External UltrayBay??

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sbddude · #1 Post by **sbddude** » Sat May 06, 2006 2:04 pm

Can I buy an external ultrabay? Perhaps something that plugs into USB or PCMCIA and lets me attach an ultrabay device??

sbddude · #2 Post by **sbddude** » Mon May 08, 2006 11:20 am

No one knows?

#3 Post by **GomJabbar** » Mon May 08, 2006 11:28 am

I believe a dock includes an Ultrabay slot. I am not aware of an Ultrabay only box. I could be wrong though.

Bgradid · #4 Post by **Bgradid** » Mon May 08, 2006 12:03 pm

I could swear I've seen some that plug into the PCMCIA slot around. But I don't know if they were ever made for the ultrabay slim

ThinkPad · #5 Post by **ThinkPad** » Mon May 08, 2006 12:11 pm

I dont belive there is a USB device to setup the ultra bay connector, but you can pretty much hook up anything via USB. You can hook up a bare hard drive or CD drive via usb. What are you trying to connect?

Edward Mendelson · #6 Post by **Edward Mendelson** » Mon May 08, 2006 2:04 pm

It's called the Portable Drive Bay 2000, and it takes the thicker UltraBay 2000 drives from the T2x/T3x (not the thinner T4x UltraBay Slim); however, OPTICAL drives from the T4x UltraBay Slim can be used in the Portable Drive Bay 2000 with a "ThinkPad Slim Drive Adpater for UltraBay 2000" (only for optical drives, you'll need an UltraBay 2000 adapter for hard disks).

See this page for further information:

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/UltraBay

#7 Post by **GomJabbar** » Mon May 08, 2006 4:53 pm

Leave it to Edward Mendelson to know the answer!
I'm glad I left the caveat in my post.
Now why didn't I think of searching wikipedia.org?

Edward Mendelson · #8 Post by **Edward Mendelson** » Mon May 08, 2006 5:12 pm

I even HAVE one...! I bought it to use it as an external CD drive in order to install Linux from it to a hard disk in the 2nd hard drive adapter - and then discovered that Ubuntu Linux 5.04 couldn't install from something as exotic as the Portable Drive Bay. So I ended up buying a USB CD drive after all (and then I bought a Dock II and saved myself a great deal of trouble).

christopher_wolf · #9 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Mon May 08, 2006 5:48 pm

GomJabbar wrote:Now why didn't I think of searching wikipedia.org?

Because the correct place to search would have been ThinkWiki and not Wikipedia.

Besides, we got the correct information in the end anyway from Mr.Mendelson.

#10 Post by **GomJabbar** » Mon May 08, 2006 6:10 pm

christopher_wolf wrote:Because the correct place to search would have been ThinkWiki and not Wikipedia.

I thought ThinkWiki was a subset of Wikipedia. After a quick look just now, it seems that that may not be the case. It's good you cleared up my faux pas. I have seen the light........

t20user · #11 Post by **t20user** » Tue May 09, 2006 7:45 am

Here is a link to a link with what you are looking for...

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=17185

I think I am going to get one soon for my NEC-6550 from my T22.

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