MSI K8N Neo2 & RAID0 raptors removable???

[Jeff36]

Hi,

I just built a new system with a MSI K8N Neo2 motherboard and two WD74GB raptor drives hooked up to the SATA 1 and 2 ports in RAID0.

At bootup, WinXP Pro SP1 shows the removable hardware icon in the lower left tray by the clock. This is the same icon that shows up when you connect USB RAM storage. You are supposed to "stop" the removable drive before disconnecting it from the USB port. If I click on this icon I am given the option of "stopping" either of the two raptors. There are no devices connected to the USB ports at this time. I am using the latest 1.10 BIOS and the SATA RAID drivers that came with the board. The motherboard drivers are also installed. WinXP is up to date via Live Update, but SP2 is not yet installed.

This is only the third PC I've built but as far as I can tell, aside from this goofy icon, the system is working great. Still, I think it would be a VERY BAD thing to try and "stop" one of the drives in a RAID0 array (the system partition is on this array). Is there a way of getting rid of the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon? Is this indicative of a larger problem that is waiting to bite me?

Any suggestions are appreciated,

Jeff

 

[bubster36]

i am having the same problem on the soltek board so maybe when you find out i will be to fix mine also

 

[Compddd]

My MSI does the same thing, I think its part of the drive optimization that the Nvidia IDE drivers enable. So far the only way to get rid of it is with TweakUI or a Registry Hack. Microsoft sucks.

 

[bubster36]

do you think that it hurts performance,, having that not right like that, and also can you tell me what setting's in TweakUI that remove it ......... thanks

 

[xdouble]

I think this shows up because the SATA drives are hot-swappable.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Meh I don't let it bother me. I doubt it does anything unless of course you remove it then all bets are off.

 

[LSoares1]

Originally posted by: xdouble
I think this shows up because the SATA drives are hot-swappable.

I don't think thats the case.
I have a 74GB Raptor as my Primary Drive and a 200MB Segate as my storage drive.
That little removable drive icon never showed up until I plugged in a Flash memory media card reader into my USB port. But now it's always there and lists both my hard drives even though I no longer have my memory media card reader plugged in...

go figure

 

[chr6]

anyone have the registry hack mentioned in this thread?