stopping sata drives?

[pow3rslave]

ok, so i just did a reinstall using SP2, and where before had satas listed in 'safely remove hardware' now i don't.
it's a hassle cos i'm using an esata rack, and i want to be able to stop the drives in it before i turn it off. anyone know how to change this?

i tried changing settings so they're 'optimised for quick removal' but the box is unselectable.

[azkwazere]

how is it connected? is it a USB/Firewire setup or external SATA array?

aZk.

[azkwazere]

how is it connected? is it a USB/Firewire setup or external SATA array?

aZk.

[azkwazere]

how is it connected? is it a USB/Firewire setup or external SATA array?

aZk.

[azkwazere]

how is it connected? is it a USB/Firewire setup or external SATA array?

aZk.

[pow3rslave]

i'm using an esata rack connected to a port multiplier, which is connected to the esata, but also i dont have stopping as an option for my 2 sata internals either (one's the boot drive, so not surprised about that) but the other either.

please don't tell me i have to go into device manager and disable them that way

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Found this on Safely Remove Option - Not Available - HELP! - The Corsair Support Forums

by Garvin
I've seen this problem umpteen times with all of the brands of USB drives (flash drives or hard drives). It's usually not the drives fault or the operating systems fault; it's the motherboard's USB drivers fault. The best fix for the problem is to find out exactly what motherboard is in the system and go over to the motherboard's support site and find the latest motherboard chipset drivers for the that specific motherboard and specific operating system and download and install them (some motherboards also have independent USB drivers in addition to the chipset drivers that need to be installed). If the system is from an OEM manufacturer, say Dell, HP, Gateway, ect, usually you need to go over to the OEM's support site and see if they have an updated chipset and/or independent USB driver package available for download and install. Updating these drivers fixes the issue a little over half the time. If it doesn't fix it, you'll need to wait until someone gets around to fixing those drivers.

[pow3rslave]

^^^ would that help for sata as well?

[azkwazere]

youll find internal sata drives cant be stopped during run time... some can some cant, its really software and hardware dependant....

ill have to look up your device to see what the go is, sorry for the 5X post above to... dont know wtf happened there!

aZk.

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^^^ would that help for sata as well?

Latest drivers are always a good idea, straight from the manufacturers site. So chipset and sata drivers. You can also change the registry to fix that issue but no idea what key.

[arrow224]

youll find internal sata drives cant be stopped during run time... some can some cant, its really software and hardware dependant....

Really? I have always thought that SATA was designed to be hot-swappable, so you could stop them. I know that you can't stop the OS drive, that makes sense. But any others you should be able to.

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Really? I have always thought that SATA was designed to be hot-swappable, so you could stop them. I know that you can't stop the OS drive, that makes sense. But any others you should be able to.

I've got an internal sata drive on my at home and it gives me the option to safely remove.

[pow3rslave]

Latest drivers are always a good idea, straight from the manufacturers site. So chipset and sata drivers. You can also change the registry to fix that issue but no idea what key.

you'd think this would be an awesome idea, but apparently not. seems it's the newer bios that's killed all sata functionality, ahci ability was taken out of the satas like 4 bios revisions ago, with asus claiming that it's because of a bug in some suspend mode. and IT ISN'T BEING LOOKED INTO ANYMORE. basically i can revert back several bioses, or have satas that act like ide's

to anyone that this doesn't make sense to, basically i bought a motherboard on the basis of it's functions, asus then killed one of these functions, and are refusing to make bioses that will fix it, take returns on them or anything.


links
Stay clear! Asus P5K (vanilla) NOT working! - InsanelyMac Forum

ASUSTeK Computer Inc.-Forum-

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Which P5K do you have e.g. Deluxe, MX etc.

[pow3rslave]

regular type, the official line from asus/intel is that ich9 doesn't support ahci, but it did until bios version 4. i managed to make some changes to a set of ich9r drivers, so windows actually sees the drives and doesn't BSOD on boot, but i'm still not getting sata/esata drives in safely remove hardware.

from what i've read on forums ahci was clashing with a suspend function in winblows, so intel in their superior knowledge pulled the function, in spite of the stacks of users that were using it without any probs in windows/linux or as a Hackintosh.