Interesting SATA power cable problem. Need help

[asamin]

So I've been working on doing this bit where I install ubuntu on a drive then dump and can basically clone the drive with a script to an arbitrary number of drives and kept running into this "ACPI error". I thought it was a bit weird cuz I've done the same thing on another computer and it was happy and fine. The computer I'm doing this on is a Dell Tower 3420 with a modified drive bay that allows quick switching of hard drives (It's for a lab at my work where you can basically just trash a drive by accident, clone the original drive onto a new one, pop it in, and go on your way). After hours of frustration, I decided to pull open the machine and plug the drive directly into it instead of using the drive bay and low and behold it worked perfectly.

 

After more rummaging around I found out that the drive bay is connected via a slimline sata power cable and a normal size sata data cable. The power cable only has two wires running to it (5v and ground) unlike a normal sata power cable with 12v, 5v, and two grounds. I'm assuming this is what's causing the issue and was wondering if anyone here has experienced this and found a way around it. I need to be able to use this drive bay as we have about 45 of these machines with this setup and replacing all the drive bays would be prohibitively expensive. All the sata to slimline sata cables I can find still only have those two wires running to the drive. Any ideas?

[DaCrewMaster]

18 minutes ago, asamin said:

So I've been working on doing this bit where I install ubuntu on a drive then dump and can basically clone the drive with a script to an arbitrary number of drives and kept running into this "ACPI error". I thought it was a bit weird cuz I've done the same thing on another computer and it was happy and fine. The computer I'm doing this on is a Dell Tower 3420 with a modified drive bay that allows quick switching of hard drives (It's for a lab at my work where you can basically just trash a drive by accident, clone the original drive onto a new one, pop it in, and go on your way). After hours of frustration, I decided to pull open the machine and plug the drive directly into it instead of using the drive bay and low and behold it worked perfectly.

 

After more rummaging around I found out that the drive bay is connected via a slimline sata power cable and a normal size sata data cable. The power cable only has two wires running to it (5v and ground) unlike a normal sata power cable with 12v, 5v, and two grounds. I'm assuming this is what's causing the issue and was wondering if anyone here has experienced this and found a way around it. I need to be able to use this drive bay as we have about 45 of these machines with this setup and replacing all the drive bays would be prohibitively expensive. All the sata to slimline sata cables I can find still only have those two wires running to the drive. Any ideas?

Is it a 6 pin sata slimline to a 15 pin sata slimline that is powering the bay or is it a 15 pin sata slimline coming directly from the PSU?

[asamin]

It looks like a 4 pin connector. It's not the whole connector as one, it uses a regular sata data cable just what looks like a 4 pin power cable.