Safely Remove your Local Drives?!?!

[Dynamo]

Hi all,

My rig is a Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra-9, with a SATA Barracuda 7200.7 NCQ 160GB S150 HDD. Running XP Pro.

The problem I have, well more like an irritation is that the drive (the only one, set up as 2 partitions) is listed as a drive I can remove.

In My Computer the partitions are listed normally as local drives. However in the taskbar (near the time) is the Safely Remove Hardware Icon. Clicking this lists my HDD as removable Hardware - however clicking it does nothing as the HDD is in use.

Why is my local HDD listed as removable hardware? Anyone know how to tell the OS that the disk is there to stay?

Thanks for any help.

 

[Ned_Flanders]

Sata drivers are hot-swappable. Meaning then can be added / taken away from the OS on the fly. Your system drive cannot for obvious reasons though.

Everything is functioning correctly.

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[Crashman]

That's an SATA2 specification, my SATA1 hardware doesn't support the feature (or at least, the latest drivers for my SATA1 hardware don't).

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[Ned_Flanders]

Mine does - Sounds like a driver problem.

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[Guest]

7200.9 are SATA-II and even this drive does'nt appear to support Hot-wap!
I doubt the 7200.7 support hot-swap... it actually should'nt!

I already had a drive recognized as removable medi, but that was back with win98, I think I solved it with a clean install!


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[Crashman]

My SATA1 drives are hot-swappable on SATA2 controllers, but not SATA1 controllers.

I do have SATA2-150 controllers as well: nVidia chipsets designed to support SATA2 with 300 transfers are artificially limitted to 150 in the lower-priced versions of the same chipset.

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[Guest]

oh, that is intersting. I was wondering to what extend Hot-Swap is linked to the drive itself.
I guess that answers the question!

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[Crashman]

You could set old 40-pin ATA drives as hot-swappable in Win98, but since BIOS couldn't detect drive changes, you had to swap in an identicle drive. I used that feature with a cheap drive rack to quick-format identical drives on my own PC for my refurbed PC's.

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[Ned_Flanders]

How so?

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