"Safely Remove Hardware" on K8N Neo Platinum

[CdnAtWork]

Just finished setting up my board and i'm getting an annoying little icon in my taskbar - "safely remove hardware". Both of my sata drives are listed in there. Anyone know what the scoop is? are they "hot swapable" (seem to recall someone mentioning that somewhere). Is there a way to not have that icon constantly be there?

Thanks for any input folks and have a great weekend!
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[ArmenK]

If they are hot swapable and you are using Windows XP you can force hide the icon... right click on on the task bar or start menu, click on properties. In the Taskbar tab check Hide Inactive Icons and then click on Customize next to it, change settings as needed.

 

[jjlawren]

Sure this works, but for those of us that HATE the 'Hide Inactive Icons' feature, I'd love to hear a different fix.

 

[EngenZerO]

thats the fix I have been using since I recieved the mobo,

 

[FiberoN]

Yeah, I'm getting the same icon for my Seagate SATA drive. Hopefullly a BIOS revisioin will fix that. And one more thing, after the computer being on for about a day and I try to go online or what not, the internet is SLLOOOOOOOWWWWW... even Trillian won't connect. I restart the pc and it runs fine. I don't know what is up here.

 

[jjlawren]

Yeah, I really don't know if it's the firewall or not, but something like this happens to me, too. I'm trying to figure out what is causing it now.

 

[Odeen]

Originally posted by: ArmenK
If they are hot swapable and you are using Windows XP you can force hide the icon... right click on on the task bar or start menu, click on properties. In the Taskbar tab check Hide Inactive Icons and then click on Customize next to it, change settings as needed.

SATA is technically hot-swappable. That's why the "ground" lines on SATA power and data cables are "longer" - that way the devices are grounded before any voltage goes anywhere. Finally, a real SATA implementation

Does Windows XP treat NF3-250GB SATA as fake SCSI (a.la Via VT8327 SATA and PCI SATA chips), or do the drives appear as IDE?