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Old 10-30-2005, 11:27 PM   #1
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Computer reading internal drives as USB drives...

I have two harddrives on raid0. My computer seems to be recognizing them somehow as USB drives. On the bottom right of my desktop, there is the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon. When I open it up, it shows my harddrives as the two pieces of hardware that I can "stop" and disconnect. Not entirely sure what that's all about. I have:
EPoX EP-9NPA+ SLi Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard
and two Seagate Barracuda 7200 80gb hard drives

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Old 10-31-2005, 12:55 AM   #2
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That is normal, nothing to worry about. Sata hard drives will appear as removable drives. Not sure why that is but it may be because they are hot-swappable.
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Old 10-31-2005, 08:30 AM   #3
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Not sure why that is but it may be because they are hot-swappable.
Yes, it's because SATA drives are hot-swappable.

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