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I have a used PDB2000 with a PCMCIA interface. It works fine with the 560X that I use from time to time, but with certain... quirks:-
1. It came with an Ultrabay 2000 DVD-ROM drive (FRU 08K9513). Although it powers up okay, after inserting a disc it doesn't appear to want to read it unless I push and hold the drive fascia into the bay. Then, if I gradually release pressure it will read happily on its own. It also won't eject the disc 80% of the time, I have to use a paperclip. Is this a bay interface connector issue?
2. I recently got hold of an Ultrabay 2000 DVD-ROM/CD-RW Combo IV drive (FRU 08K9868) and tried using it with the bay. The drive powers up and then immediately stops. Windows tells me that the bay is not correctly installed. Although ThinkWiki says that the bay should support any Ultrabay 2000 device excluding the battery, the IBM site instead gives a short list of about 8 drives that it will support, which the Combo IV isn't on. I have a feeling that this is a case of something (the hardware or the driver) checking the ID of the drive against a known list and ignoring it if it's not on there. After cracking open the bay itself, I can't see anything in there that appears to be performing any logic, just some huge [censored] capacitors and a few EEPROMs. If I get can hold of a USB cable, would it work any differently?
I've also worked out that the bay seems to be a rebage of something called a "deviceDOCK", made by a now-dead company called CNF Inc. They also appear to have made internal device bays for Toshiba (SelectBay). Has anyone tried sticking a Toshiba-branded drive into a PDB2000?
