A8N-SLI Deluxe SATA3 Problem

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No problem. SATA3 supports removable drives. My SCSI 320 servers have
the same icon because those drives are hot swappable.

It's not a problem, it is a feature. You can connect your SATA drives
internally, or externally. Some folks temporarily connect these drives
outside the case just like they would a USB flash drive.

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Normal.
SATA drives are supposed to show as removable, as they are hot swapable.
My SATA drives do the same.

<prosko@verizon.net> wrote in message
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>I build a system using this board and an eval copy of Windows XP Pro 64.
> Downloaded all the latest 64 bit drivers from Asus and Nvidia.
>
> As part of the initial build, Windows was loaded on a old 15GB drive
> (PATA)
> attached to the IDE1 as Master, and everything went very well. Then after
> receiving a SATA Western Digital Raptor, the operating system was copied
> to
> the Raptor and the system booted perfectly using the new drive. The system
> recognized the new drive and then indicated a reboot was required. This is
> as expected, all well and good.
>
> But then I noticed a small green arrow/device icon on the right side of
> the
> Task Bar. This usually appears when a USB Flash Drive is plugged into a
> USB
> port. So I right-clicked on the icon and the dialogue box displayed the
> Western Digital Hard Drive as a removable hard drive!
>
> Has anyone else see this? I suppose it is probably a driver problem which
> may be solved over time as the 64 bit version of Windows evolves.
>
> Please let me know if others have seen this problem, and if so were they
> able to solve it.
>
> Thanks.