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    Do you have to shutoff or restart before changing Smart bay?

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by shaknbakenyc, Feb 28, 2009.

  1. shaknbakenyc

    shaknbakenyc Notebook Evangelist

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    Just wondering if I have to shut off the computer before taking out a smart bay battery and replacing it with the cd drive?
     
    shaknbakenyc, Feb 28, 2009
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  2. ryujin

    ryujin 2B or not 2B

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    the smart bay should act as a flash drive. just turn off/disable the device prior to removal just as you would a flash drive.
     
    ryujin, Feb 28, 2009
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    cha Notebook Deity

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    No need to shut down the computer when you want to remove the smart bay battery. But as ryujin said, you have to "safely remove hardware" for both the DVD drive and the smart bay hard drive.
     
    cha, Feb 28, 2009
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  4. whizzo

    whizzo Notebook Prophet

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    the SB stuff is hot-swappable. but you have to use the "safely remove..." thingy before you pull the device out.
     
    whizzo, Feb 28, 2009
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  5. kobe

    kobe Notebook Virtuoso

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    The safely remove option is only needed for the Disc Drive Smartbay and the Hard Drive Smartbay. The Smart Bay Battery can be pulled out whenever.
     
    kobe, Feb 28, 2009
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    heh I just pull em out cd or battery and no probs yet but maybe I should only do the battery.
     
    otaku, Feb 28, 2009
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    there have been reports of problems when doing that otaku, such as, when swapping from cd to hdd or something, the second device inserted would not be recognised by the system...

    others would start with the cd in, switch to battery, then switch back to cd before the system has been restarted, and it won't find the cd until the system is fully restarted... I believe it corrupts the data interface when you remove a device without ejecting it... so no other device can connect to that interface... the battery however, uses a different interface.

    the data interface gets reset on reboot, and thus works again.
     
    Mystik, Mar 2, 2009
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  8. findvikas

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    I once pop out the SB HDD as it was not getting disconnected and it hung my machine ... guess what I had booted from that smart bay HDD... lolzzz
     
    findvikas, Mar 2, 2009
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  9. Method

    Method Notebook Geek

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    You can just pull them out and then force a rescan from disk management and it will pick up the new one. But its a lot better to do a proper removal.
     
    Method, Mar 2, 2009
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    Mortis Notebook Consultant

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    What a coincidence ! I just ordered a Smartbay battery and the case for a HDD. I just wanted to confirm that the Smartbay HDD connection is SATA 2 right ? so I can put in a 500 gb hd in there ?
     
    Mortis, Mar 2, 2009
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  11. findvikas

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    yep Mortis you can. I am running Seagate Momentus 5400.6 in it
     
    findvikas, Mar 3, 2009
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