SATA and USB

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This has been puzzling me for a few weeks now. I recently installed a new
internal SATA drive. Installed it and config'ed it for use. That's when I
saw something odd. My Sata drive is seen as a USB drive. The "Safely remove
hardware" icon is visible on my task bar and the drive is listed for removal.

Is this normal or do I have a problem? The drive reads just fine so I'm not
that worried about it, but it is puzzling.
 
Some of the newer drives are hot swappable if supported by the motherboard, this drive may be one so
you are getting the safely remove icon.
 
jown7676 said:
This has been puzzling me for a few weeks now. I recently installed a new
internal SATA drive. Installed it and config'ed it for use. That's when I
saw something odd. My Sata drive is seen as a USB drive. The "Safely remove
hardware" icon is visible on my task bar and the drive is listed for removal.

Is this normal or do I have a problem? The drive reads just fine so I'm not
that worried about it, but it is puzzling.
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Just how new is the motherboard? Or what make/model of the
computer is this? Internal S-ATA hard drives are relatively
new. Most of the time, updating the bios will take care of
issues like this. Be prepared to download a bios update and
flash the bios.
 
You need to set youre BIOS to run a SATA or RAID drive,is it configured
properly....Also,if you run intel hardware,download and install the chipset
installation utility,+ the drivers for the SATA controller (matrix storage
mgr).
 
GHalleck said:
Just how new is the motherboard? Or what make/model of the
computer is this? Internal S-ATA hard drives are relatively
new. Most of the time, updating the bios will take care of
issues like this. Be prepared to download a bios update and
flash the bios.
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jown7676:
In the "SATA-world", these devices are (for the most part) "hot-pluggable",
meaning that we can treat them similarly to USB devices in the sense that
they can be connected/disconnected while the OS is running and do so without
any problem. Certain motherboards (usually) with NVIDIA chipsets identify
them as such and provide the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in the
notification tray. It's perfectly normal and nothing to be concerned about.

In order to meet SATA hot-pluggable specifications, both the motherboard &
HD manufacturer must specify this capability exists for their products. It's
really of little significance to the user if he or she is working with an
internal SATA HD that's obviously not going to be physically
connected/disconnected while the system is running (as might be the case
with a USB external device. Of course, if you would be using the SATA HD as
an *external* device with direct SATA-to-SATA connectivity, this
"hot-pluggable" capability would be a most desirable feature.

In any event, you need not access the SRH icon for any operation involving
your internal SATA HD. Simply stated, just ignore it. And there is no reason
to update (flash) your BIOS re this situation.
Anna
 
So it's no big deal then. Okay thanks Anna.

Anna said:
jown7676:
In the "SATA-world", these devices are (for the most part) "hot-pluggable",
meaning that we can treat them similarly to USB devices in the sense that
they can be connected/disconnected while the OS is running and do so without
any problem. Certain motherboards (usually) with NVIDIA chipsets identify
them as such and provide the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in the
notification tray. It's perfectly normal and nothing to be concerned about.

In order to meet SATA hot-pluggable specifications, both the motherboard &
HD manufacturer must specify this capability exists for their products. It's
really of little significance to the user if he or she is working with an
internal SATA HD that's obviously not going to be physically
connected/disconnected while the system is running (as might be the case
with a USB external device. Of course, if you would be using the SATA HD as
an *external* device with direct SATA-to-SATA connectivity, this
"hot-pluggable" capability would be a most desirable feature.

In any event, you need not access the SRH icon for any operation involving
your internal SATA HD. Simply stated, just ignore it. And there is no reason
to update (flash) your BIOS re this situation.
Anna
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