2nd hdd adapter problem.

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pdudas · #1 Post by **pdudas** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:00 am

Hi!

I have a T41 and it has a 40gb Hdd.
Until now I used the 40gigs hdd for system.

I have 2nd hdd adapter and I successfully used a Fujitsu Mht 2080Ah hdd in it.

Now I changed the hdd-s, and reinstalled the system to the MHT2080.
I put the 40 gigs to the 2nd hdd adapter.

Then came the strange behavior.
If I start the system with the 2nd hdd in the bay, the Led near the bay blink one and switch off.

The system cannot see the hdd in the adapter.

If I make a hotplug when windows running, the above mentioned behaviour happen.

Why not works the old system hdd in the adapter? (the hdd is good, I put back to the firs controller and managed to boot from).

Thanks in advance!

#2 Post by **jdhurst** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:15 am

This symptom occured for me after I started using SP2. I could interchange hard drives in the UltraBay adapter and boot from either one. After SP2, I had to be very careful, because not only did the boot from the adapter fail to work, I think I may have screwed up a test drive this way. ... JD Hurst

JHEM · #3 Post by **JHEM** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:51 am

IIRC, you can't have two active (primary) partitions in the machine at the same time.

Regards,

James

pdudas · #4 Post by **pdudas** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 12:25 pm

James:

When I change the drives (40gb primary, other to the bay) it can be booted from the 40 gigs. And I can see the other in windows.

There is an active primary partition on each drive.

You cant have two active priary partiton on one drive, but in your system there can be as many drives you have...

d lehmann · #5 Post by **d lehmann** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 8:14 pm

jdhurst wrote:This symptom occured for me after I started using SP2. I could interchange hard drives in the UltraBay adapter and boot from either one. After SP2, I had to be very careful, because not only did the boot from the adapter fail to work, I think I may have screwed up a test drive this way. ... JD Hurst

I second that.
With sp1 you could put any drive/os in the bay. Went back to sp1 and all worked again. Haven't figured it out yet.

JHEM · #6 Post by **JHEM** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 9:14 pm

pdudas wrote:You cant have two active priary partiton on one drive, but in your system there can be as many drives you have...

I actually knew that and realized my faux pas about five minutes after I embarassed myself.

Ah well, I'll leave it here in order to continue to lull everyone into thinking I'm human!

Regards,

James

pdudas · #7 Post by **pdudas** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:21 pm

Sorry guys, but this is not an SP2 problem. When the thinkpad boot, the drive is not spin up. So that time the OS is not loaded.

Maybe the hdd firmware, or the boot sector of the factory settings (with the recovery partition ).........

I will zerofill the old hdd, then I'll try it again.

pae77 · #8 Post by **pae77** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 10:49 am

One thing you might want to do when you try again is to make sure to remove the second hard drive from your machine after creating the clone and reboot the computer with only one drive in the system for just the first time you reboot. This might solve your issue.

pdudas · #9 Post by **pdudas** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 1:18 pm

I havent cloned the HDD.
On the bigger drive I mad a clean install!

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