Problems hot plugging SATA drives
From: Christopher Smith (ChristopherSmith_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/23/04
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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:49:02 -0700
I have a Windows 2003 server using an intel SE7210TP1-E motherboard (
http://www.intel.com/design/servers/boards/SE7210TP1-E/index.htm?iid=ipp_srvr_mthrbds+se7210tp1e_srvr& ).
The main drive is a 3ware 9500S-4LP running a RAID5 of 4x200GB disks. We
are also trying to use a pair of 200GB SATA drives attached to the
motherboard's onboard SATA controllers as backup devices.
Unfortunately it's not going as smoothly as I had hoped. dr I was counting
on being able to hotswap the SATA backup drives (in removable SATA disk
carriers) in much the same way as being able to hotswap USB disks - plug it
in and the drive automatically mounts somewhere and just 'stop' the device to
swap it out. Unfortunately the reality is that I have to manually go into
Device Manager and 'disable' a disk decide if I want to remove it and, to add
in a fresh drive, I not only need to 'Enable' it in Device Manager again, but
I also then need to go into Disk Management and 'Reactivate' (or sometimes
'Import') the disk before it is mounted. To matters worse, sometimes the
disk won't 'Enable" correctly or Disk Manager refuses to recognise the
partitions on the disk until the machine is rebooted. Added to that, any
number of minor mistakes in the swapping procedure (eg: accidentally trying
to enable the drive before it finishes spinning up) makes the device
disappear from Device Manager and completely inaccessible without a reboot
("Detect hardware changes" doesn't work).
My backup plan - putting the disks into USB carriers was foiled by the
complete lack of any USB <-> SATA external drive boxes on the market (at
least in Australia). Which makes sense, given SATA is supposed to be
completely hot pluggable as standard. More fool me for not checking that out
beforehand.
Is anyone succesfully hot-plugging SATA drives on Windows 2003 ? Is there
any trick to getting Windows 2003 to treat a removable SATA disk exactly the
same way it treats a removable USB disk ? Is there some secret hotfix
available that fixes this issue ?
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