Cannot Startup from LaCie FW800 Clone

Hello,
I have a LaCie 2Big Triple 1TB Drive that I use to make clones of my System using Carbon Copy Cloner. I made a new clone yesterday and now cannot boot from the external LaCie cloned drive. The drive shows up in the Preferences as a bootable drive but will not boot up the computer.
When I restart with the LaCie selected as the boot volume, a small folder icon flashes between smiley face and a question mark 2 times, then the computer proceeds to boot up from the internal system drive, not the external LaCie.
Before I made my clone with CCC I erased the LaCie drive as usual using Disk Utility. I am using CCC 3.1.3, OSX10.5.6.
Any help much appreciated!
Bernard

No, but there is a rotating selector to pick which RAID scheme to use (RAID 0, 1, JBOD, etc.).
Like I said, I have made a clone using each of these settings and none works. It take a little over 4 hours per clone operation so this is a huge time commitment I have wasted so far....very discouraging!
Thanks for the help!

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