The T43 SATA/PATA Issue

[eDog1014]

I know this is not an entirely new topic, but I have yet to find a definitive answer, so I'll ask it flat out.

Has any one found a way, or even tried, to bypass or remove the PATA->SATA bridge in the T43 so as to install a native SATA drive?

Thanks so much,
eDog1014

[christopher_wolf]

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No, to my knowledge, nobody has found a plausible way to do so, much less an approach to doing it on actual hardware. I haven't intimately seen the bridge directly, but I do think that it is secured in such a way as to be very difficult to remove, even with complete disassembly; it may or may not be like an IDE "extender" in shape as I haven't seen any evident physical differences when it comes to the T43 HDD bay versus another T4X Series Thinkpad.