Hot swapping sg33g5m

[Mill]

Hey,

Is here anybody who knows about hot swapping Esata?
I have a Shuttle-SG33G5M with -Intel Core 2 Quad 8200- 4GBDDR2 800mhz 4-4-4-12 and sata HD Samsung 1TB (HD103UJ) and sata DVD player (optiarc DVD RW 7173S)
Win XP - Windows 7

My ext. HD: Samsung 1TB (HD103UJ) won't.
My bios is installed on IDE cause AHCI can't read the int. sata dvd player.

Is this a hard or software problem?
Have I set the bios on AHCI and change something on the dvd player?

Or have I install other AHCI software or an Intel Storage Manager for this problem?
At the moment I have Windows 7

Help me please, thanks a lot.


Shuttle SG33G5M -Intel Core 2 Quad 8200- 4GBDDR2 800mhz 4-4-4-12

[NimrodAUS]

Hi there. Im not familiar with your board but I will look it up later, but I have the same thing happen with My Pioneer DVR-216 DVD burner, It wont work when I change my SATA settings to either RAID or AHCI. I dont know why I think its just some Hardware issue with the DVD rom as I have seen another member on here with the same drive and the same issue on another board. Lucky for me I have a second controller for SATA being the Purple JC Micron (gigabyte) SATA ports which I just simply use for the DVD Burner. Obviously you will need to have AHCI enabled to use "Hot Swap" . You maybe be lucky and windows 7 seems to be the choice to do it, when enabling AHCI after you have already installed your OS MIght work or it may just Blue Screen or restart when loading. As a general rule i think its best to install your OS after having set your BIOS to AHCI and using the AHCI drivers for your board. Your OS may load if you change it after installation but yeah. Either Go a IDE DVD or maybe get another SATA thats you can confirm works with AHCI. Yep After a quick google I see that you have no second controller for SATA so your stuck there but you do have an IDE. If you would prefer to use SATA then I guess you better get googling

[Mill]

Hi Nimrodaus,

Thanks for youre reply.
I will try to activate AHCI in the bios and have a IDE dvd player.
Looks if the HOT SWAPPING works when installed in the bios.

I hope windows 7 will take that, so I haven't to install it again.

As it works i'll try lan IDE dvd player later.
Do you know some Intel Storage Manager software for this board?

[NimrodAUS]

Umm Im not very familiar with using Hot swap with AHCI so Im not sure of the need or what software is required. I though all that was needed was set AHCI in the BIOS, then Install your OS using the special AHCI drivers on a USB Stick or whatever, then Im sure Windows 7 is Natively sweet with AHCI so you shouldnt need anything else. But If you use RAID which im not sure (I dont think it does) support you can use (what I use) Intel Matrix Storage Manager which tells you basically whats going on with your RAID Array. http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/imsm/ that link might contain some information for you.

[Mill]

I set AHCI on in the bios, and after some seconds windows 7 stopped with booting and restarted. I had to repair win7. The second time also.
So I think I have tot install win7 again.

Do you know if there are different dvd players on sata? Some that can play with AHCI en some they don't?

I rather don't want to install an IDE player...

[Mill]

Hi

I have set AHCI on in the bios, I did a firmware upgrade on the DVD player (optiarc 7173s) and a new Windows 7 installation.

The DVD player works fine
Windows works fine

But hot swapable doesn't work.

The mainboard I have is the Shuttle Sg33G5M

Do I have to install some drivers or software to let de HOT SWAPPING work?