sata hdd question

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this is a general question and i am not sure if it pertains to the hard drive or my mother board but, i recently installed a Raptor in my rig (specs in sig and running WinXP) and i am wondering if it is normal for an icon to be present in my system tray. ever since i put the Raptor in, i have had this icon in my system tray that relates to the hdd. it's the same icon you get when you connect a flash drive or mp3 player or any other removable usb device. that being the case, doesn't that icon relate to temporary devices? when i mouse over it, is says "safely remove hardware" and then when i click on it, it shows the Raptor. last time i checked, my internal hdd was a permanent device, lol. why is my computer thinking it is temporary? is it normal for this icon to show up all the time with a sata device?
 
Well, I dont run SATA myself. But I'd assume that, since SATA is hot-swapable, Windows would give it a Safley Remove Hardware entry normally, wouldent it?

Seems logical.
 
WhiteZero said:
Well, I dont run SATA myself. But I'd assume that, since SATA is hot-swapable, Windows would give it a Safley Remove Hardware entry normally, wouldent it?

Seems logical.
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SATA is hot swappable with many controllers but most don't give the safely remove hardware option in Windows. I think it is a feature on some nforce boards.

Unfortunately I think it also allows the system drive to be "safely removed" though - which obviously isn't "safe".
 
puffcap said:
Unfortunately I think it also allows the system drive to be "safely removed" though - which obviously isn't "safe".
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Well, SRH shouldent let your OS drive be "safley removed" ever, since SRH wont release a device when it's being accessed.
 
so everything is ok with my system then? this isn't unheard of, it seems?
 
i have a sata in winxp, i got the icon when i first updated drivers, but after reboot it was gone.
 
Khaos Kid said:
so everything is ok with my system then? this isn't unheard of, it seems?
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No, it is common, provided you install a SATA drive that supports hot-swap. You could hide the icon if you really care about it.
 
thanks for all the info. since it's no big deal i'm just gonna leave it alone. i was just curious about it since i don't know much about sata, but i'm learning. :)
 
sata controller drivers.

if the drive is working there is no reason to update them.


there probably is a way to remove the icon. but you should probably run some speed tests and the like on the drive to make user it is running in the proper modes.

speed tests
http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public/index.php?request=HdTach

system information app, a must download. will tell you about the drive. post the info if you like.
http://www.gtopala.com/
 
yeah, everything is running just fine. i was just curious about the icon.

i ran hdtach right after i installed the hdd and it is running as it should.
 
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