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X30x 7mm 2nd HDD Caddy Issues
X30x 7mm 2nd HDD Caddy Issues
Any here try one of those 2nd drive caddies found on eBay? I thought it would be pretty straight-forward like every other drive adapter I've every used. However, that's not been the case.
I put a "known good" (check using an external enclosure) Hitachi "slim" drive in it and ran across the following issues:
* Cold Boot- Gets stuck on the black, Windows flag/lights screen and doesn't finish booting despite the drive not having anything on it.
* Hot Boot- Slide in after the complete Windows load, the drive never detects, doesn't even appear to be spinning up at all.
Any thoughts? Both the "Bay" battery and the optical drive detects with no issue. Machine runs W7 Ult.
I put a "known good" (check using an external enclosure) Hitachi "slim" drive in it and ran across the following issues:
* Cold Boot- Gets stuck on the black, Windows flag/lights screen and doesn't finish booting despite the drive not having anything on it.
* Hot Boot- Slide in after the complete Windows load, the drive never detects, doesn't even appear to be spinning up at all.
Any thoughts? Both the "Bay" battery and the optical drive detects with no issue. Machine runs W7 Ult.
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Re: X30x 7mm 2nd HDD Caddy Issues
Welcome to the realm of double-bridge failure.
X301 contains Marvell 88SA8052. (Thank you nando4 for revealing that figure from schematic. And thank you for providing countless other hard-to-find pieces of information.)
If you are curious, you can break-open your ODD bay caddy and see what bridge it contains.
X301 contains Marvell 88SA8052. (Thank you nando4 for revealing that figure from schematic. And thank you for providing countless other hard-to-find pieces of information.)
If you are curious, you can break-open your ODD bay caddy and see what bridge it contains.
Re: X30x 7mm 2nd HDD Caddy Issues
Been a while but, as I remember, pretty much the same result as you are having.
Has lived in a drawer since.
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Re: X30x 7mm 2nd HDD Caddy Issues
Well, I guess it'll stay in the drawer where I put it yesterday! .....after I get that "slim" drive out of it, that is.91011 wrote:Been a while but, as I remember, pretty much the same result as you are having.
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Re: X30x 7mm 2nd HDD Caddy Issues
I should have one of those caddies as I'm fairly sure that I've cloned my X300 system at least once before. I'll double check on the boot and hot-swap functions. For my usage, I would have a blank 7mm drive in the Ultrabay, boot the system using a Ghost floppy and clone from the main drive. Don't think I have ever tried a hot-swap as the caddy has a mounting tab secured by a screw; not the usual eject slide and pull-tab lever.
I just checked my old emails; here's the eBay auction I purchased from: http://cgi.ebay.com/itm/300689145212 (Seller: ny-compu-tek @ $20.80 ea. 5/2013)
I just checked my old emails; here's the eBay auction I purchased from: http://cgi.ebay.com/itm/300689145212 (Seller: ny-compu-tek @ $20.80 ea. 5/2013)
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Re: X30x 7mm 2nd HDD Caddy Issues
I bought what appears to be the same caddy from the same seller. However, I'm trying to use it on an X301, which I believe is the source of the issue. Apparently it works fine on the X300.rkawakami wrote:I should have one of those caddies as I'm fairly sure that I've cloned my X300 system at least once before. I'll double check on the boot and hot-swap functions. For my usage, I would have a blank 7mm drive in the Ultrabay, boot the system using a Ghost floppy and clone from the main drive. Don't think I have ever tried a hot-swap as the caddy has a mounting tab secured by a screw; not the usual eject slide and pull-tab lever.
I just checked my old emails; here's the eBay auction I purchased from: http://cgi.ebay.com/itm/300689145212
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Re: X30x 7mm 2nd HDD Caddy Issues
D@rn! Should have known this before, I also ordered the same adapter
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Re: X30x 7mm 2nd HDD Caddy Issues
Okay, here's what I see...
On an X300, running WinXP (if it matters), on a "hot-insertion" of the caddy (Windows already running; system not in sleep mode), the 7mm disk is NOT recognized/detected. If I boot the X300 with the caddy already in place and a formatted and partitioned 7mm drive in the caddy (500GB; 4 125GB partitions), WinXP comes up normally and the drive IS detected. If I put the system in standby and remove the caddy, upon resuming, Windows will notice the drive is no longer installed. Similarly, if I put the system in standby, install the caddy, Windows DOES see the drive. I'd say that the X300 works like some of the older Thinkpads where you had to use standby to install/remove the Ultrabay device. In other words, the X300 does not seem to support a hot-swap.
I'll try the same procedure with a BLANK, unformatted drive if I can later today. I think I have another 7mm drive that hasn't been used yet.
I don't have my sole X301 set up with any OS at the moment so I can't report what happens with that system.
On an X300, running WinXP (if it matters), on a "hot-insertion" of the caddy (Windows already running; system not in sleep mode), the 7mm disk is NOT recognized/detected. If I boot the X300 with the caddy already in place and a formatted and partitioned 7mm drive in the caddy (500GB; 4 125GB partitions), WinXP comes up normally and the drive IS detected. If I put the system in standby and remove the caddy, upon resuming, Windows will notice the drive is no longer installed. Similarly, if I put the system in standby, install the caddy, Windows DOES see the drive. I'd say that the X300 works like some of the older Thinkpads where you had to use standby to install/remove the Ultrabay device. In other words, the X300 does not seem to support a hot-swap.
I'll try the same procedure with a BLANK, unformatted drive if I can later today. I think I have another 7mm drive that hasn't been used yet.
I don't have my sole X301 set up with any OS at the moment so I can't report what happens with that system.
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Re: X30x 7mm 2nd HDD Caddy Issues
Hopefully, over the weekend, I have time to take my X300 with the broken screen and hook it to an external monitor to try the tray out as well. It'd be kind of a shame to not use my one 7mm drive.
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Re: X30x 7mm 2nd HDD Caddy Issues
Some more data points...
- Unformatted, unpartitioned (new, blank) drive installed in the 2nd HDD caddy and WinXP booted --> Device Manager sees the drive. Disk Management offers to initialize drive. Everything looks normal under cold boot situation.
- Hot insertion of formatted, partitioned drive still is not automatically seen AND scanning for hardware changes in Device Manager after the drive is inserted into the Ultrabay still does not recognize drive. Placing the system into and then out of standby will cause drive to be detected.
- Unformatted, unpartitioned (new, blank) drive installed in the 2nd HDD caddy and WinXP booted --> Device Manager sees the drive. Disk Management offers to initialize drive. Everything looks normal under cold boot situation.
- Hot insertion of formatted, partitioned drive still is not automatically seen AND scanning for hardware changes in Device Manager after the drive is inserted into the Ultrabay still does not recognize drive. Placing the system into and then out of standby will cause drive to be detected.
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Re: X30x 7mm 2nd HDD Caddy Issues
So, a review from my side (partial at least)
Got this one from Ebay: click me
Put an Hitachi Travelstar Z7K500 inside of my Windows 7 X301, drive was recognized in the BIOS, I had to manually go to the control panel/administrative tools/computer management/disk management and initialize/format the drive. After that everything worked perfect. Installed some windows updates, rebooted the computer, drive keeps working fine.
Later I'll try if the caddy works in my Debian X301.
So it looks like a happy ending for me
P.S. Haven't tried hot swap yet...
Got this one from Ebay: click me
Put an Hitachi Travelstar Z7K500 inside of my Windows 7 X301, drive was recognized in the BIOS, I had to manually go to the control panel/administrative tools/computer management/disk management and initialize/format the drive. After that everything worked perfect. Installed some windows updates, rebooted the computer, drive keeps working fine.
Later I'll try if the caddy works in my Debian X301.
So it looks like a happy ending for me
P.S. Haven't tried hot swap yet...
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Re: X30x 7mm 2nd HDD Caddy Issues
Curiously, on my X301, I can see it in the BIOS, but it doesn't appear in the Disk Management at all so I can't initialize it.Tasurinchi wrote:So, a review from my side (partial at least)
Got this one from Ebay: click me
Put an Hitachi Travelstar Z7K500 inside of my Windows 7 X301, drive was recognized in the BIOS, I had to manually go to the control panel/administrative tools/computer management/disk management and initialize/format the drive. After that everything worked perfect. Installed some windows updates, rebooted the computer, drive keeps working fine.
Later I'll try if the caddy works in my Debian X301.
So it looks like a happy ending for me
P.S. Haven't tried hot swap yet...
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Re: X30x 7mm 2nd HDD Caddy Issues
I've been asked if I could disassemble the caddy and look for the controller, will try do on the weekend.
I'd be glad if somebody has some pics or instructions how to properly do this. Otherwise I just grab my best screwdriver and some patience
I'd be glad if somebody has some pics or instructions how to properly do this. Otherwise I just grab my best screwdriver and some patience
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Re: X30x 7mm 2nd HDD Caddy Issues
Well..... even worse; I just put it into my recently repaired X300 (both running Windows 7 Ultimate), and it was immediately recognized as the "D" drive! Irritating. Also, when I try to boot the X301 with the drive in the bay, Windows won't get past the black screen.
I've been asked the same thing, and I got as far as the removal of the screws. Unfortunately, there must be something else that's holding that bottom plate on there and didn't have enough time to research it right them. It might simply be 2 sided tape. I'll try to get to it this weekend.
I've been asked the same thing, and I got as far as the removal of the screws. Unfortunately, there must be something else that's holding that bottom plate on there and didn't have enough time to research it right them. It might simply be 2 sided tape. I'll try to get to it this weekend.
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Re: X30x 7mm 2nd HDD Caddy Issues
2nd report.
Hot swap doesn't seem to work. I need to re-start Win7 in order for Windoze to recognize the hard disk again (ejecting the drive is not an issue). For the record, my X301 is a 2776-H1U with ECC 1.05 and BIOS 3.16
Debian refuses to boot in my 2nd X301, he's picky I booted with a Linux Mint usb stick and the hard disk gets recognized as well.
Hot swap doesn't seem to work. I need to re-start Win7 in order for Windoze to recognize the hard disk again (ejecting the drive is not an issue). For the record, my X301 is a 2776-H1U with ECC 1.05 and BIOS 3.16
Debian refuses to boot in my 2nd X301, he's picky I booted with a Linux Mint usb stick and the hard disk gets recognized as well.
Same here, I removed the two screws, there is one more on the side, where the ejection mechanism sits. Maybe with further analysis I could get it out. But to be honest I don't feel like damaging it so I will pass this time . But if I see the same model for a good price I may get it just for the sake if seeing what's inside.schen wrote: and I got as far as the removal of the screws. Unfortunately, there must be something else that's holding that bottom plate on there and didn't have enough time to research it right them
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Re: X30x 7mm 2nd HDD Caddy Issues
I'll see if I can rip into one of my adapters this weekend (bought two just in case...).
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Re: X30x 7mm 2nd HDD Caddy Issues
I see the trays on eBay run around $20 or so, but not all have the Serial ATA/ThinkPad sticker, and I wonder if those might have different controllers from the ones that do.
Either way, I'd love to know which is "the best" (ie: hot swappable...if any).
Either way, I'd love to know which is "the best" (ie: hot swappable...if any).
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