I just finished putting together my new system, based on an Asus P5B Deluxe (P965/ICH8R). I have a SATA hotswap bay and after I got the OS loaded, I popped in my old boot drive (74GB Raptor, which has hot-swapped successfully before), and it wasn't recognized. Rebooted, and there's the drive. Popped it out after the reboot, and the old drive letters are still there rather than it knowing that the drive has disappeared and the drive letters going away. I installed the (non-RAID, since I'm not running RAID) drivers from the mobo CD and then ran the INF undater from Intel's site.
For those of you who are about to flame me for expecting hot-swap on a desktop system, I regularly work with large (>300GB) amounts of data. I take a hot-swap drive in to work to get the data so I can also work on it at home (which is where I work 80% of them time). Also, the A8N-SLI that this P5B replaced has hot-swap capability and it's over a year old, so I don't feel that it's too much to expect from a brand new $175 motherboard.
Doesn't the P965/ICH8R have hotswap capabilities?
Thanks
Pete
For those of you who are about to flame me for expecting hot-swap on a desktop system, I regularly work with large (>300GB) amounts of data. I take a hot-swap drive in to work to get the data so I can also work on it at home (which is where I work 80% of them time). Also, the A8N-SLI that this P5B replaced has hot-swap capability and it's over a year old, so I don't feel that it's too much to expect from a brand new $175 motherboard.
Doesn't the P965/ICH8R have hotswap capabilities?
Thanks
Pete
