Safely Remove icon on internal SATA drives

I have latest driver for ASMedia SATA installed(2.0.8).Now two of my HDDs is in Safely Remove Hardware icon.And there is no "Policies" tab in controller properties,like in previous drivers.How can i fix it?

I know what's wrong with that, install the Intel RAID/Rapid Storage driver even in AHCI mode.
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One of my internal SAT drives (a Western Digital RE2 500gb drive) appears to be giving up the ghost and is reporting a SMART failure. The drive is mounting and shows that it has 100gb available but I can't access the data held in the missing 400gb.
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Since you're still wanting to use it to remove USB drives, etc. I found a dandy program, it allows you to hide devices you don't want to stop. I've never used it, but the domain said it all for me: http://www.safelyremove.com/
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Hello everyone,
I was transferring and deleting very large files from my main drive, a 2nd 250GB SATA internal drive, and an external 250GB FW800 drive recently (about 50GB worth of data transfered), and decided to run disk warrior and repair my permissions/verify disk in disk utilities once completed.
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Message was edited by: Jonathan Timpe

This 2nd SATA drive only holds data (I'm a musician
so it only holds sample data for streaming in Logic)
but it contains allot of information (185GB used of
233GB) which according to my math comes out to about
80% used. This should be acceptable amount, correct?
Yes, that's fine.
The drive also has Journaling enabled, though I'm not
sure if its relevant or not.
Hmm, I think I once had a drive with a directory problem that couldn't be fixed with DiskWarrior without journaling being (temporarily) disabled. After disabling journaling, I used DiskWarrior to Rebuild the drive's directory, then I reenabled journaling.
What should I do? The drive itself seems to be
working fine, but why would disk utility have a
problem reading/repairing it if its indeed fine.
Should I be worried? The drive is probably no more
than 2 years old, so it cant be drive failure yet,
can it?
I'm afraid it could be, I've had drives fail at any time between half a year after purchase up to 3 or more years after. Though often one hears the drive "die", or notices very slow performance due to bad blocks being weeded out, and the S.M.A.R.T. status - visible in Disk Utility (only for internal drives) in the bottom right, when you select a drive (not volume) is an indicator of a harddisk's health as well (though not the most complete, see this hint, or S.M.A.R.T. Guard).
Update: I tried to graph the problem drive again in
diskwarrior, and this time an error occurred! This
obviously did not happen the first time I used
diskwarrior to graph and build a new directory, so
something must have happened recently.
Did you try to repair anything with Disk Utility in the meantime?
What could
have happened? What should I do?
So did the Repair with DiskWarrior not finish? What kind of error was it?
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I have search the forums and all the info I can find seems to just refer to external hard drives, how ever the problem I am having is with the internal drive.
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DaddyPaycheck wrote:
What brand is the drive?
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DaddyPaycheck wrote:
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USB Drives works, but does not show up in "Safely Remove Hardware"
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USB Drives works, but does not show up in "Safely Remove Hardware"
Here are my symptom
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