At 2nd IDE hard drive to dv9000?

I seem to recall people mentioning when they went to buy drive brackets from HP for the second drive bay, sometimes they randomly get IDE adapters instead of SATA, and HP is like too bad.

I don't see the IDE adapter on the part list, does anyone know if I want to get one how I could do so?

Alternatively, does anybody have one from one of those mistakes that they'd be looking to get rid of on the cheap?

 

I would think regardless of IDE drive and IDE adapter, it wouldnt work on the dv9000 platform because the chipsets are SATA based. Although I could be wrong on this.

 

I had been under the impression that somehow the laptop supports both PATA and SATA, though I'm not sure. I had thought it's just whichever adapter you get.

I am certain that everyone so often when you order the SATA part from HP, they send the PATA adapter. A few people have posted on this board saying it happened to them, and HP basically told them too bad, take a hike.

 

No, you need SATA. Both the AMD and Intel series dv9000's use SATA. With the dv8000's the AMD series used PATA and the Intel's used SATA.

 

Oh, interesting. So the people who got PATA from HP were really double screwed then. Thanks for the info, so I can avoid purposefully screwing myself!

 

All of the dv9000 models are SATA, so make sure you don't buy IDE adapters or you will be wasting your money. You have to buy the mounting bracket and the SATA adapter to add a second HDD to your laptop.

 

The adapter does come with the bracket kit. As you say, some people were getting the IDE connector with theirs, a mistake on HP's part. I got mine earlier this year and thankfully I had the SATA connector.