High speed sff8088 minisas dualcable connection to the controller installed in your server. Then i installed the gigabytejmicron sataraid controller drivers. Hot swap, or hot swapping, describes the process of connecting or removing a sata drive from a running computer system. This hot swap technology has to be supported by the sata controller and by the hardware driver of the operating system, or it wont be available as an option. My mobo only has internal sata plugs, no esata plugs. To unplug a usb drive, i use devkitdisks detach devsd. As pcx said, linux does wonders with hotswap and i have never had a problem with it in my arch installs.
After insertion, the device initializes and then operates normally. The esata connector, usb, firewire are all designed for this. I can hot remove a drive from the thermaltake blacx connected to the ich10 although i do not have permission to do so its grayedout on the. I plugged in my external esata drive, and to my surprise the drive popped up right away. Can i simply buy sata to esata cable like here, plug in the sata end into my mobo and the esata end into the hard drive and it should work.
I believe the raid setting should work, i understand it does everything ahci does as well as enablig raid arrays. This is a great tool for connecting an external sata drive for desktop or laptop. Hotswap for sata is a fucntion of ahci not if you have esata or not. Your sata controller probably integrated in the motherboard may or may not support this feature. The portable software program adds the functionality to the operating system so that sata drives can be safely removed from the running computer system. Thermaltake sata hard drive docking station with esata. Usb 3 or sata hot swap for windows server 2012 backup. It also ensures that all data are written and flushed to the disk before the device to be hotswapped, so you can use sataesata drive as a.
I can boot up with a hard drive installed and it appears in my device list. I would get an addin card the support hot swap so that if you disconnect or power off the unit, it will reconnect without a reboot. New, used, and refurbished products purchased from marketplace vendors. Hot swap compatible plug and play support for most operating systems supports both sata 2. It is perfect for media professionals, and people who need a high quality hdd enclosure for their storage needs. This allows users to add and remove devices, such as hard drives and optical drives, without restarting the computer. I didnt even know there was a software driver for it.
I installed a vantec esata hot swappable controller card in the server as well. To run ahci you have to set it to ahci in the bios when load windows however there is a registery hack than allows you to change it to ahci and then reboot, enter the bios and set it to achi. A hot swap is the replacement of a hard drive, cdrom drive, power supply, or other device with a similar device while the computer system using it remains in operation. Features friendly user interface equivalent to the safely remove hardware icon in the notification area. If im not reading minds here please correct me what you think how swap is.
Mar 22, 2015 esata is by far the most reliable in a hot swap situation. Will thsi support hot swapping like the usb interface does. It also ensures that all data are written and flushed to the disk before the device to be hot swapped, so you can use sata esata drive as a removable device much alike usbieee94 drive. We also specialize in bto built to order branded products, oembranded and nonbranded products for our tier 1 customers. As im running slackware64current with alienbobs kde 4. Also sata hot plugging is as yet unsupported by the wonderful new devkit framework. Hotswap is supported in various nix and windows corporate server oses, but not for the home user, with oses such as winxp.
You may block or delete all cookies from this site but parts of the site may not work. I especially like the higher data transfer speeds you can attain when using the esata connection, when the same connection is available on the desktop or laptop. Oemsmotherboard manufacturers must correctly enable hot swap capability in the system bios. An example hotswap statement from a sata controller manufacturer, addonics. I will have to get a hotswap capable pcie card or change over to a nvidia 680i based board. The hotswappable feature is only available if the motherboard supports the esata hotswapable functionality. Simiarly, those little usb headers on the motherboard, are probably not a good idea to hot swap. When i swap drives, the server doesnt recognize the formatting on the new drive. Floppy is not, ps2 is not, even some oooold boards you could risk damaging the motherboarddevices hot plugging ps2. Smf 2020, simple machines theme 2020 microstar int l co. External hard drive enclosure esata usb raid hot swap. Sata is also known as sata on the go by asus and power over esata by msi.
Keep in mind the esata is simply sata, nothing more. Many external hard drive casing kits will feature usb 2. Plugandplay and hot swap compatible compact desktop style form factor includes highoutput power adapter to support large capacityhigh rpm sata hard drives easily connect and swap two 2. Hot swap is an optional feature to sata, so the drivers in the os have to support it or 3rd party drivers used with their respective cards i. This doesnt work with the esata interface of my external hard disk enclosure. It calls it a foreign drive and i must reformat it each time i slide it out and slide it back in. If your drive isnt picked up, open computer management, rightclick disk management, and choose rescan disks. Continued use of our website indicates your consent to our usage of cookies. Coupling with the builtin raid 01 support on the addonics serial ata pci controllers, users can add high performance raid to any desktop or servers plus hot swap capability with no additional hardware or software. Getting sata drive to be hot swappable technibble forums.
Hot swap is a free software program for microsoft windows that enables hot swapping functionality for external sata hard drives. Sep 10, 2009 i have the same problem with a esata external drive asus g50vt 160gb hitachi 5400rpm in a vantec esata usb 2. I enabled ahci for the sata port that the dock built into the case is connected to. Other controllers that are not silicon image based may not support hot swap. Thermaltake sata hard drive docking station with esata and. Quote if you want to change ide to ahci without reinstall windows os, you need to change the regedit just info on switching ide ahci to resolve this issue yourself, enable the ahci driver in the registry before you change the sata mode of the boot drive. Pcie esata card can provide hot swap in a system thats running os x client edition. Oct 06, 2010 easily hot swap sata hard drives with hotswap. I installed a vantec esata hotswappable controller card in the server as well. This is where the computer software hot swap comes into play. Startech satadock22ue esata usb to sata external hdd dock for. I installed this on a new motherboard that lacked esata, and it was a snap. One advantage that sata added over previous connection standards is the ability to hot swap devices. I can insert the hard drive after boot up and it appears in my device list.
As long as no data is being written at the time, take the data cable out, followed by the power cable a few seconds later. Hot swap would need some additional software to pull it off. Firmtek, llc announced the seritek5pm sata enclosure with port multiplier technology. The replacement can be because of a device failure or, for storage devices, to substitute other data. Functional drive activity lights and three 80mm fans for cooling. Click start, type regedit in the start search box, and then press. The hot swappable feature is only available if the motherboard supports the esata hot swapable functionality. I can hotswap to any of the ports on the adaptec array controller without problems im notified that a drive has failed and the array begins to rebuild automatically when a drive is replaced. It turns out that if you use that special esata type of setting you can have the external esata drive turned off but with the esata cable attached and when you want to use the drive you just power it up, and youll hear the chime as if a thumb drive had just been plugged in. Oct 07, 2007 hot swap would need some additional software to pull it off. Windows 10 does not detect a hotswap hard drive when inserted. Nov 09, 2009 hotswapping drives in windows 7 by jon gjengset i have recently bought two external sata docking stations one internal i. Intel does not support hotswap in any software release for any mb chipset released to the public. Also sata hotplugging is as yet unsupported by the wonderful new devkit framework.
The intel matrix storage manager software must be loaded. Yes, this allows hotswappable esata drives unlike my last motherboard, which required a restart or device manager device scan. One motherboard is a abit p35 pro running vista64 works with back ports but not front port on case and ahci enabled did not help other is a abit p35e which has no ahci support running vista and it will not work with the front esata port on my sonota iii case but will work with the pci esata bracket with cable plugged into the sata port on. This breakthrough solution houses up to 5 hotswappable drives, each with transfer rates as high as 3 gigabits per second, delivering potential aggregate hard drive performance beyond 220 megabytes per second with just one cable. Serial ata succeeded the earlier parallel ata pata standard to become the predominant interface for storage devices. Both become available after unpacking the software on the local system. External sata esata hard drive quick start guide, data sheet and downloads.
I enabled the generic ms ahci driver as per the kb and then rebooted. Windows on the other hand, even tho it should technically work is worthless. Hotswapping drives in windows 7 by jon gjengset i have recently bought two external sata docking stations one internal i. I enabled ahci, then installed the driver and tried powering on my external drive. Depending upon the operating system, the host may also initialize, resulting in a hot swap. However, drives with older sata connections will not support plug and play, instead youll need to shutdown the pc and swap the drive and power the pc back up. Simply insert the hard drive or ssd vertically into the ezdock drive bay, power on the ezdock, and plug to either the usb port or the esata port of your computer to access the drive. The serial ata spec requires sata device hot plugging. Esata supports hot plug just like usb but is that all you need. The ezdock also supports hddsdd hot swap capabilities without needing to turn off the ezdock or the computer. When configured with three additional seritek5pm enclosures for a. I blame this on my computer not having hot swap esata.
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