SATA 3 disk wont work in my Optibay

When I bought my MBP 2011 I removed the superdrive and put in a HDD caddy into the optibay. I placed an SSD SATA3 in the primary slot and the original disk in the optibay. This worked fine.
Last week I bought a 2TB disk which is 15mm and as such needs to go into the primary bay to fit. When I placed the SSD SATA 3 disk in the optibay slot, the disk is not recognised. However if I swap the 2 disks around (without replacing the back) they both work fine.
Has anyone had this problem? I have checked and both the SATA connection are 6gb.

i do have this issue in mbp 2011, in which both main and optipay reports 6bps speed, but when we try crucial m500 ssd in optibay it is not stable. Accessing the ssd is slow and beach balls always.
check out
http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Solid-State-Drives-SSD/Problem-with-Optibay-SSD-on-M acbook-Pro-Late-2011/m-p/133142#M38101

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If anyone is kind enough, maybe you can tell me and others why suddenly the BIOS setting was changed by itself causing all these problems, and why “P-ATA Only, SATA Keep Enabled=Yes” works but “P-ATA + S-ATA, SATA Keep Enabled=No” does not.
Maybe your CMOS Battery is running low and it is time to replace it.
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Should I now tweak the Windows registry to change the drive letter of the SATA disk from D to E?
Try to change drive letters via the Windows Drive Manager:
http://www.mvps.org/marksxp/WindowsXP/driveltr.php
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Problem 2: I just bought an internal Hitachi Deskstar 640GB SATA disk. And I have a vacant orange SATA connector on my mobo. Can I add it together with the existing 2?
If it is a SATA-II Drive, you will probably have to force it into SATA-I Compatibility mode first (check the hard drive user manual for jumper settings or firmware switches).
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I used to have a Samsung DDR PC2700 512MB memory module and during the last week I added a Corsair DDR PC3200 1GB memory module, both on the green slots (not the purple slots). It caused my PC to freeze (keyboard and mouse not responsive) every now and then. So I pulled out the Samsung one and it has been working fine. Some said one has to use memory from the same manufacturer with the same size and same everything.
Exactly. Mixing different memory modules causes problems in many cases because the exact same settings will apply to both modules at the same time. What works for the one module may not work so well for the other one.
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Just in case you happen to know anything, please jot a line.
That is either related to the monitor itself or to the video card. It may also be related to a problem with the driver or improper screen resolution settings.
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Problem 5: Some of my USB ports do not work or only work intermittently. For example I plugged in my wireless adaptor into one of them and it sometimes would say “USB Device Not Recognized”.
What ports? Front Panel or Back Panel?

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