Hdd not reconized by bios t30

I have a T30 and am replacing my hdd, however I get a error code " PXE-E61, PXE-M0F media test failure check
cable" upon boot up. I checked BIOS setting and my hdd is not reconized at all. I've tried other hdd's with no success.
I know some BIOS you can manually configure the hdd setting in BIOS but this one wont, any ideas-help please

Glad everything works for you. It was the caddy in this thread, guess we'll never know 100%, but it does seem to be a factor.
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