just added a SATA HDD....

[fkdup74]

....is it normal for it to be on the "safely remove hardware" list? :unsure:
you know the icon in the system tray normally assosciated with USB shit?

-edit- yes this is my 1st SATA drive :dry:

-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]

Yeppers.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v78/clocker/safely.jpg
Windows is stupid.

[fkdup74]

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 :P

-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 :P

[fkdup74]

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]

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]

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 :P

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 :P

[clocker]

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]

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?:frusty:

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/4997/sata1yg.jpg


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



edit: I don't see the nvraid service :blink:

[fkdup74]

-edit- oops I was way off on that shit.
I need coffee. :(

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v504/fkdup74/untitled.png

[tesco]

-edit- oops I was way off on that shit.
I need coffee. :(

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v504/fkdup74/untitled.png
I don't have that in my startup list.:(

[fkdup74]

ummm...what chipset are you on?

I'm on one of the nForce3 flavors
(250Gb northbridge/ MCP 2-s southbridge)
on a Gigabyte K8NSC-939 mobo, and the raid service installed by default
I don't even remember it asking me if I wanted the damned service :dry:

[tesco]

nForce4.
I'm wondering if maybe I chose not to install the raid drivers when I installed the nforce drivers.
Maybe if I run setup again and have it install raid drivers I can then disable the service and have the message go away :)

[fkdup74]

nForce4.
I'm wondering if maybe I chose not to install the raid drivers when I installed the nforce drivers.
Maybe if I run setup again and have it install raid drivers I can then disable the service and have the message go away :)

:lol:
I dare you to..... :P

my guess is it's something they improved in the nForce4 chips,
or on your mobo, or whatever, but I have to deal with it :(

's'ok...this pc is gonna be designated the office pc after a while
was only my intro to 64 bit
I'm thinking quad core Opteron for the future :w00t:
although I have to say I'd hate to see the price tag on those babies :pinch:

[tesco]

I just trie dit still didnt install any raid service. :(

Clocker, where are you? I need advice. :P

[clocker]

I am here, my son.
Now...what is the problem?

[tesco]

I am here, my son.
Now...what is the problem?
I want that safely remove hardware icon gone.:(

[clocker]

Not gonna happen.
You can hide it of course, but it will always appear with a SATA drive installed.

[fkdup74]

I want that safely remove hardware icon gone.:(

ohhhh.....you didn't think I was doing away with the icon by disabling services?
that was just to shut the error messages* up, I still have the icon :sick:

*nvraidservice.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close, blahblahblah

[tesco]

I want that safely remove hardware icon gone.:(

ohhhh.....you didn't think I was doing away with the icon by disabling services?
that was just to shut the error messages* up, I still have the icon :sick:

*nvraidservice.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close, blahblahblah
Ohhhh ok I see now.
I dont get any errors.;)

Still want that icon gone tho.:ermm:

[lynx]

Right click an unused part of in the system tray
Select Customize Notifications
Click Safely Remove Hardware
In the drop down box, select Always Hide
Click OK

Google is your friend (http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=safely+remove+hardware+icon&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8) :rolleyes:

Btw, it's because your drivers mark the drive as hot swappable. I don't have that problem with Silicon Image or Via.

[tesco]

Right click an unused part of in the system tray
Select Customize Notifications
Click Safely Remove Hardware
In the drop down box, select Always Hide
Click OK

Google is your friend (http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=safely+remove+hardware+icon&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8) :rolleyes:

Btw, it's because your drivers mark the drive as hot swappable. I don't have that problem with Silicon Image or Via.
I already did that.
I want the icon actually gone though.:rolleyes:

[clocker]

Jeez, you Canadians are sooo intransigent*.


*Can you tell I got a "word of the day" calendar for Christmas?
I plan on stretching my vocabulary to the point of incomprehensibility.

[tesco]

Jeez, you Canadians are sooo intransigent*.


*Can you tell I got a "word of the day" calendar for Christmas?
I plan on stretching my vocabulary to the point of incomprehensibility.
I got a simpsons trivia calendar.:happy:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060786922.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

[clocker]

Tomacco, eh?