Hard drive jumper for ultrabay HDD

[winslow]

Am upgrading to a 2nd hard drive in the ultrabay 2000 on my T23. Does Hitachi ship their hard drives with jumpers? I am assuming I will have to set the 2nd drive as slave. Does anyone have any experience with this?b

[rkawakami]

Welcome to thinkpads.com, Aloha!

As long as you are using the Ultrabay 2000 hard disk drive adapter (FRU 08K6067), then nothing special is required of the disk drive. Make sure that there are NO jumpers installed on the drive (shouldn't be a problem since I've never seen one on an IBM notebook drive before). Insert the drive into the adapter; usually a caddy is required but I have used a bare drive with a mylar sheet on the bottom. Install the adapter into the Ultrabay and boot the system. I am assuming that you are putting a new (blank) drive in there? If so, then format and partition the drive as you like.

I think that there was a question around here earlier about if the Ultrabay drive is a slave to the primary channel or a master on the secondary channel. Based upon what I see in the Hardware Manager, I'm going to have to say that it's probably a master of the secondary channel.

[winslow]

So they don't operate under a master/slave configuration then? Both drives will be configured as master, is this correct? I have the HDD adapter but no caddy, thought the drive just slid into the adapter.

[rkawakami]

Windows Hardware Manager reports both a primary and secondary IDE channels. It appears that device 0 on both are being used (hard drive and optical drive in the Ultrabay). I would assume that a hard drive that is installed inside the Ultrabay would also appear as the master on the secondary channel.

You could slide the hard drive into the adapter but as the caddy has an insulating film of plastic attached, I normally play it safe and put a piece of plastic film (a cut up transparency film used for photocopying) in the bottom of the adapter, just in case. The hard drive should have "stand offs" to keep the bottom of the disk drive away from the metal bottom of the Ultrabay adapter, but putting a piece of insulator in there isn't going to hurt.

(edit: BTW, this is the perfect setup (in my mind at least), for backing up your system. You should get the fastest data transfers with the least amount of hardware hassle.)

[tfflivemb2]

The order they are seen is through the BIOS. You can control it by the way the boot order is set. I am unable to get into the BIOS right now to confirm, but I believe that you set the order as HDD0 (primary HD), HDD1 (HD in ultrabay).

I was just working on upgrading the harddrive on a 600E, from a 6gb to a 30gb for someone, and to make sure that there wasn't a problem, I changed the boot order to the primary hard drive (HDD0) only.

NOTE: The hard drives are either HDD0 and HDD1 OR HDD1 and HDD2...I cant remember if they use a 0, but just remember to use the lowest number first.