I have an Icy Doc that docks internal drives into a front 5.25 inch bay with two power switches on the front - one for the 2.5 inch dock bay and one for the 3.5 inch dock bay. In the past drives inserted here as well as internal drives would show up
in the Safe To Remove list. Apparently a Win 7 update fixed the internal drives showing up there. Now, even though the SATA ports for the ICY Doc are set to hot swap in the BIOS, they still don't show up in the Safe To Remove List, which
means the upper Removable Drive Policies section don't show up in Device Manager Policies Tab like they used to and still do for USB drives.
I found here in the forum some registry lines added to turn off the drives showing up in Safe To Remove List, so I am wondering if there are some lines or a tweak to these lines to get the two ICY DOC SATA ports to show up in Safe To Remove - or is there
another way?
Here are the instructions to remove drives from Safe to Remove from the other post by Bobby Mikkelson.
1. Click Start
2. In the Search programs and files box, type command
3. In the Programs list, click Command Prompt and click Run as administrator
If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or click Continue.
4. Copy and paste or type each of the commands into the command prompt and press Enter after each command
reg.exe add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\msahci\Controller0\Channel0" /f /v TreatAsInternalPort /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00000001
reg.exe add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\msahci\Controller0\Channel1" /f /v TreatAsInternalPort /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00000001
5. Restart your computer to enable the registry changes
Note: There may be some trial and error to determine the correct ports (also referred to as "channels").
The channel numbers shown in Device Manager may not match the channel number in the registry, so you may need to set the value and verify the desired effect.
Currently there are no entries like this in HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\msahci\
In case it isn't clear - I WANT the ICY DOC drives to show up in Safe To Remove.
Win 7 Pro 64-bit
ASUS Z87-A
All drivers and OS updates up to date.