Ultrabay Slim SATA HDD Adapter

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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

Ultrabay Slim SATA HDD adapter

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