SATA hard drive hot-swapping . . .
- From: "Stan Shankman" <stantheman@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:14:47 -0700
Greetings all,
I would like to hear from people that are hot-swapping SATA drives.
And I'm not talking about RAID configurations either.
It seems that the various motherboards (Southbridge drives) and controllers
behave differently insofar as there SATA hot-swap capabilities go.
Some people (including myself) have been able to hot-swap SATA drives
without one iota of input to the operating system.
But others (possibly nForce chipsets) are presented with a "safe removal"
icon in the system tray - much like a USB device.
My SATA setup:
bunch of Samsung SATA 3.0Gb/s drives (Jumpered to appear as 1.5Gb/s)
Asus A7V600 mobo (with two SATA 1.5Gb/s ports)
VIA vt8237 Southbridge
Windows XP Pro
I was able to successfully remove my drives and plug in different ones for
several months. But now, I started getting "Delayed Write Failed" notices
and Check Disk wants to run after a fresh boot. But it was not always that
way. It used to work well - something changed - as if at one time XP Pro
realized the drives were removable and disabled the write-cache but now,
mysteriously, I started getting these errors. Could the write-cache be back
on?
I am just trying to figure out what is going on.
Thanks all,
- Stan Shankman
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