optical bay caddy hdd not detected

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optical bay caddy hdd not detected

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Hello
I have been playing with mum's old acer travelmate 8572t.
I replaced hdd with ssd and installed mint 21.
While i was at it I tried using a caddy to add an hdd in the optical bay.
The system does not detect the drive at all.
I tried 2 different drives that work via usb, both formatted to ext4, neither are detected in the optical bay.
The laptop has bios and the drive does not show there.
One thing I noticed was with the optical bay caddy inserted the machine will not boot from the ssd, it just hangs.
Not important to fix really but any advice to possible solution would be great :).
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Re: optical bay caddy hdd not detected

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Where did you get the caddy from and was it specific to your laptop model? No issues here with an HDD in the DVD bay in a thinkpad T430 (I have four of them).
Thinkcentre M720Q - LM21.3 cinnamon, 4 x T430 - LM21.3 cinnamon, Homebrew desktop i5-8400+GTX1080 Cinnamon 19.0
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Re: optical bay caddy hdd not detected

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hello
The caddy is a HDDCADDY I originally had in an acer aspire.
Do they need to be specific to the laptop model?, didn't think of that.
I have another generic one also that doesn't work either.
The HDD one has the toggle to 'bridge' pins but no success on any position.
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