Strange SATA issue

[roydon]

Hey folks ,this for all the people having SATA drives.I recently got myself a Seagate 160GB SATA HDD and its working fine.I also have a old Samsung 40GB IDE HDD that I have running XP.Now there is no OS installed on SATA drive.Here's the thing,when I load windows ,it detects the SATA drive as a removable drive with the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in the system tray.
In device manager ,it shows up along with my other samsung drive. Is this normal. I also read somewhere that SATA II has hot swap function.Is this also true for SATA I ?? Any ideas??
And also i'm using the MSI K8N Neo4 -F mobo.

[nishant_nms]

it's no problem

[roydon]

So you mean its normal? Is there anyway to disable the hot swap feature?

[john_the_ultimate]

Yes it's normal.........I also have 80Gb IDE (having the OS) and another 160Gb SATA II.

[digital2006]

So you mean its normal? Is there anyway to disable the hot swap feature?

you can very well disable it

go to device manager>expand disk drives>double click on sata drive>go to policies>check enable write caching on this disk after selectin optimize 4 performance

[roydon]

@digital2006 ........ "optimise for performance " is already selected and thats the reason its showing the green arrow.But anyways since it is normal ,I can ignore it.
Thanks for all your help guys,appreciate it.

[assasin]

^^^ just try to click on "Safely remove the Device" and see wat happens....