Lenovo T61p and Seagate Momentus 7200.4 POST problem in UltraBay

Two different T61ps. Mine is a 6459-CTO model. Two different Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500GB drives. System boots fine, even with a second hard drive installed in the Ultrabay SATA adapter, most recently a Samsung Spinpoint 500GB 5,400rpm drive in mine, but before that 320GB and 200GB drives. No problems with any of those drives.
Install a Seagate 7200.4 drive in the UltraBay adapter though and turn the system on, and the system won't complete post. The hard disk activity indicator stays on solid. The drive activity light on the UltraBay stays on solid. And the system doesn't leave post.
Unplug the UltraBay and the system boots fine. The drive can be used if plugged into the system via USB in an external USB/SATA case, and appears to work fine as far as I can tell in this mode.
I have updated the BIOS in this T61p to the latest and the problem persists.
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You might try limiting the data transfer rate to 1.5 Gbits per second by setting the jumper if you have one. That's the limit that the UltraBay adapter is designed for. Unencoded that limit would be about 1.2 Gbits per second. The 7200.4 has a very cool internal maximum transfer rate of 1.23 Gbits per second, which might explain the intermittent booting issues.
Hope this helps. If it does, a report back before Newegg restocks this drive would be useful.
Don

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