OT: but relates to shrink. have question

[maddawg4]

For some reason my computer always has an icon in the system tray on the bottom that says safely remove hardware. When i click on it it ask if i want to unplug or something my external drives. How do i get rid of this and could it be effecting dvd shrink? I dont want to do what it is asking me to do its driving me crazy and i want to get rid of it.

[blutach]

You have a USB drive. The icon runs a process that stops it and allows you to remove it safely instead of just ripping it out.

It has nothing to do with DVD Shrink.

Regards

[maddawg4]

hmm i figured that but it just started doing it.

[volfann]

If you have an external drive connected through USB port then the icon should reside in your system tray if the device is powered up.. If you don't have any USB device connected and powered up and you have this icon ,then you have a problem. As Blu stated,Shrink is not involved or affected.

[soup]

I have heard that the icon will also appear if you have a SATA hard drive.

[techreactor]

I have heard that the icon will also appear if you have a SATA hard drive.

I cant say for others, but that doesnt appear for my SATA drive.

[volfann]

Only appears when my external is powered up or for a thumb drive.

[blutach]

Nothing to do with SATA hard drive either soup

Regards

[zaveon]

mine only comes up if i have a thumb drive in.. or my external burner hooked up

[soup]

Well that is strange because my daudghter's PC had a second hard drive (SATA)installed a couple of months ago & ever since that icon has been in her System Tray, she has nothing external attached to her PC. I asked about it & was basically told that it happens with SATA.

[NightTran]

Well that is strange because my daudghter's PC had a second hard drive (SATA)installed a couple of months ago & ever since that icon has been in her System Tray, she has nothing external attached to her PC. I asked about it & was basically told that it happens with SATA.

was her first HD is PATA ?, mine are all SATA and I dont have the icon, only when I hook up a D link then the Icon show up

[soup]

First drive (PATA) yes & hardwired to modem/router (AIO). The SATA is used for storage drive.

[Chewy]

if you have sata power(not the adapter) then sata is hot swappable

but

If the Serial ATA hard drive is not listed under the "Safely Remove Hardware" function, the motherboard or Serial ATA controller does not support hot plugging and the computer should be shut down and powered off before disconnecting the hard drive.

[soup]

Thanks, because that icon shows up (safely remove hardware), we could disconnect the SATA while the PC is running (Hot Plugging or Hot Swapping = The ability to add and remove devices to a computer while the computer is running and have the operating system automatically recognize the change).

[Chewy]

since the "safely remove hardware" shows up with her computer, then the drive can be hot swapped

her mobo and controller support the feature

but don't test it on my account!

the whole idea behind this was giving sata the capabilities for hot swapping a raid 0 + 1 array,
where 4 drives are mirrored and striped and a spare kept on hand

server technology, I think scuzzi was the standard