IP35 Pro SATA Hot Swapping

[Dural]

Recently got this...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817256030

And everything works, save for the hot swappable ability. When I plug the HD into the dock, Windows sees it as a permanent drive and doesn't display the "Safely Remove" icon in the system tray. I can physically remove it and the drive letter disappears, but obviously that's not something I want to do going forward. The south bridge on this mobo is an ICH9R, which should support SATA hot swapping.

- BIOS is set to AHCI.
- Intel Matrix Storage Manager (8.5) is installed and displays my HD's, but doesn't give me anything in the way of options.

- Also can't change this...

I'm sure it has something to do with Windows and the Intel drivers, but I'm not sure what. I remember my last Nvidia board (NF4 Ultra) would display my SATA drives as removable devices.

 

[Dural]

Hmmm...just noticed that it's show up as SATA 1.5 gbps as well, while my other drives are SATA 3.0 gbps. The drive in question should be 3.0 gbps and I didn't see any jumper on it.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136197

 

[Michael Daly]

- Also can't change this...

If you don't enable write caching, then your drive can be removed quickly. Write caching will make it write faster (since your applications only write to the drive's cache and not to the actual disk) but will require the cache to be flushed to disk before removal. The "safely remove hardware" step is what flushes the cache.

 

[Old Hippie]

It "sees" the drive as internal and doesn't want to let it go.

If you want the little icon try Hotswap.