Tecra R940 with SSD Windows 7 boot failure

My company has purchased Tecra R940 laptops and are replacing the existing HDD with Kingston SSDNow 200 V+ 120GB SSD drives. On a test unit after installing the SSD, the laptop was rebuilt with our corporate image (Windows 7 x64) which completed successfully.
Post build however a number of issues are apparent:
1. Occasionally during a reboot, the laptop will post and then hang at the "starting windows" screen before the Windows logo animation is displayed and with the hard drive light on solid. After a period of time an Windows recovery is attempted and eventually an error reported:
Status: 0xc00000e9
Info: An unexpected I/O error has occurred
This issue does not occur at every boot but once in every 2 or 3.
2. The following error is logged in the Windows System log
Source: ATAPI
Event ID: 11
Description: The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort0
I have tried the following in order to resolve the issue:
1. Upgraded the R940 BIOS to latest available (6.40).
2. Confirmed that the BIOS SATA Controller Mode is set to AHCI.
3. Confirmed there are no available SSD drive firmware updates.
4. Installed the latest Intel Rapid Storage Technology Driver from Toshiba (11.0.0.1032).
5. Tried an alternate SSD. Same errors noted, so not a faulty SSD.
6. Tried the SSD in a Toshiba Portege R930. In this case the errors above are not apparent.
7. Reinstalled the original HDD. In this case the errors above are not apparent.
8. Confirmed a 2nd unit (with SSD installed) logs the same Event ID 11.
My testing has left me at a point where I believe there is something wrong at the R940 end with either hardware or software that does not like SSD's.
Has anyone resolved a similar problem or have any thoughts on resolving this?
Thank you in advance.

> Reinstalled the original HDD. In this case the errors above are not apparent
So using an HDD everything works properly
So the controller seems to be OK.
I searched for Even ID 11 error description and the Event ID 11 source disk means The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk0\DR0
There are many people having such issue with different notebooks and different SSD drives.
There is also different recommendation to solve this:
Someone could solve this my SSD drive firmware update
The other one solved this by running a full SMART scan with repair (reallocation of unstable sectors)
There is also an newer version of the Intel Rapid Storage Technology Driver available on Intel page.
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http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=21730

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