just added a SATA HDD....

**fkdup74** · 12-19-2005, 01:54 AM

....is it normal for it to be on the "safely remove hardware" list?

you know the icon in the system tray normally assosciated with USB shit?

-edit- yes this is my 1st SATA drive

-edit again- wtf is up with the board? I know rossco replied, but I can't quote? invalid link?
and the edit page looks funky too........

-edit a-fucking-gain-
now I don't see his reply......

**clocker** · 12-19-2005, 02:12 AM

Yeppers.

Windows is stupid.

**fkdup74** · 12-19-2005, 02:20 AM

thnx clocker

all the data I just put on the SATA (from my external HDD)
is about to travel about 230 miles south,
so I wanted to be half-ass sure

-edit- although rossco's reply was much different,
fuck it, windows can read the data, I ran a few files,
everything looks good so far
and my bro is taking off with the external in, like, a half hour or so,
so it'll have to be ok
but since I'm giving his ass a $150 HDD and about 70 GBs worth of music,
he could at least keep the data until I know for sure

**fkdup74** · 12-19-2005, 02:54 AM

ok, now the nvraid service is giving me a feckin error every time I start windows
you know the "blah blah has encountered an error and needs to close" window

I'm thinking I have fuxked off my services or something,
didn't install something with the mobo, or something, meh.

windows acted stupid installing the drive too

here's what I did:
installed the hardware (WD2500KS) basically, a 250GB WD SATA2 w/16MB cache
started windows, formatted w/ Acronis PE
said it couldn't syncronize w/ Windows
I said ok bitch, deleted the partition
restarted, and the partition was there and recognized by Windows
so I said to hell with it, and did my data transfer, and it's all there
I am confused.......

**tesco** · 12-19-2005, 02:58 AM

My reply was that you are probably missing the driver for sata but then I did a quick search on google and found that it's normal for it to show as safely removable hardware.

**fkdup74** · 12-19-2005, 03:04 AM

Originally Posted by rossco

My reply was that you are probably missing the driver for sata but then I did a quick search on google and found that it's normal for it to show as safely removable hardware.

yeah, I saw your reply,
it's just that the board decided to fuck off when I was trying to quote you

anyhoot, I disabled the nvraid service in msconfig, it's shut the hell up now
feckin un-needed service as far as I'm concerned anyway
even with SATA I wasn;'t planning on doing any strip[ing or anything
all that "lose 1 and lose em all" shit isn't for me (RAID 0)
and every other RAID array is wasting storage IMO

**clocker** · 12-19-2005, 03:12 AM

Originally Posted by rossco

My reply was that you are probably missing the driver for sata but then I did a quick search on google and found that it's normal for it to show as safely removable hardware.

That's because SATA drives are theoretically hot-swappable (although most motherboards don't support that feature yet).

**tesco** · 12-27-2005, 04:28 PM

Originally Posted by clocker

Originally Posted by rossco

My reply was that you are probably missing the driver for sata but then I did a quick search on google and found that it's normal for it to show as safely removable hardware.

That's because SATA drives are theoretically hot-swappable (although most motherboards don't support that feature yet).

It's kinda stupid tho...Wen you click the Stop button on the drive it says windows could not stop the drive...
Couldn't windows have had some sort of check to see if it's a drive which would never be able to stop?

I'm going to try disabling nvraid like fkdup did.

edit: I don't see the nvraid service