T61 and SATA Ultrabay adapter

Over the course of several months and with different versions of Windows, I've tried to get my T61 (8891) to work properly with the SATA Ultrabay adapter.
With some SATA drives, it seems to _almost_ work - it will be recognized properly and even read the file system, but there is still enough of a glitch that files get corrupted.
On my most recent attempt and with most previous attempts, the Ultrabay and main HDD LEDs just light up solid and the drive in the Ultrabay is never recognized at all. My most recent try was with a Seagate ST9500420ASG. I did try limiting the speed to 1.5 using a jumper on the drive, but that didn't make any difference.
I am able to use PATA drives in the PATA Ultrabay adapter just fine - no problems at all.
This is a pretty big limitation, though, because all the new faster and higher capacity drives are SATA in addition to all SSDs being SATA.
Has anyone else had a similar problem? Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
Michael

Kevin,
Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately I've tried several times with drives formatted or cloned first in USB enclosures, but none of them have worked properly.
Some drives do seem to work better than others. I have had marginal success with a couple of drives in that it will read the file system and the Ultrabay drive access light doesn't stay on constantly. However, there still seems to be an issue with even these drives.
For most drives I've tried, the drive is not recognized at all and / or the Ultrabay HDD access LED lights up constantly, which can't be good.
It appears that Lenovo has sold promoted and sold hardware that is not actually compatible, at least with some T61s. It is listed as compatible with my T61 (8891-CTO), but has never worked properly. I even ordered and tried another Ultrabay SATA adapter thinking something might be wrong with that particular adapter, but neither one works properly.
Thanks,
Michael

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