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Are there any guides to repurposing the removable "Serial UltraBay" which houses the CD/DVD/Blu-ray drives?

I have a T430s, and I've been wanting to stick an SDR in that bay for years. But I'm not sure where to start, and I don't see many technical details about how it connects to the mobo on this wiki (admitted I didn't look too hard).

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It's essentially just SATA with some extra proprietary bits for adding a second battery there instead and a thingy to make it easier to pop out.

Oh cool, I didn't realize they made battery packs to fit in there. Have you ever seen a pinout listed anywhere?

For the battery portion I have no idea. For the SATA portion it's just literally the same connection as a SATA laptop optical drive.

Browse the site I linked, it shows you all the peripherals you can install. One is just a drawer, heh. I usually keep a cigarillo in there just for fun.

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