Recent content by Caspan

Just glad for me so far the problem is solved I believe.

Hh man I read this but didn't think twick about it because you mentioned comming out of sleep. Now -m putting 2 and 2 togeather! Thanks

Problem solved...... Man this was a pain! I'm lucky I didn't pay the $250 for MS support. I found this KB article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977178 this states that some green drives (which these all are) could have a problem because they take longer then the standard 10 seconds to spin up...

What do you mean on an eSATA chipset? SATA is the same as eSATA just a different connector. Are these internal raw drives you are swapping in and out or are these in their own external cases and run through eSATA and need an external power source. As well what OS are you running? I'm staring...

so now I called in and I got the answer that Seagate officially does not support hot swap on any other drives then the Cheetah if it works it work if it don't it don't. Well Seagate if I ever buy a drive from you again I might if I don't I don't. Who the heck does not support hot swapping on...

2 seconds later I got this one.. I love how they actually read my statements Dear Caspan, Thank you for contacting Seagate. The drive you have is capable of hot swapping, however we do not support it. You say the drive hot swaps when used with an external dock, but not with the internal...

LOL first response I got from Seagate. If you read the SPEC of SATA 1.0 it says it must have differed length pins to allow for hot swapping.. any ways here is the answer Dear Caspan, Thank you for contacting Seagate. Unfortunately, Barracuda drives, like most SATA drives, are not...

Yeah you got it is only for post and normally only for SCSI drives as they need a lot of power to spin up to 12K and if you have 5 of them all doing that at the same time your power supply can blow its fuse as the initial power surge can be 3 times as much as the running usage of the drive. Ill...

Thing is all other drives then the ST32000542AS drive hot swap so BIOS supports it 100% but just not for this model of drive even other Seagate drives work. As I mentioned if I wait for the drive to spin up first then unplug and replug back in the SATA cable the drive pops up in Windows auto...

I am having the same problem, I bought 2 ST32000542AS and a StarTech 5.25 SATA hot swap drive bay. This allows me to put a drive in hot because I am using AHCI. This was now going to be my backup solution. What I have found is that I will put a drive in, I will hear it spin up but then nothing...