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    Slow mounting Seagate SATA drive in ultra bay adapter

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by TucsonMTB, May 7, 2009.

  1. TucsonMTB

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    I recently purchased a couple of Seagate 7200 rpm SATA drives on eBay. A 320GB drive from a volume seller and a nominal 100GB pull from a ThinkPad.

    Both mount very slowly with continuous drive activity when used in the ultra bay adapter. I've never had enough patience to let the 320 mount. The 100 (more like 75 with the service partition taking 18GB) takes several minutes to appear as a drive letter. Both mount fine if the T61 is turned on with both in place. Adding and removing the jumper to limit speed has no impact. The CPU is mostly idle.

    The BIOS was just updated. Hitatch drives mount normally, that is quickly. Yeah, it's Vista Business, but I have the indexing service shutdown.

    I am frustrated enough that I just ordered a couple of Hitachi 100GB drives.

    Suggestions appreciated!

    All the best,

    TucsonMTB
     
    TucsonMTB, May 7, 2009
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    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    Where did you source you adapter from? Some of the aftermarket ones can have issues.
     
    ZaZ, May 7, 2009
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    Interesting thought. I don't recall the source. Possibly eBay, but it appears to be genuine and came in Lenovo packaging, if my memory serves. It works fine with Hitachi drives that bear the ThinkPad labels.
     
    TucsonMTB, May 8, 2009
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    Update: It appears that the Seagate ST9320421ASG, despite being a very nice large drive with G-Force protection does not initialize as well as Hitachi drives when plugged into an Ultra Bay Hard Drive Adapter. The Hitachi drives that arrived today work exactly as expected. I have tried it with and without the speed limiting jumper. It makes no difference in the drive's enthusiam for mounting. Or, perhaps I should say in the T61's enthusiasm for mounting it. :rolleyes:
     
    TucsonMTB, May 11, 2009
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