Delist RAID in Unplug Hardware Saferly

[Man-wai Chang]

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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[Man-wai Chang]

They are *NOT* hot-pluggable devices.

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[DL]

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

 

[Man-wai Chang]

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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[Man-wai Chang]

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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[DL]

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

 

[DL]

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.

 

[Man-wai Chang]

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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[Man-wai Chang]

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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[David Vair]

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.

 

[DL]

Your disks would go off line, any writes to the disk would terminate and you
may loose/corrupt data
PS Its a bit hard to accidently hit the stop button, thats like saying
someone might accidently hit the PC power switch.