The reason for the "Safely Remove" icon Friday, December 28, 2007 at 4:35 pm Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by DNA (553 messages posted) The reason why SATA drives show up in the "Safely Remove" dialog is to permit "eSATA" (external SATA) drives to be safely removed from the system. On my Athlon 4000 x2, all four SATA hard drives show up in "Safely Remove", including the boot "C:" drive! (Hmm, I wonder what'll happen if I "safely remove" C: !!!) Older SATA-150 chipset drivers may lack this feature (such as on my Athlon 3000 PC), in which case you may have to shut down the system to truly "safely remove" an eSATA drive. :^þ -------------------------------------------------------------- Athlon 3000+ 939 - 1GB RAM = 98SE (@768 MB RAM) & XP Pro SP2 Athlon 4000+X2 AM2 - 3GB RAM = 2000 SP4 & XP Pro SP2 IBM ThinkPad PIII 933 - 512 MB RAM = 98SE & XP Pro SP2 Windows 2000 Server in the basement Written in response to: Sata DVD-R/RW+R/RW (J.R.: Thursday, December 27, 2007 at 5:31 pm) Responses to this message: re: The reason for the "Safely Remove" icon (J.R.: Friday, December 28, 2007 at 6:22 pm) Followup: It's the drivers, not M$ (DNA: Saturday, December 29, 2007 at 2:56 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Sata DVD-R/RW+R/RW (J.R.: Thu, Dec 27, 2007, 5:31 pm) re: Sata DVD-R/RW+R/RW (Deb: Thu, Dec 27, 2007, 10:24 pm) re: Sata DVD-R/RW+R/RW (J.R.: Fri, Dec 28, 2007, 4:25 am) The reason for the "Safely Remove" icon (DNA: Fri, Dec 28, 2007, 4:35 pm) re: The reason for the "Safely Remove" icon (J.R.: Fri, Dec 28, 2007, 6:22 pm) re: The reason for the "Safely Remove" icon (Deb: Sat, Dec 29, 2007, 9:30 am) re: The reason for the "Safely Remove" icon (J.R.: Sat, Dec 29, 2007, 11:34 am) re: The reason for the "Safely Remove" icon (Deb: Sat, Dec 29, 2007, 1:08 pm) re: The reason for the "Safely Remove" icon (J.R.: Sat, Dec 29, 2007, 2:37 pm) Followup: It's the drivers, not M$ (DNA: Sat, Dec 29, 2007, 2:56 pm) re: Followup: It's the drivers, not M$ (J.R.: Sat, Dec 29, 2007, 8:09 pm) Uh oh, something's NOT M$'s fault?! (DNA: Sun, Dec 30, 2007, 1:52 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum