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How do I set an eSATA drive as removable in Windows 2003?
I am building a small hard drive based backup using eSATA drives connected to an eSATA host controller. The controller works fine and recognizes the drive. But the drive is not marked as removable. Therefore I am pretty sure Windows is not going to like it when I remove that drive without notifying it. How do I mark the drive as removable so that I can safely remove the drive?
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you can buy hot swap kits :
http://www.xpcgear.com/pros1100enclbl1.html
http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/mobilerack/CSE-M35T-1.cfm
http://www.xpcgear.com/pros1100enclbl1.html
http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/mobilerack/CSE-M35T-1.cfm
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Thanks. It seems dumb strange that a company would release non-hot swap software drivers for a hot swap interface. Any recommendations on a PCI-Express eSATA card that does do hot swap?
Hi ariusx,
This company offers a plethora of SATA controller cards
http://www.addonics.com/products/host_controller/hostcont_cc.asp
At the bottom of the URL I've posted it reads - All Addonics Serial ATA Host Controllers are capable of hot swap.
I've your worried about brands, you should be able to find a suitable card from Silicon Image...
Hope this helps,
Ian
This company offers a plethora of SATA controller cards
http://www.addonics.com/products/host_controller/hostcont_cc.asp
At the bottom of the URL I've posted it reads - All Addonics Serial ATA Host Controllers are capable of hot swap.
I've your worried about brands, you should be able to find a suitable card from Silicon Image...
Hope this helps,
Ian
http://mysite.verizon.net/kaakoon/hotswap/index_enu.htm
http://www.addonics.com/emerging_technologies/sata_tutorial.asp <-- here they say it's hotswappable
but as said above, check if your sata crontroller supports it.