6560b notebook - no sata-III ssd drives detected - hardware problem - HP employee needed

hello,
I'm one of the authors of this thread about the problem statet in the title.
As the current forum thread might be slightly misplaced under 'Notebooks>Updates', I opened this thread here to get contact to one of the experts from HP.
We need technical support. We have tried every possible solution to fix this problem.
As several owners of the 6560b have experienced, sata-III SSD drives don't work in any of the two internal drive slots of the 6560b.
Most recent firmware updates on ssd / notebook are installed. The SSD drives work fine in other computers. The problem is reproducable. The drives are not correctly recognized on BIOS level at boot.
There is no known 6560b notebook running an internal sata-III drive.
Some of the drives that are reproducably failed to be recognized:
Kingston HyperX 120GB - Sata-III
Corsair Force3 120GB - Sata-III  
Corsair Force GT 120GB - Sata-III
Intel 510 - Sata-III
OCZ Vertex 3 - Sata-III
OCZ Agility 3 - Sata-III
Sata-III drives appear to work and are bootable* via the external esata connection.
(verified by one user)
This, however, is no usuable workaround.
A short summary of the impact of this bug:
-it appears to affect every notebook
-the problem is not limited to SSDs with sandforce chips, one manufacturer, one drive size or one bios version of the 6560b.
Just to repeat this: the chipset as well as the sata-chipset are from Intel. Yet modern Intel drives (510 series) fail to be recognized. Therefore, this problem cannot be 'simple' chipset incompatibilties either, as Intel would not ship SSDs that have incompatibilities with their <6mo. old chipsets.
The problem does not directly relate to the hardware failures of sata-II ports known as 'intel-sata-bug' as the affected models include newer mainboards of revised steppings.

I have the same problem on my 6560b notebook. A brand new Kingston HyperX 240GB - Sata-III is unable to boot. Drive is not seen/detected at boot time by BIOS. BIOS is latest available (F.50). Chipset is Sandy Bridge HM65.
UEFI has been enable. I have to degrade manually, in BIOS settings, SATA3 (6Gbps) to SATA2 (3Gbps) for the drive to be usable. But perfs are not here for that kind of drive, so I'm very upset about that.
Any BIOS fix appreciated.

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