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Not having Amazon Prime is no hardship: I ordered my umpteenth HDD optical bay adaptor on Saturday with a given delivery day of Tuesday; arrived yesterday.
The plan is to fit it to PavNAS with a 1TB drive in for extra storage (as well as faster-than-current-USB storage).
Fitted; computer is weird: starts up, and Explorer won't start…
Shut down: hangs while shutting down.
Hard power-off.
Start up: hangs at HP logo screen with ever-spinning circle.
Hard off and on: same.
Repeat: “Preparing automatic repair” for ages then hangs at blank screen.
Removed adaptor: normal behaviour.
Now I'm wondering: is the adaptor shit… or is the HDD not blank, and perhaps even contains an OS…? Amateur not to check before fitting.
One more test of it fitted before I head up three flights of stairs to plug it and check: hangs at start.
Time to check the contents of disk AND try the adaptor with another HDD.
Adaptor with same HDD in decrepit T410: works ok…
Adaptor with same HDD plugged in via USB optical drive adaptor (are you counting the adaptions there?): nowt.
1TB HDD connected via USB SATA adaptor to other PC: ok.
Back at PavNAS, same setup: hangs at startup.
Adaptor + randomly-selected 320GB HDD (after off-on cycle to cancel Automatic Repair): starts, but disk doesn't show in explorer or disk (though I can feel it spinning).
So, it worked in another laptop; time to try the adaptor in another laptop, and try another adaptor in PavNAS.
T410 + new adaptor + 1TB drive = works, but needed reformatting, weirdly
Old adaptor with 240GB drive in PavNAS = works
So, logically, next try the 1TB drive in the old adaptor in the PavNAS, right?
… hangs on startup.
I wonder if this laptop just doesn't deliver enough power to the CD bay to run this, quite big, drive. Looking at first at HDD specs, this almost made sense: the 1TB drive needs 800mA of current, whereas smaller drives need less than 500mA
…but the optical drive I took out of PavNAS needs 1.5A. What is going on?
Next, I'll put in one of the 500GB drives that was connected via USB to PavNAS, and see if that works. Then perhaps the 1TB drive can be swapped to the USB method.
Old adaptor + 500GB drive works in PavNAS
New adaptor + 250GB drive in T410 does the same thing that happened to the 1TB drive: needs formatting…
