No more hot-swappable?

[Chow Yun Fat]

I am running XP. I have several Kingwin KF-91-BK 's. On my old AMD system, I was able to hot swap. I recently upgraded two of my PC's with gigabyte mobos, and now, I can no longer hot swap.

I have 3 hard drives operating always and occasionally 4 when accessing older data. I am using Seagates from 160gb to 500gb.


CPU: Q6600@3.0
Mobo: GIGABYTE P35C-DS3R

 

[drizzt81]

Did you set the controller to AHCI mode?

 

[Ockie]

Some controllers to drives do not interface well. I know that certian brands would not want to hot swap in my galaxy systems very well.


Check as drizzt recomended and if that does not work, look for another controller.

 

[Chow Yun Fat]

Enabled AHCI in bios. Now my PC hangs in post "ACPI Controller."

 

[axan]

you can't swap from legacy to ahci in bios after installing xp, well you can but before you do you need to make some changes in your windows xp. This should get you started.