Macbook 2.1 and Western Digital BPVT input/output errors

Hi. After a hard drive failure in my macbook I tried upgrading to a 320GB Western digital BPVT hard disk. Unfortunately the macbook can't seem to read the disk properly when plugged in internally and it shows the capacity as 2.3TB and gives an input/output error when I try to erase the disk (it does show correctly the Description WDC WD3200BPVT).
The hard disk itself works. If I plug it into the sata caddy my windows 7 PC can see it, format, write and delete to it. AND if I plug the same caddy into the macbook as an external disk it can read it and write to it etc. The only difference I can think of is the caddy doesn't support S.M.A.R.T and as soon as the disk is put in internally I get the 2.3TB capacity and input/output errors. That said I put the hard disk in a HP laptop and it recognised the hard disk internally and installed the OS ok.
I tested the macbook with a scorpio blue BEVT 500GB and that works perfectly. So I know it's not the controller or capcity issue. Is it the BPVT? People on the discussion say this drives works fine, I'm just not sure if I'm missing something. I was fixing this computer for a friend and not 100% when it comes to Macs.
Has anyone seen this issue before? Is there anything I can do to get the hard drive to work in the mac..
Hardware used:
Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD3200BPVT Hard Disk Drive,320GB, 5400rpm, 8MB Cache, SATA 3 Gb/s
MacBook 13" circa mid 2007 (model 2.1)

Hi, unfortunately not, I never found a fix. I had to swap the disk for a BEVT.
The BPVT worked in a 2009 MacBook. It appears to be the older 2007 MacBook can't read a BPVT, I tried a lot and couldn't get it to work.

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