Strange SATA issue

7 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/strange-sata-issue.57410/

Hey folks ,this for all the people having SATA drives.I recently got myself a Seagate 160GB SATA HDD and its working fine.I also have a old Samsung 40GB IDE HDD that I have running XP.Now there is no OS installed on SATA drive.Here's the thing,when I load windows ,it detects the SATA drive as a removable drive with the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in the system tray.
In device manager ,it shows up along with my other samsung drive. Is this normal. I also read somewhere that SATA II has hot swap function.Is this also true for SATA I ?? Any ideas??
And also i'm using the MSI K8N Neo4 -F mobo.

it's no problem

So you mean its normal? Is there anyway to disable the hot swap feature?

Yes it's normal.........I also have 80Gb IDE (having the OS) and another 160Gb SATA II.

roydon said:
So you mean its normal? Is there anyway to disable the hot swap feature?

you can very well disable it

go to device manager>expand disk drives>double click on sata drive>go to policies>check enable write caching on this disk after selectin optimize 4 performance

@digital2006 ........ "optimise for performance " is already selected and thats the reason its showing the green arrow.But anyways since it is normal ,I can ignore it.
Thanks for all your help guys,appreciate it.

^^^ just try to click on "Safely remove the Device" and see wat happens....