Ultrabay 2000 as 2nd HDD

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Ultrabay 2000 as 2nd HDD

#1 Post by krazykritter » Wed Mar 01, 2006 12:15 pm

IBM specs list it as only being capable of something like 36GB. I can't imagine that's true anymore but haven't been able to find out if this was a BIOS, hardware or software limitation. Surely IBM or someone has worked around this problem. Additional insight would be helpful.
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#2 Post by wolfman » Wed Mar 01, 2006 4:45 pm

Hmm...it would be very close after formatting, but I've had a 40 gig drive in my Ultrabay 2000 via the second hard disk drive adapter. The entire drive was recognized. I'm not at the machine now to check what the formatted capacity was but I believe it was over 36 gig (no hidden IBM recovery partition on that drive)...
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#3 Post by FuguTabetai » Thu Mar 02, 2006 12:02 am

I have a 100gig drive in my right bay and a 80gig drive in the left bay in my A31p. There is no problem with either of the drives.
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