Hot Swap SATA Drives Problem

[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.

 

[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.

 

[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.
>

 

[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
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.