Thinkpads Forum

Hello,

I bought ultrabay SILVERSTONE TS09 and HDD WESTERN DIGITAL HDD Mobile WD Blue, inserted in my Lenovo ThinkPad t430 and it is not recognized / detected. I don’t see it in BIOS either. When I plug it in my second Fujitsu notebook it’s working. I am using Linux Fedora 18, does anyone have idea how to make it work on ThinkPad?

I posted an answer in the "other" forum. I'll include it here for documentation:

I believe that adapter will not work in your machine. I have never used one, but I have read that it will work in a T400, but not in a T410 or newer. I know that the adapters that Lenovo sold for the T400 will not work in a T410, but the adapters for a T410 or later will work in a T400 also. (The optical drives for all the machines are electrically interchangeable. I have always intended to take them apart to see why they work that way. I would guess that one connection is not passed through to the drive and the T410 needs it and the T400 does not. (Everywhere I said T410, I really mean T410/T420/T430/T510, etc.)