Secondary hard drive not restarting on wake from sleep?

I recently installed an second hard drive in place of my DVD drive in my late 2008 MacBook. It generally works great as storage paired with a smaller SSD drive as a primary but from time to time when the laptop wakes from sleep the storage drive doesn't always come back online. This is more of an annoyance to restart to get it back active again as it holds my iTunes and several other files I use quite often. I've reseated the drive to no avail. Is their possibly a setting somewhere that needs to be changed that I'm unaware of?