Hot Swap SATA Drives Problem

[Guest David Owens]

I'm trying to use a set of internal SATA drives

for backups on Windows Server 2003 SP2. The SATA

drives are in hot swap trays that can be inserted

into a mobile rack. The rack connects to the motherboard

using a standard SATA data cable.

 

The drives in the trays seem to work fine, but I'm

having problems getting them to be hot swappable.

When I took out one of the trays and inserted another

to format the hard drive in it, the system reset.

 

What do I need to do to make this work? I was assuming

SATA II drives and motherboard chipsets supported hot

swapping. The board has an Intel 5000V (Blackford-VS)

chipset and Enterprise South Bridge 2. The mobile rack

is a Kingwin KF-811, and the SATA II drives are Western

Digital 160GB WD1600JS.

[Guest George Valkov]

Re: Hot Swap SATA Drives Problem

 

I have no professional experience with hot-swapping, but I made a few tests

on my home PC - Elitegroup K7VTA3, KT333 chipset, AMD Athlon 1700+, 1 GB

RAM. Neither the main-board, not the hard-disks indicate hot-swappable, so I

guess they both are not.

 

 

I usually disable the disk from Device Manager, in hope that this will flush

the cache to disk. Then I unplug the hard-disk from the power and then the

IDE cable. In the system log, an entry is created: "The device disappeared

unexpectedly...".

When adding a disk, the trick is to attach the power, wait a few seconds and

the attach the IDE cable. Then in Device Manager I rescan for new hardware

and the hard-disk is ready for use.

If I connect the IDE first, some times the system will freeze when I plug-in

the IDE cable.

 

At least that's how it is with my system.

 

 

"David Owens" wrote:

| I'm trying to use a set of internal SATA drives

| for backups on Windows Server 2003 SP2. The SATA

| drives are in hot swap trays that can be inserted

| into a mobile rack. The rack connects to the motherboard

| using a standard SATA data cable.

|

| The drives in the trays seem to work fine, but I'm

| having problems getting them to be hot swappable.

| When I took out one of the trays and inserted another

| to format the hard drive in it, the system reset.

|

| What do I need to do to make this work? I was assuming

| SATA II drives and motherboard chipsets supported hot

| swapping. The board has an Intel 5000V (Blackford-VS)

| chipset and Enterprise South Bridge 2. The mobile rack

| is a Kingwin KF-811, and the SATA II drives are Western

| Digital 160GB WD1600JS.

[Guest shimoni]

RE: Hot Swap SATA Drives Problem

 

You need to make sure that your mother board support this kind of operation.

Check the intel website and the motherboard documentation.

 

 

"David Owens" wrote:

> I'm trying to use a set of internal SATA drives

> for backups on Windows Server 2003 SP2. The SATA

> drives are in hot swap trays that can be inserted

> into a mobile rack. The rack connects to the motherboard

> using a standard SATA data cable.

>

> The drives in the trays seem to work fine, but I'm

> having problems getting them to be hot swappable.

> When I took out one of the trays and inserted another

> to format the hard drive in it, the system reset.

>

> What do I need to do to make this work? I was assuming

> SATA II drives and motherboard chipsets supported hot

> swapping. The board has an Intel 5000V (Blackford-VS)

> chipset and Enterprise South Bridge 2. The mobile rack

> is a Kingwin KF-811, and the SATA II drives are Western

> Digital 160GB WD1600JS.

>

[Guest Wolfgang Hauer]

Re: Hot Swap SATA Drives Problem

 

Hi!

 

Is not only E-Sata hot-swap?

 

Wolfgang

 

"David Owens" <davidjowens@bellsouth.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag

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> I'm trying to use a set of internal SATA drives

> for backups on Windows Server 2003 SP2. The SATA

> drives are in hot swap trays that can be inserted

> into a mobile rack. The rack connects to the motherboard

> using a standard SATA data cable.

>

> The drives in the trays seem to work fine, but I'm

> having problems getting them to be hot swappable.

> When I took out one of the trays and inserted another

> to format the hard drive in it, the system reset.

>

> What do I need to do to make this work? I was assuming

> SATA II drives and motherboard chipsets supported hot

> swapping. The board has an Intel 5000V (Blackford-VS)

> chipset and Enterprise South Bridge 2. The mobile rack

> is a Kingwin KF-811, and the SATA II drives are Western

> Digital 160GB WD1600JS.