Hi
I have recently added an eSATA PCI card to my PC (Windows Vista SP1) and this made me think about hot swapping disks and wondered if this was possible for the new external disk.
The motherboard is an Intel DG965WH. The onboard SATA ports are used for a RAID 10 4 disks + 1 spare disk via Intel RAID manager. The last port is used for a Startech.com removable disk drive drawer.
As I had no spare internal ports I puchased a Startech.com PCI Express single port eSATA card. This shows up as Silicon Image 3531 SATA controller under device manager. I have plugged this via the eSATA connection to a Western Digital My Studio and have configued the two drives in this to be mirrored.
The external device does not show up in "safely remove hardware". Does anybody have any thoughts on if this can be setup so I can safely remove the "Western Digital My Studio" and then add a different eSATA device without having to shutdown Windows?
Many thanks