Hard drive not visible after restart

I have a question which has nothing to do with Arch but is rather na hardware question. I have a laptop with two hard drives, one of which is SSD. Suddenly the SSD drive is not visible (even in BIOS) after the OS restart. When I shutdown the laptop the drive is visible and I can boot into Arch but if I restart the laptop (either from Windows or Arch) it's not visible.
Any thoughts or suggestions? I have the latest version of BIOS...
Thanks in advance.

It must be some bad combination of bugs in the SSD and motherboard firmwares.
What happens if you swap the drives between bays?
What happens when you reboot and then boot Linux from the second disk or some pendrive? Does the kernel detect this SSD? Look for this in dmesg:
[ 1.753159] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m1024@0xf9fffc00 port 0xf9fffd00 irq 22
[ 1.753162] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m1024@0xf9fffc00 port 0xf9fffd80 irq 22
[ 1.753164] ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m1024@0xf9fffc00 port 0xf9fffe00 irq 22
[ 1.753166] ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m1024@0xf9fffc00 port 0xf9fffe80 irq 22
[ 1.753168] ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m1024@0xf9fffc00 port 0xf9ffff00 irq 22
[ 1.753169] ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m1024@0xf9fffc00 port 0xf9ffff80 irq 22
[ 2.058188] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 2.058221] ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 2.058316] ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 2.058346] ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 2.213403] ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[ 2.213427] ata6: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[ 2.213717] ata2.00: ATA-8: INTEL SSDSA2BW600G3D, 4PC10362, max UDMA/133
[ 2.213719] ata2.00: 1172123568 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)
[ 2.213725] ata6.00: ATA-8: INTEL SSDSA2BW600G3D, 4PC10362, max UDMA/133
[ 2.213726] ata6.00: 1172123568 sectors, multi 1: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)
[ 2.214063] ata6.00: configured for UDMA/133
[ 2.214075] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133
EDIT:
Are BIOS or SSD firmware updates available?
Last edited by mich41 (2014-11-13 20:43:50)

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