S-ata & Hotswap
 

I thought one of the specifics of S-ATA drives was being able to hotswap it?

Windows XP doesn't like my s-ata storage drive to be hotswapped (acts the same as if you would try to swap an IDE, it does not automaticly dedects the removal). Is it because a S-ATA Seagate 7200.7 isn't hotswappable, or is not supported by windowsxp yet?

same here with maxtor HD

have to do some research on that, but I don't think all SATA interfaces support hot-swap

1 SATA on a extra PCI or onboard RAID controller will never work. The drive has to be found by the raid array, and turned into a usable array first.
2 If it is truly hotswap you should get the logo to safely remove hardware in systray. WinXP only probably, and I've never seen it.

eSATA is hot plug I thought.

marcelleke just dropped by with his maxtor 120 gig SATA

and on my NF7-s it IS hot swappable. After removing the HD while runing in windows, it disappears, 20 seconds later we added it back, recognized imediately. nifty

wat did you disconnect first? power or data?

data first

disk disappeared. I did not remove power connector., so the disk kept on spinning, but is was gone instantly in windows.

NF7-s
maxtor 120 gig sata
win xp, SP 1

try removing both data & power :)

Hard disk is gone here :)