[ltp] Step up T60

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Helen Borrie wrote:
> >> Whichever way I go, I'm led to the next question:  adding more drives.
> >> I understand that the optical drive caddy on this machine can be
> >> removed and replaced with a HDD caddy.  As the T60 is still on its way,
> >> I don't know whether the Ultrabay presents a "bus-neutral" interface to
> >> the caddies and the Lenovo site is *singularly* unhelpful. I see that
> >> both SATA and IDE caddies are available...I'm assuming (until better
> >> informed) that I'll need a PATA caddy if I want the option to recycle
> >> the existing PATA drive from the no-name box.   Does anyone know for
> >> sure whether the Ultrabay interface is bus-neutral? 
> >
> >Don't quite understand what you mean by that. To insert a PATA drive
> >you'll need the PATA adapter.
> 
> Sure, the PATA adapter (caddy) for the drive.  But my question concerns
> the interface (adapter) between the caddy and the ultrabay.

The bay doesn't have a bus-neutral link.  In PATA-only bays, it has a PATA
link.  In SATA-only bays, it has a SATA-link.  And I think (some?)
T60/Z60/Z61 have both links in the connector, so it would just be a matter
of getting the right caddy.

But the caddies are large enough that you can place a sata/pata chip inside,
which is how I *suspect* the SATA caddies for the T4x work.

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  Henrique Holschuh