<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Robert L. Harris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robert.l.harris@gmail.com">robert.l.harris@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Try a different power source to run the drives in your correct system<br>
otherwise. Might be the<br>
power supply isn't pushing enough juice. Ran into that once. <br></blockquote><div><br>I agree with Robert. Sounds more like the PS is bad. Hard drive spin up is a current hog. Pull power on one drive and see if system moves beyond bios. If so, replace power supply. If not, swap pulled power connection and retry. It's possible that there is a single almost bad drive that's sucking all the power and that won't show up with dual external enclosures.<br>
<br></div></div>Depending on the power supply, there may be only a single 12 or 5 volt rail feeding board and drives. So a flaky drive will block a boot. It can also be a flaking board doing the same thing.<br><br>Probably a good idea to put both in an external container and do a back up now before things go really bad.<br clear="all">
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