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WTB: Ultrabay Slim floppy drive (Does it even exist?)
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 2:54 pm
by NorrisCell
I cannot find any definitive proof that they even made such a thing. Am I stuck buying a dock and using an Ultrabay 2000 one? If it does exist, and you happen to have one, please let me know.
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 3:16 pm
by SHoTTa35
they don't exist... you can however buy a USB one from anywhere or there's an IBM one also... i got one with my T60
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 3:23 pm
by NorrisCell
SHoTTa35 wrote:they don't exist... you can however buy a USB one from anywhere or there's an IBM one also... i got one with my T60
39T2518
Thanks for the info. question for you: are you able to boot from the USB one?
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 3:29 pm
by SHoTTa35
yup... you can. You have to turn off floppy support in the BIOS tho to make it show up. For whatever rason the bios still has the code for the UB floppies so in order for it to try the USB floppy you gotta.... phss... here:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... YQHJY.html
BIOS SETUP Legacy Floppy drives setting USB Floppy drive Ultrabay 2000 Floppy drive
Enabled Not bootable. Accessible in OS. Bootable. Accessible in OS
Disabled (Default) Bootable. Accessible in OS. Not bootable. Not accessible in OS
Notes:
With this Legacy Floppy drives setting set to enabled, you will be able to boot to a diskette in the internal (Ultrabay 2000) floppy disk drive.
With this Legacy Floppy drives setting set to disabled (this is the default), you will be able to boot to a diskette in the external USB floppy drive.
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 4:36 pm
by r2d2
Forgive my ignorance but is this info applicable to CD/DVD drives?
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 5:07 pm
by Padhead
You can put an extra hard drive in the Ultra bay, and then boot from that. You could also do backups to it as well.
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 5:09 pm
by scosgt1
You did not say which machine this is for, but all the newer ThinkPads I have used boot to a USB floppy by default. You do not need to change anything in BIOS, other than the boot order.
There is no such thing as an ultra slim bay floppy drive, but the USB drives do fill the gap.
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 5:36 pm
by rkawakami
scosgt1 wrote:There is no such thing as an ultra slim bay floppy drive, ...<snip>
"
UltraslimBay" is the one that 600 series Thinkpads use and DOES have a floppy drive available. "
Ultrabay Slim" is for the T4x, T6x, etc. and does NOT have a floppy.
ref:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/UltraBay
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:03 pm
by scosgt1
I stand corrected on my terminology, my point was correct. There is no internal floppy drive for the T4X and above, whatever you want to call the bay.