Removable drives

[optimist]

i had a plan the get a tray so i could have a couple og hdds to swap between, just like CD's and floppys, and so i did.
now the question is .. how do i get windows to "see" it as a removable drive and not as a normal HDD.
but the properties\policies (write caching and safe removal) for the drive is grayed out. .. how do i enable it

 

[sjonnie]

You have the drive attached to a hot-swap capable controller?

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[optimist]

i have it connected to my onboard VIA SATA RAID controler, dont know if its supports HOT SWAP, but i whould guess it does

 

[Crashman]

One of the superior features of 9x (preferably 98SE) was that you could set ANY hard drive as removable and swap them using a standard drive rack (one without any gadgets). SATA is supposed to eventually add that capability to XP, but I'm not sure all the standards for that are in place yet.

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[optimist]

ok .. i can however remove the drive and reinsert it without windows crashing .. but that might result i data loss if there is something still in the cache, so .. is there a program out there that might be able to either disable cache for the hdd or enable a safe removable button for it ?

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by optimist on 09/19/04 08:19 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[Crashman]

Windows has a utility for doing that, but doesn't recognise your disk as removable...and I'm not certain the controller is up to the task of making it removable, configuring disk on the fly. You're up for some research.

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