why is my hitachi sata drive recognized as a removeable drive?

[prankster]

Mt sata drive is recognized as a removeable drive. A system tray icon shows up ( the same icon when i plug jump drive). I've installed third party scsi/raid at the begining of win xp installation (by pressing f6 and load up raid controller and nvidia class driver). Do I have to configure something in at bios setup?

My mobo is MSI k8n neo4 platinum and my sata drive is Hitachi 80gb.

 

[MDE]

Nope, it's fine. The nForce4's SATA controller supports hot-swapping. My nForce3 Ultra board does the same thing with my WD Raptors.

 

[prankster]

So it's a normal issue? What if I accidentally click to remove that drive? My operating system is in that drive. THanks man! I appreciate it!

 

[prankster]

Originally posted by: MDE
Nope, it's fine. The nForce4's SATA controller supports hot-swapping. My nForce3 Ultra board does the same thing with my WD Raptors.

By the way.... What is hot swapping? I'm a newbie in kind of term...^_^...

 

[veggz]

Yes it is normal, my system does the same thing. I don't really see how you would "accidentally" remove it, as that would require a series of misguided clicks. Just try not to do it.

 

[veggz]

Originally posted by: prankster

Originally posted by: MDE
Nope, it's fine. The nForce4's SATA controller supports hot-swapping. My nForce3 Ultra board does the same thing with my WD Raptors.

By the way.... What is hot swapping? I'm a newbie in kind of term...^_^...

I believe it's just the ability to switch HD's similar to the way a removable device operates while Windows is running, but I could be wrong.

 

[MrControversial]

Originally posted by: veggz

Originally posted by: prankster

Originally posted by: MDE
Nope, it's fine. The nForce4's SATA controller supports hot-swapping. My nForce3 Ultra board does the same thing with my WD Raptors.

By the way.... What is hot swapping? I'm a newbie in kind of term...^_^...

I believe it's just the ability to switch HD's similar to the way a removable device operates while Windows is running, but I could be wrong.

You are close, but a bit deceptive. Hot-swap refers to swapping the hard drive while the system is running. You can't do it if Windows is the drive you're swapping. It's more applicable to RAID arrays when one disk goes bad and you can just pop the bad one out and put the new one in and rebuild the array.

 

[prankster]

thanks man! I get it now