W520 Ultrabay HDD ejects or dismounts on sleep or hibernation and doesnt reconnect

W520
4270-CTO
I purchsed an aftermarket ultrabay. its the genuine Lenovo part that fits this machine, not the one with the extra space, so there is no action/movement of the harddrive. Im using a 320 WD Black Scorpion and running my VMs off it.
I dont have any problems until I put the computer to sleep or it goes into hybernation. When that happens and I wkae the computer back up, the drive is not recognized and never comes back. The only way to get it to come back is to physically eject the ultrabay (slide the lock switch to unlock position and pull it out) and then snap it back into place.
This is becoming very problematic as it means I have to shut down all my VMs every time i need to put my computer to sleep or my VMs crash.
I opened a ticket with Lenovo Premium Support but they basically had me run diagnostics on the harddrive, which I really dont think has anything to do with it.
I updated all the drivers for RST as suggested on another thread as well as almost all drivers on the machine and still no luck.
any ideas on what I could do to resolve this? I got this machine mainly for virtualization and not being able to use the ultrabay to its fullest extent is pretty frustrating. would really like to get this working smoothing.
thanks in advance,
Matt
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Ok, I think this is resolved.
The trick is that in order to conserve power, the computer wants to put that port (i think thats a correct reference) to sleep after a period of inactivity and only wake it up when its active again. In the case of the DVD/CD-ROM drive thats putting a new disc in or starting up a disc thats already there.
There is a power setting available in the Power Manager called "Automatic optical drive power off" that disables this power saving. By default this is set to "disable" which effectively means the drive is powered off after a time of inactivity. The catch is this setting is only available when the DVD/CD-ROM drive is in the bay.
To resolve for the ultrabay with HDD:
Insert the combo drive in the bay
Enabling the setting
Replace combo drive with the ultrabay
I havent done any extensive testing but putting the computer to sleep and waking it back up the HDD is available and spinning.

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