A31 2nd SATA-HDD inside Ultrabay

Hi.
First to say i´m from germany. So please excuse my bad english. I´ll try my best...
Also i´m new to notebooks in general.
My System
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
OS Service Pack    Service Pack 3
DirectX    4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)
Motherboard
CPU Typ    Mobile Intel Pentium 4M, 1800 MHz (18 x 100)
Motherboard Name    IBM 2652M3G
Motherboard Chipset    Intel Brookdale i845MP
RAM    512 MB (DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Typ    Phoenix (10/18/06)
Storage
IDE Controller    Intel(R) 82801CAM Ultra ATA-Speichercontroller-248A
SCSI/RAID Controller    XMASSCSI SCSI Controller
HDD    Hitachi HTS723216L9A360 (149 GB, IDE)
HDD    IC25N040ATCS04-0 (40 GB, 4200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/100)
Optical DEvice    AXV CD/DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device (Virtual DVD-ROM)
Optical Device    AXV CD/DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device (Virtual DVD-ROM)
Optical Device    TEAC DW-28E (8x/8x/24x CD-RW)
S.M.A.R.T.-Status    OK
Here´s my problem.
I bought a SATA-Ultrabay-Adaptor to use it for a second HDD in the Ultrabay-Slot.
I bought the red marked SATA (see above) and put it in the left Bay. Therefor the Floppy-Drive had to go. But the A31 didn´t start - "Operating System not found".
I swapped the CD-Drive with the SATA-HDD-Adaptor. Now the laptop starts the way he should, but performance on the SATA-HDD is very poor. Only UDMA2.
I updated the BIOS and the Embedded-Controller but the problem still exists.
IDE Controller: Intel(R) 82801CAM Ultra ATA-Speichercontroller-248A
1.
Why wont the laptop start when the HDD is in the left Bay-Slot?
2.
Is there any chance of getting the HDD working with better performance? It could run in UDMA6-Mode.
Regards,
Norbert

Hi, Nycto.
Thanks for your reply.
Yes. It is a SATA Adapter.
This one on EBAY (Germany): SATA-HDD-Adapter
The Hard-Drive is the Hitachi
This one: SATA HardDrive
The Infos about my system came from "Everest Home Edition".
I too recognized that the SATA is identified as an IDE-HDD. But I thought that this is ok cuz the Adapter is SATA -> IDE.
Jumper
The boot-HDD (PATA) is jumpered as master.
The SATA doesnt have any jumpers or pins where i maybe could put a jumper onto.
Another SATA
I would have tested another SATA, if i would have had one in hands. But i haven´t.
Broken Adapter
Thats what I thought first too. Thats why I bought a second one (see above) from another distributor.
But the problems remains the same.
BIOS-Settings
Boot-HDD is the built in PATA.
I excluded all other shown Devices in the Boot-Menu with the "!".
Another strange thing I found out today.
In the Device Manager the Hitachi SATA is shown as Device 0 at the Secondary IDE-Channel.
But I also have "Tune Up Utilities" for doing some other kind of things.
There ( under System Information -> Drives" the Hitachi SATA is shown as Slave Drive on the Primary IDE-Channel.
Now what the heck is going on there?
Is it possible to attach some pictures to my postings?
I haven´t got a webspace where I can host some images.
-- Regards

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