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    NC8000 SATA disk in multibay caddy

    Discussion in 'HP' started by esdc_mc, Sep 4, 2008.

  1. esdc_mc

    esdc_mc Newbie

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    I bought a caddy on ebay that claims to adapt a SATA Hard Disk to work into my NC8000.
    The disk works when attached to the computer using external USB-to-SATA adapter (also bought on ebay) but it is not (completely) recognised when installed in the multibay caddy and inserted in the laptop.
    When looking at system hardware properties the disk does get recognised (ie there is the name appearing in the hard disk list) but disk manager cannot format or initialise it (it only list 4GB of HD space out of 64GB and it would not initialise them).
    I suspect there is some BIOS trick missing to make the computer recognise SATA.
    Anybody knows anything on the subject?
     
    esdc_mc, Sep 4, 2008
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  2. Bmcbeath

    Bmcbeath Newbie

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    Did you ever get your SATA drive to work in the multibay caddy? I just bought one and having the same issue.
     
    Bmcbeath, Jan 16, 2009
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  3. BK Phil

    BK Phil Newbie

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    I got mine to work - sort of. Sometimes it would show when I booted, and work normally, sometime it would not show (at all, not even in device manager). But even when it did show up, it would just as randomly disappear while the computer was in use. I suspected the caddy I got on eBay was faulty or unreliable, but never had the time to investigate, and eventually just gave up on the project.
     
    BK Phil, Dec 13, 2009
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  4. User Retired 2

    User Retired 2 Notebook Nobel Laureate NBR Reviewer

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    If you bought an ebay caddy with a Marvell sata-to-pata chip, then if it is running in the multibay (optical drive), it will be sharing the PATA bus with your HDD which is set as master. We've found in the 2510P thread the ebay caddy won't function as slave as explained here.

    Solution?

    The ebay caddy can be forced to be master by JAE50 pin 45+47, which would require you to set your primary HDD as slave to have them both working. Or ask newmodeus.com to supply you a 12.7mm sata-to-pata caddy using the 2510P circuitboard (with master/slave jumper) and jumper it as slave in the multibay instead.

    EDIT: With regards to stumos point about UDMA33, see the 33Mhz baredit mod to get full write speed.
     
    User Retired 2, Dec 13, 2009
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  5. stumo

    stumo Notebook Consultant

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    Yes I second what nando is saying. I have tried these caddies on an nw8000 and had the problems you all have. Then I modded them for slave and they work a treat. You may also have to do a few registry tweaks to get full speed too (UDMA33), this info is also in nandos links.
     
    stumo, Dec 14, 2009
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