SATA drive = safely remove hardware?

**Shiranai_Baka** · 08-23-2005, 01:26 AM

Ok guys, I got everything setup. the problem is that my sata drive is being shown on the system tray and telling me that I can safely remove it. wtf?

**clocker** · 08-23-2005, 12:29 PM

That's standard.
Windows is just being helpful.

Or stupid.

**orcutt989** · 08-23-2005, 03:41 PM

Originally Posted by clocker

That's standard.
Windows is just being helpful.

Or stupid.

I have a SATA drive, and it doesnt have the safely remove hardware icon in my taskbar?

**lynx** · 08-23-2005, 05:20 PM

Originally Posted by orcutt989

Originally Posted by clocker

That's standard.
Windows is just being helpful.

Or stupid.

I have a SATA drive, and it doesnt have the safely remove hardware icon in my taskbar?

That's probably because you can't remove your system volume.

AFAIK all SATA drives are theoretically capable of hot swap, though I would not like to try it with ones which have Molex power connectors.

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