates icons dominating my system tray.

I guess that's a manufacturer specific feature as our SATA interface
certainly doesn't do that.

Cheers, Rob.

 

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"Rob Nicholson" <rob.nicholson@NOSPAM_informed-direct.com> wrote in message news:co2f4d$3nt$1@titan.btinternet.com
> > Is there any way to remove the "safely remove hardware" icon in the system
> > tray that comes as a result of using a SATA HDD.
> >
> > I'm one of those people who hates icons dominating my system tray.
>
> I guess that's a manufacturer specific feature as our SATA interface
> certainly doesn't do that.

Maybe he set it to 'removable' in Device Manager and forgot about it?

>
> Cheers, Rob.