Re: Sata2 harddrive being read as a removable drive?
- From: John John <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:36:09 -0300
It's because SATA drives supports hot-plugging or hot-swapping. Hot plugging is the ability to remove defective drives without having to shut down the computer, a very useful feature in mission critical computer like servers for example, a drive that is failing can be removed without having to shutdown the machine and throw thousands of users off line even if only for 5 minutes. Before you hot-swap a drive however you have to tell Windows to eject it, that is why the Safely Remove Hardware icon is showing. Even though the icon shows for the boot drive you can't eject the Windows drive, try it and see. It works for storage drives.
John
Ax wrote:
I am experiencing the same thing with a WD Caviar SATA HD. I haven't found that there are any problems running the system. I accidentally selected the drive for removal a time or two, but Windows won't allow it (fortunately.) Nothing in my Bios to remove the SRH, but I can live with it since nothing is going wrong. Thank you for your input..
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