Sata2 harddrive being read as a removable drive?

[Guest]

I got a WD Caviar SE and it's hooked up through my SATA cords including
power. I use it as my main and run everything on it. I use two other
harddrives, not sata, as storage. It works and all but it's being read as
removable and I don't want it to. Any idea on how to solve it and if it
effects performance being removable?

 

[guest]

I got SATA drives only, and they are being treated as removable. No Performa
issue I found.

I believe they are tread as removable in my case because they are part of
the raid array. My mainboard RAID controller supports hot pluggable - That
is, I can unplug a bad drive and swap in a new good drive the CP is
running! that is flexibility and reliablity.

However one has be careful when removing USB device. No one wants to
accidentally tell Xp to remove a system drive!

 

[Anna]

Kalytar:
Your WD SATA-II HD has "hot-pluggable" capability and presumably your
motherboard supports this capability. So it seems that under these
circumstances the XP OS treats the HD as a removable device and as such, the
Safely Remove Hardware icon in the Notification Area is displayed. In any
event, it can safely be ignored and has no effect on the drive's
performance.

There may be a BIOS item that refers to this hot-plugging capability that
you can disable. If so, this should cause the SRH icon not to appear. Of
course, this would presumably negate the drive's hot-plugging capability,
but that's probably of no import to you anyway.
Anna

 

[Guest]

I am experiencing the same thing with a WD Caviar SATA HD. I haven't found
that there are any problems running the system. I accidentally selected the
drive for removal a time or two, but Windows won't allow it (fortunately.)
Nothing in my Bios to remove the SRH, but I can live with it since nothing is
going wrong. Thank you for your input.

 

[John John]

It's because SATA drives supports hot-plugging or hot-swapping. Hot
plugging is the ability to remove defective drives without having to
shut down the computer, a very useful feature in mission critical
computer like servers for example, a drive that is failing can be
removed without having to shutdown the machine and throw thousands of
users off line even if only for 5 minutes. Before you hot-swap a drive
however you have to tell Windows to eject it, that is why the Safely
Remove Hardware icon is showing. Even though the icon shows for the
boot drive you can't eject the Windows drive, try it and see. It works
for storage drives.

John