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setting up removeable SATA HD in SBS2003

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I am setting up a SBS2003 server and want to use removeable SATA in Kingwin tray and housing for back-up. I finally got everything formatted ok, but everytime I remove the Drawer, I get an Pnp error that says that "device disappeared from the system without first being prepared for removal. It also gives an ftdisk error "system failed to flush data to the transaction log. corruption may occur. SATA is supposed to be hot swappable. Disk are set-up as basic disk because when I had them as dynamic everytime I changed disk it was reconized as a foreign disk and I had to initilize it.

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make sure your disk manager is properly configured. go to the "computer management console" and disk management and make sure it's configured to see a removable drive. The SATA spec *IS* hot swappable, but Win 2k3 SBS didn't come with the BEST driver package, so it might think your SATA HDD is really fixed and not removable.

Check with your MB or SATA interface card manufacturer also... If you have a motherboard with the SATA ports built in, make sure they're not just EMULATING an IDE channel. Some of the first boards available were really just IDE channels with a speed bridge on them, and the OS doesn't KNOW that it's a SATA drive, it thinks it's an IDE drive. The same can happen if you use the little "bridge" card that plugs into the IDE channel and gives you a SATA plug on top. Although I haven't seen this myself, I wouldn't be surprised to see a PCI card that claims to be a SATA controller that actually has an IDE bus on it with a bridge.

Don't forget also, the SATA spec is still new, so it's subject to all of the failures and radical design flaws inherent in a quick-to-market product. That's why it's called BLEEDING EDGE!

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