SATA Sled: Inserted Drive Not Mounting

I know this feature was broken in XP, but thought it was fixed in 7.

I have a SATA sled that allows hot plugging/unplugging of drives.

My expectation was that I should be able to remove a drive from it, plug
in another drive, and see the new drive.

Instead, Windows 7 acts as if it were hung and I have to reboot via the
hard restart button.

Has my sys got a problem, or is that just the way it's supposed to be?
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Pete Cresswell

On 11/15/2013 11:02 AM, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
I know this feature was broken in XP, but thought it was fixed in 7.

I have a SATA sled that allows hot plugging/unplugging of drives.

My expectation was that I should be able to remove a drive from it, plug
in another drive, and see the new drive.

Instead, Windows 7 acts as if it were hung and I have to reboot via the
hard restart button.

Has my sys got a problem, or is that just the way it's supposed to be?


Open the motherboard manual and look up eSATA setup in the BIOS. AHCI
might need to be enabled for the specific controller and port for it
to be able to hot-swap SATA drives in the HD dock or "sled".

GR

Per Ghostrider:
Open the motherboard manual and look up eSATA setup in the BIOS. AHCI
might need to be enabled for the specific controller and port for it
to be able to hot-swap SATA drives in the HD dock or "sled".

That was it: there was a "Hot Plug" option for each port.

Took awhile for it to dawn on me that there is about 15 seconds before
Intel tells Windows that a drive has been removed or inserted.

Thanks!...
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Pete Cresswell

"(PeteCresswell)" wrote in message
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I know this feature was broken in XP, but thought it was fixed in 7.

I have a SATA sled that allows hot plugging/unplugging of drives.

My expectation was that I should be able to remove a drive from it, plug
in another drive, and see the new drive.

Instead, Windows 7 acts as if it were hung and I have to reboot via the
hard restart button.

Has my sys got a problem, or is that just the way it's supposed to be?

Excuse me if this has already been remedied. The only thing I can think is
that you're using IDE mode, instead of AHCI. AHCI allows hot-swapping of
SATA drives, while IDE does not. How is your BIOS setup for this?

Per KCB:
Excuse me if this has already been remedied. The only thing I can think is
that you're using IDE mode, instead of AHCI. AHCI allows hot-swapping of
SATA drives, while IDE does not. How is your BIOS setup for this?

Turned out where was a BIOS setting which turned hot swapping on and off
on a per-port basis - and defaulted to "Off".
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Pete Cresswell