Guest David Owens Posted August 16, 2007 Posted August 16, 2007 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 Posted August 16, 2007 Posted August 16, 2007 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 Posted August 17, 2007 Posted August 17, 2007 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 Posted August 17, 2007 Posted August 17, 2007 Re: Hot Swap SATA Drives Problem Hi! Is not only E-Sata hot-swap? Wolfgang "David Owens" <davidjowens@bellsouth.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:ei%wi.5372$7e6.1906@bignews4.bellsouth.net... > 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.
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