Re: [H] Secondary HDD help?

[Mini Me]

Sometimes a reboot or two are needed for drivers to start working properly  
is my best guess.

On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 06:00:39 -0600, Bino Gopal <binogo...@hotmail.com>  
wrote:


Thanks Stan...
Ok, this is so weird...I had decided that the issue was that the  
ThinkPad SATA HD Bay Adapter only did SATA I, and the HD was SATA II and  
couldn't step down to SATA I (there are no jumper pins on these HDs btw,  
even though I ran out and bought some to try and set it to SATA I)...I  
called both WD tech support in EMEA-
Pro-tip 1: If American tech support is closed (like WD was) you can use  
Skype and call EMEA tech support in an English speaking country-it was  
only .02/min and the guy really knew his stuff too!
and they basically confirmed that if that was the issue, there was no  
tool or anything I could use to step the drive down, so I was probably  
SOL!

So I checked Lenovo and their tech support was open, but they were  
useless as they couldn't even tell me anything useful about the HD Bay  
Adapter since it wasn't a "system".

Finally I posted in their user forum and this is the thread (if you want  
to check it out):
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Options-Accessories/Thinkpad-Serial-ATA-HD-Bay-Adapter-FRU-N-26R9246-and-T61-6457/td-p/346313
So you can see what happened there...the HD magically started working!   
WTF?!
I'm not sure what to chalk it up to at this point; I'm copying over  
100GB of files from the USB 2.0 external to see if that works w/o issues  
and try and get more confidence in it...so weird!  Anyone got any ideas  
on why it suddenly started working now finally?! :P
BINO


To: hardware@lists.hardwaregroup.com
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:15:40 -0600
From: swza...@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [H] Secondary HDD help?

I wish I could help you and have a fantastic adventure Bino. Happy New
Year to the collective by the way!


On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:59:37 -0600, Bino Gopal <binogo...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Hey guys,
> So I'm going to be on a Caribbean cruise starting Sun (
> http://www.jococruisecrazy - you all know I'm a big geek right?!) and  
I
> wanted to get some more space to store pics from the cruise on my  
laptop
> (Lenovo T61 model 6457-6DU) before I left. I've got a 80 GB Intel G2
> SSD as my boot drive, and it's almost full, and I've got a 120GB 2.5"
> drive in a USB enclosure I've been using to store extra stuff, but
> that's almost full too now!
>
> So I ordered a 500GB WD Scorpio Black 7200rpm 2.5" drive to put in my
> T61's Ultrabay with the ThinkPad Serial ATA HD Bay Adapter (which I've
> used before on this laptop with that 120GB HD in fact!) which you can
> see at: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-61161.html
> The issue I'm having is that I put the WD 500GB drive into the  
Adapter,
> stuck it in my bay, and then I get a Windows needs to initialize this
> disk message. So I go into Computer, Manage, and Disk Mgmt, and then I
> can see the disk though it shows as Disk 1 (the SSD is Disk 0),  
Unknown,
> and it shows as size 268440017.82GB (weird # right?) and Not  
Initialized
> on the left, and then it has the same size again and Unallocated where
> you can partition it...
> When I try and right-click on the left part, I get the Initialize on  
the
> right-click menu, but selecting that didn't do anything the first two
> times. Just tired it again and it's hung/waiting with the spinning
> circle...ok it just errored out after 5-10 mins and gave me an error
> message about the Disk Mgmt Console not being up-to-date or  
something...
>
> So, any thoughts? Going to goggle to see what the issue might be but
> it's slow going and I need to get this working before tmrw afternoon  
or
> I won't have time as I fly out to FTL on Sat! Thanks for any help  
guys!!
> BINO
                                        


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