T530 Ultrabay CD Drive for HDD

Hey there,
I've seen a few topics about this issue before but they seem to remain unresolved aswell.
I'm trying to replace the stock CD Drive in a T30 with a SilverStone TS09 bay using a 1TB Western Digital HDD (which has been formatted and is working correctly). The T530 doesn't seem to detect it in anyway, even through experimenting via the BIOS and looking through disk management. On turning on the laptop, the light for the bay flashes on but then no further indications, and changing the SATA options in the BIOS caused a boot loop.
Does it definitely have to be a OEM Bay, as I was unable to find them and was told they aren't being produced anymore, or is there another solution I can try?
Thanks for any replies,
Tim.

Alternatively, you could use a CompactFlash card in an inexpensive PC Card adapter for CompactFlash for file transfers from a modern computer to the PowerBook 1400cs. There are also PC Card adapters for some other flash memory card types. The modern computer may be able to write directly to certain flash memory cards, or an external USB reader could be used.
If necessary, one can usually reformat a PC-formatted memory card to Mac without a problem. In this case, with System 7.5.3 on the PowerBook 1400cs, make sure that Mac OS Standard (HFS) is used on the memory card. Also, please note that it is not possible to write to Mac OS Standard (HFS) from a modern Mac running Mac OS X 10.6 or later.
It should be possible to transfer files on a PC-formatted card. Just keep any downloaded Mac application files unaltered as MacBinary (.bin), BinHex (.hqx), or StuffIt (.sit). Do not decode/decompress until on the PowerBook 1400cs.
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