I don't want the two RAID disks appear in the safely "Safely Unplug
Hardware" tray icon. It's dangerous.

What could I do?

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They are *NOT* hot-pluggable devices.

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Yes they are, allthough you may not want to use them as such.
Its a feature of your sata controler

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DL wrote:
> Yes they are, allthough you may not want to use them as such.
> Its a feature of your sata controler

Sir/Madam, they were/are *NOT* implemented as hot-pluggable drives. I
don't care what they are/were capable of.

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DL wrote:
> Yes they are, allthough you may not want to use them as such.
> Its a feature of your sata controler

Also, your Honour and your Majesty, what would happen if I stop them?

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You would loose access to the drives, the same as if they were any usb
device

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> DL wrote:
> > Yes they are, allthough you may not want to use them as such.
> > Its a feature of your sata controler
>
> Also, your Honour and your Majesty, what would happen if I stop them?
>
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Whether you like it or not a sata drive has the capabilty of being a hot
swap when attached to a controller that has these capabilities.

*Sometimes* a sata/raid update from your manufacturer web site will remove
this feature.

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> DL wrote:
> > Yes they are, allthough you may not want to use them as such.
> > Its a feature of your sata controler
>
> Sir/Madam, they were/are *NOT* implemented as hot-pluggable drives. I
> don't care what they are/were capable of.
>
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DL wrote:
> You would loose access to the drives, the same as if they were any usb
> device

If I got a task doing a lot of disk writes into the 2 listed disks, and
I or someone accidentally clicked the stop button, what would happen?

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DL wrote:
> Whether you like it or not a sata drive has the capabilty of being a hot
> swap when attached to a controller that has these capabilities.
>
> *Sometimes* a sata/raid update from your manufacturer web site will remove
> this feature.

You are hinting that it's a driver problem, which is not reporting the
truth to WinXP?

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No, DL is suggesting that some manufactures may have a utility to turn off the hot swap capability
on the drive itself. You may want to check there to see if yours has such a download.
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> DL wrote:
>> Whether you like it or not a sata drive has the capabilty of being a hot
>> swap when attached to a controller that has these capabilities.
>>
>> *Sometimes* a sata/raid update from your manufacturer web site will remove
>> this feature.
>
> You are hinting that it's a driver problem, which is not reporting the
> truth to WinXP?
>
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