Ultrabay Slim SATA HDD Adapter

This is an adapter to connect an additional hard disk drive to the Ultrabay Slim.

Features

Takes any ThinkPad SATA 9.5mm thick, 2.5" HDD

NOTE!

This SATA HDD adapter only works with select ThinkPads as listed below, for other machines with UltraBay Slim, use the PATA base UltraBay Slim HDD Adapter instead.

Part numbers

Marketing PN: 40Y8725 FRU PN: 26R9246

Linux support

The adapter contains a PATA to SATA bridge chip, which means that although the disk is SATA it connects as a PATA (IDE) device.

If connected at boot time, the drive is normally located at /dev/sdb

Supported with

ThinkPad R60
ThinkPad T60, T60p, T61
ThinkPad Z60m, Z60t, Z61m, Z61p
ThinkPad X60, X60s with UltraBase X6
ThinkPad Advanced Dock

Unsupported use with

The adapter has a black plastic grommet at the back that restricts its use to the 60 series ThinkPads. Some people have successfully removed this grommet with a pair of channel lock pliers, or sliced it off with a Dremel after which it will fit into older ThinkPads like the T40 series. This works because the adapter actually bridges the SATA HDD to PATA as those older machines have no SATA support.

This has been tested with the following ThinkPads, although this is obviously not supported!

ThinkPad T40, T40p, T41, T41p, T42, T42p, T43, T43p

Ultrabay Slim SATA HDD Adapter