SATA HDD Removable problems

[Zepper]

Yes if you have a controller that supports eSATA and hot-swap then your SATA drives connected to it will appear as removable because they are.

However, I have one attached to such a controller that is my C: drive and will never be removed. So I would like to be able to set that one drive as non-removable so that Write caching won't be disabled for it. The other port on my controller is hardwired to an eSATA connector so I would like that to remain as removable.

Is there any way to do that (assuming the above technique - editing the registry entry for the controller driver to change the Removable attribute to disabled - would render both ports non-removable)?

.bh.

 

[avi85]

Originally posted by: Zepper
Yes if you have a controller that supports eSATA and hot-swap then your SATA drives connected to it will appear as removable because they are.

However, I have one attached to such a controller that is my C: drive and will never be removed. So I would like to be able to set that one drive as non-removable so that Write caching won't be disabled for it. The other port on my controller is hardwired to an eSATA connector so I would like that to remain as removable.

Is there any way to do that (assuming the above technique - editing the registry entry for the controller driver to change the Removable attribute to disabled - would render both ports non-removable)?

.bh.

I had the same thing in XP but when in vista I don't have the option to remove the C drive.
I just thought that I'd mention it.