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Why won't my second SATA hard drive initialize in Disk Utility?

I have a Macbook Pro 2007 A1260 2.4 GHz--Optibay Caddy. I removed my optical drive and put in a IDE to SATA hard drive caddy and plugged in a 500GB 7200rpm Hitachi hard drive, but when I bring up disk utility to initialize it, I get errors. The device comes up as a "326GB Hidachi" and says can't write to the last block. When I try to restore the drive from the primary drive, it gives a broken pipe error. The primary drive is a 500GB 5400rpm Samsung. The craziest part about this is that the results are the same if I switch the drives and put the Samsung into the caddy and the Hitachi into the primary position. So far I've replaced the data cable to plug into the logic board AND replaced the logic board (the previous one had an unrelated power failure). I am using Mavericks, which so far has had no problems. The only thing I haven't done is buy a new optibay caddy for the hard drive. I know I'm using the correct one because I bought a different kind that actually had a SATA to SATA and wouldn't even plug into the board. What else could I be missing?

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Your machine has a Serial ATA 1.5 Gb/s BUS. If this is this the drive you got: HGST Travelstar Z7K500 HTS725050A7E630(0J26005) 500GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 2.5" Internal Notebook Hard Drive Bare Drive

It is only backward compatible to 3 Gb/s.

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Both hard drives are 1.5/3.0 Gbps. In other words, both hard drives have indicated in their specifications 1.5 and 3.0 Gbps bus speed.

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I'm going to try and replace the optibay caddy to see if that works.

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So, I purchased a DualDrive caddy from powerbookmedic and it works now. The dualdrive caddy I was using before was one I got from an eBay retailer who never responded to questions. I got a refund. So, now both drives work, and I'm going to restore the system drive to the new drive and switch them so I have the 7200rpm drive as the system drive and the 5400rpm drive as the secondary data drive.

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