Does anyone else see this and dont think its a bug but my primary
drive its connected to the SATA controller from nVidia and thinks its
a removable drive like a USB drive.

Is this a problem? see attached picture.

and its a Western Digital SATA-150 but the BIOS post states its an
ATA-100, so if anyone can help me.

thanks!

i guess the picture didnt come in.

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 21:54:42 -0800, tecknotot <> wrote:

>Does anyone else see this and dont think its a bug but my primary
>drive its connected to the SATA controller from nVidia and thinks its
>a removable drive like a USB drive.
>
>Is this a problem? see attached picture.
>
>and its a Western Digital SATA-150 but the BIOS post states its an
>ATA-100, so if anyone can help me.
>
>thanks!

SATA is removable/hot swapable.

DaveL


<tecknotot> wrote in message
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> Does anyone else see this and dont think its a bug but my primary
> drive its connected to the SATA controller from nVidia and thinks its
> a removable drive like a USB drive.
>
> Is this a problem? see attached picture.
>
> and its a Western Digital SATA-150 but the BIOS post states its an
> ATA-100, so if anyone can help me.
>
> thanks!

tecknotot <> wrote in news:(E-Mail Removed):

> Does anyone else see this and dont think its a bug but my primary
> drive its connected to the SATA controller from nVidia and thinks its
> a removable drive like a USB drive.
>
> Is this a problem? see attached picture.
>
> and its a Western Digital SATA-150 but the BIOS post states its an
> ATA-100, so if anyone can help me.
>
> thanks!

I have no idea how to fix this.

I have a pair of Raptors on the Nvidia in a RAID set, and a pair of
DiamondMax10 drives on the Nvidia in another RAID set.

All four of those drives show up individually in my "Safely Remove
Hardware" icon in the System Tray.

Anyone know how to remove these from the listing?

I have a memory stick reader that gets used often, and one of these days
somebody is going to accidentally tell WinXP to remove one of those hard
drives!

The SATA drives are HOT swappable just like an external USB Harddrive or a
flash memory card, That's why they show up on your removable device list. I
don't think you can remove them from the list. Anyway you wont hurt anything
if you accidentally removed an HD just reboot, it wont permanently delete
the drive from your system.

"fsda" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> tecknotot <> wrote in news:(E-Mail Removed):
>
>> Does anyone else see this and dont think its a bug but my primary
>> drive its connected to the SATA controller from nVidia and thinks its
>> a removable drive like a USB drive.
>>
>> Is this a problem? see attached picture.
>>
>> and its a Western Digital SATA-150 but the BIOS post states its an
>> ATA-100, so if anyone can help me.
>>
>> thanks!
>
> I have no idea how to fix this.
>
> I have a pair of Raptors on the Nvidia in a RAID set, and a pair of
> DiamondMax10 drives on the Nvidia in another RAID set.
>
> All four of those drives show up individually in my "Safely Remove
> Hardware" icon in the System Tray.
>
> Anyone know how to remove these from the listing?
>
> I have a memory stick reader that gets used often, and one of these days
> somebody is going to accidentally tell WinXP to remove one of those hard
> drives!

DarkElldar wrote:
> The SATA drives are HOT swappable just like an external USB Harddrive or a
> flash memory card...

Noone seems to have noticed the nice backplate that allows you to
connect two SATA drives outside the case. This is only really usefull if
the SATA drives are hot-swapable, so you can connect a drive externally
to the nForce SATA150 controller rather than use USB2. It makes making
external backups so much faster.

There seems to be no way to make the icon in the system tray go away
though. But hey, trust me, you'll get used to it.