Think I fried my external FW HD

Today I got the little spinning ball that wouldn't go away, so after the usual things to do I had to force restart by holding down the power button. I have 2 external LaCie firewire drives connected, nothing happened to one the other one won't mount. I read a ton of posts and solutions here, unplug for 10 minutes, reset the pram, different cables, computer, ports, but nothing works. The drive doesn't show up in Disk Utility and in System Profile it just says "unknown device".
So after reading some posts, because there isn't that horrible clicking sound you sometimes hear when drives goes bad, I'm thinking that the firewire bridge or controller or whatever is it is no good. Read that in another post that those things can go bad so I'm hoping that's it. So I'm going to try to buy a firewire enclosure and stick the hard drives in there and see if they mount. But my quesion is (afer all that finally a question!) the bad drive is a LaCie d2 500gb drive and it has 2 250gb drives in there connected together so that must mean they're mirrored or raided or stripped, I don't understand how any of that works. Ok so the question, can I take each drive out of the LaCie case, stick them in one at a time in another case that I'll buy and my data will still be there or would those two drives still need to be connected together to work? Or maybe I need to buy an case that would allow the 2 drives to be connected if that exists?
Speaking of cases, I can't find any that says it'll accept two drives. But I found this one at OWC for a single drive http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MEFW912U2/
Any thoughts on this case? Looks ok?
Thanks for reading thru my ramblings and any help is much appreciated!

Hi Dan Gilkey-
Although I certainly appreciate the star and all it's accompanying value, the cigar and shot seem much heartfelt. I must find the button to convert stars to smokes and drinks (;>)
The power supply bricks put out 2 or 3 or 4 voltages. That is why there are like 5 pins in the connector. So the blue light supply and the drive spin supply work, but probably the 5 volt portion that supplies the circuitry is shot.
Whatever. If you have more than one of these drives that you rely on tis a wise move to order a spare while you are at it. The bricks seem to fail frequently,
Don't forget that if that drive is still under the 1 year warranty LaCie should replace the supply brick no charge.
Luck-
-DaddyPaycheck

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