Internal SATA HDD showing up as removable storage.

Widjaja · May 17, 2008

Internal SATA HDD showing up as removable storage nf4 chipset. [SOLVED]

Is this supposed to happen?
Seems really weird as it is definitely not removable.

This did happen once when I used a certain chipset driver version on my old motherboard.

ktr · May 17, 2008

Sata devices are hot swappable. You can get Sata HDD racks, and be able to insert and remove them while the machine is running. Obviously you cannot remove the HDD that the OS is mounted on.

Silverel · May 17, 2008

Mebbe it thinks its eSata? Odd, but doesn't seem like it would hurt anything, lol.

Mussels · May 17, 2008

ktr has it right, SATA-II motherboards are hot swappable. Nvidia chipsets since Nforce4 have shown them up as removable devices to help with that.

jonmcc33 · May 17, 2008

The reason it is showing up like that is because he installed the nVIDIA SataIDE driver with the nForce chipset drivers. Uninstall that and it will not show up as a removable device. It will not effect your performance at all.

Widjaja · May 17, 2008

Thankyou Jonmcc33.

Uninstalled the SATAIDE driver and away it went.

I have no use for it as I don't have any other SATA HDDs currently.

@Mussels
I would say even the SATA I HDDs are hot swappable as my old motherboard with a VIA chipset had this feature and could only use SATA I HDDs.

Just some info.

jonmcc33 · May 17, 2008

Widjaja said:
Thankyou Jonmcc33.

Uninstalled the SATAIDE driver and away it went.

I have no use for it as I don't have any other SATA HDDs currently.

@Mussels
I would say even the SATA I HDDs are hot swappable as my old motherboard with a VIA chipset had this feature and could only use SATA I HDDs.

Just some info.

No problem.

You don't really need it, not sure why nVIDIA puts it in there. You can add more SATA hard drives and not worry nor need it.

In regards to hot swapping, I've been burned too many times on USB hard drives myself. I wouldn't bother ever using that feature unless you don't value the data on your hard drives at all.

hat · May 17, 2008

I had that. I just didn't install that feature when I was installing my chipset drivers.

Mussels · May 17, 2008

sata 1 HDD's dotn support hotswap, thats why this feature was implemented - you can 'safely disconnect' the HDD before removing it, whereas sata II drives you can just unplug while they're running.

Widjaja · May 17, 2008

Mussels said:
sata 1 HDD's dotn support hotswap, thats why this feature was implemented - you can 'safely disconnect' the HDD before removing it, whereas sata II drives you can just unplug while they're running.

So this nVidia SATAIDE utility in the nf4 chipset drivers is so SATA I HDDs can be hot swappable like the SATA II HDDs?

Mussels · May 17, 2008

Widjaja said:
So this nVidia SATAIDE utility in the nf4 chipset drivers is so SATA I HDDs can be hot swappable like the SATA II HDDs?

yeah but you have to 'safely remove' them in windows first, rather than being able to simply unplug them.

jonmcc33 · May 17, 2008

Mussels said:
sata 1 HDD's dotn support hotswap, thats why this feature was implemented - you can 'safely disconnect' the HDD before removing it, whereas sata II drives you can just unplug while they're running.

Which is pretty useless on normal desktops...

Widjaja · May 18, 2008

Is the nforce PCI system managment driver useful?

Also I wonder if SSD are hot swappable, not that I'd be getting one anytime soon.

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