Re: [Thinkpad] T6x and PATA 2nd HDD

Stephan Andre' wrote:

> On Wednesday 16 April 2008 13:00:32 Jon Etkins wrote:
>
>>Hi, folks.
>>
>>I have a colleague who has just received a new T61p, and would like to be
>>able to mount his old PATA drive as a second HDD in the UltraSlimBay. We
>>have tried a T4x PATA 2nd HDD caddy (62P452) to no avail, which was hardly
>>surprising since the T6x is SATA.
>>
>>I thought there were two different 2nd HDD adapters available for the T6x -
>>one for SATA drives and one for PATA, but I cannot seem to find one for
>>PATA drives. Perhaps I'm mis-remembering; perhaps there were both SATA and
>>PATA adapters available for the PATA T4x series but only SATA for the T6x?
>>
>>Can anyone shed some light on the situation? He'd much prefer an
>>integrated carrier, but if none exists I guess we'll have to resort to a
>>USB2.0 solution.
>
>
> If there is a pata slimbay caddy, I'd love to hear about it.
>
> But why not take the pata disk and copy the contents to a sata
> disk and be done with it? If the original disk is old, then that
> might be another reason to jump off it to a new one.
>
> --STeve Andre'

Didn't someone say just recently that you could take a 2nd HDD adapter
from an older T-series (T40 and prior?) and use that in a T6x? If I
recall the comment correctly, the bay connector is the same between the
model ranges and only the HDD-to-adapter connector is different. That
means you should be able to use an older PATA drive in a T6x. This is
all from memory though. I'll have to check around to see if I have a
2nd HDD adapter for a T-series that I can try in our T60.

Rob

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