T61 - 320GB Hitachi - Drive Bay - intermittent disconnect

Hi,
i have a T61, 7665-A56 model, and i have a drive bay adapter.
my 2nd hard disk which i use with the bay is Hitachi, HTS54332L9A300 5400 RPM or HDD : 5K320-320
its 320GB
when i plugin the bay, and start my vista 64 bit it is able to detect the hard disk, but if i try to work on it in the first few mins, the drive just dissapears. i need to plugout my drive bay adapter and plug it back in for the OS to detect again.
i downloaded the latest bios and installed onto the rom :
Version: 7LETB9WW (2.19-1.08) Release Date: 2008/06/11
Anyone have similar issues?

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