I tried the above method, but it did not work for me.... at least not for the hard drives that are connected to the ICHR9 ports (I have the jmicron ports disabled). I also tried the registry method (http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=444831) and that did not work either. Did you do anything else to get hot-swapping working on the ICHR9 ports?
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