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No it does not. Ah.. I thought it does that. What would be the worst effect if I try the hot-swap but it's not enabled to do it?. Will my motherboard / hard disk be damaged?

Yes but doesn't that spin down the HD rpms? I've tested utilities like "HOTSWAP!" but it lets me hot-swap hard disk that are not into the caddy, but not the caddy one. I still have not tried to plug / unplug it although I do not have the caching enabled, I don't know if it would damage my motherboard or so..

Okey... I couldn't stop until I founded a solution, so for my ASUS P5K Premium / WiFi-AP Black Pearl Ed. with P35 / ICH9R, what I've done is what's explained in the next URL: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums...46-6c9a81346528 No problems at all, and I think it worked properly. The only thing you've to take in mind is that the link for the download is broken, so you've now to use this one () that will guide you to the IATA88ENU.exe You'll have to use that file instead of the older version (also with the -a, of course). I don't have used the hot swap module yet, I'll give it a try later. My S-ATA optical drive is working without problems. For suggestions, it's a HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH20NS10. In my device manager, under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers, only one device appears: Intel® ICH9R/DO/DH SATA AHCI Controller. I don't know if this is enough to ask if all has been done correctly or not. If I've to post something more to check, please don't doubt to ask. I'll post results of the hot-swapping as soon as possible. Hope this helps. EDIT: After a few hours of problems I had with the boot.ini, I'm back on my computer. The disk into the hot-swap unit is recognized and operative, but it doesn't appear with the safety remove option like the stick usb, so... I haven't hot-swapped it to avoid any electrical damage. Any idea?

ASUS P5K Premium / WiFi-AP here. First time I try Hot-Swap in my life. What I've done is bought an ICY DOCK MB671SK-BB days ago when I saw my motherboard supports hot-swap. I've been reading a lot and one of my doubts is: if I change the whole Intel S-ATA ports to AHCI (from IDE) won't be the data affected in all the discs?. I don't want to lost something, I just want to hop-swap one disc on this ICY DOCK unit without loosing data on the other ones, so I don't know how AHCI would affect the others (and I've seen that AHCI can't be applied to a single port, just to the 6 ones in this Intel controller). I've been trying this method before install the ICY DOCK (it arrived today and I've not connected it yet) since seems I must do it in order to make my XP x64 able to recognize AHCI things. I've started the steps on the 1st post (many thanks for all that work) but the problem is that on iaAHCI.inf file I can't find the next line: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2923&CC_0106.DeviceDesc = "Intel(R) 82801HR/HH/HO SATA AHCI Controller" So I have not replaced it yet. The most similar line I can find is the next one: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2923&CC_0106.DeviceDesc = "Intel(R) ICH8R/DH/DO SATA AHCI Controller" So just to clarify, I've properly replaced the "2821" with "2923" on the iaAHCI.inf file, and saved, but it's the 2n part of the task the one that I can't complete because after had replaced that number, when I'm looking for the line mentioned, the list includes just the next ones: [Strings] DiskName = "Intel Matrix Storage Manager Driver" *PNP0600.DeviceDesc = "Intel AHCI Controller" PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2681&CC_0106.DeviceDesc = "Intel(R) ESB2 SATA AHCI Controller" PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C1&CC_0106.DeviceDesc = "Intel(R) ICH7R/DH SATA AHCI Controller" PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C5&CC_0106.DeviceDesc = "Intel(R) ICH7M/MDH SATA AHCI Controller" PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2923&CC_0106.DeviceDesc = "Intel(R) ICH8R/DH/DO SATA AHCI Controller" PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2829&CC_0106.DeviceDesc = "Intel(R) ICH8M-E/M SATA AHCI Controller" PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2922&CC_0106.DeviceDesc = "Intel(R) ICH9R/DO/DH SATA AHCI Controller" PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2929&CC_0106.DeviceDesc = "Intel(R) ICH9M-E/M SATA AHCI Controller" PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_3A02&CC_0106.DeviceDesc = "Intel(R) ICH10D/DO SATA AHCI Controller" PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_3A22&CC_0106.DeviceDesc = "Intel(R) ICH10R SATA AHCI Controller" I don't know which line I've to deleted to put the new one, or if in my case I shouldn't change something (and neither the 2821 entries..) or.... don't know. Any ideas? One problem I've in my computer after I've installed XP x64 is that I can't turn it off (it doesn't turn off completely, so what I do is reboot it and turn it off on the part of the post where it ask for my bios pass). I really don't know if this will affect all this AHCI thing. Excuse my many doubts regarding this but I'm totally new on this and don't want to lost something. Many thanks in advances for taking your time to read. EDIT: Okay... I've found that this seems to be only for ICH9 and not ICH9R (my motherboard says P35 + ICH9R), so I don't have the possibility to AHCI like this?