Any fix for non-booting back-up disks?

I have 5 Lacie back-up disks, all firewire, and all based on clones of my iBook (on 10.4.6).
Unfortunately, they've all followed the same pattern of decline - working perfectly for a year or so, then suddenly becoming unbootable. They appear as a bootable option in system preferences, but simply fail to boot - same too when the option key is held down at startup.
My last 2 disks went unbootable at the weekend, when I installed iLife 06 on the iBook (can't see any link between the events.)
Disk Utility assesses them all as needing no repair, but it sound like they're not spinning fast enough to start up. The blue 'Power-on' light doesn't flicker either, as it normally does when a disk is active.
They're 2 - 4 years old, still store data fine and mostly mount first time. The line-up includes three d2s (300GB + 320GB) + 2 Porsche mobiles (100GB). Slim chance I know, but since Google throws up several instances of Lacies becoming unbootable, for no apparent reason, has anyone found a fix for this?

conran:
The firewire bridge is the interface that enables the HDD to communicate with the computer. That's about all that I know about it. In my case, both drives to which I referred in my earlier post, were still functional. In the case of my LaCie I could feel the vibration of the HDD spinning, but nothing came up. You can read about it here. In the case of my son-in-law's HDD, nothing worked. I was not even sure if the drive would work if I pulled it. But I put it in my enclosure and it worked fine. Everything was still on it the way it was when he last used it.
Those LaCie Porsches do look pretty neat. I still have my case, although I don't know what I would do with it. Buying a firewire bridge by itself would have cost more than the enclosure cost. So I don't have a neat shiny box anymore, -- just a blue box. But it works! If I want to look at a neat shiny box I can set that up next to my computer and look at it; but it only makes me sad.
Incidentally, the computer's firmware has nothing to with it. LaCie had a firmware update that I downloaded, but my firmware was up-to-date.
Cheers
cornelius

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