Windows boot hangs at logo when 2nd SATA drive attached

Hi,
I have a system with a K9NBPM2-FID mobo. 
I have several IDE drives and two SATA drives installed.  The two SATA drives are a 150GB WD Raptor and a 320GB Seagate.
I've had this system for awhile, and the Raptor is installed in the computer case, and originally, I had the 320GB Seagate in a trayless SATA enclosure (which is in the case).  When I had that configuration, the system would occasionally hang on the Windows logo screen (the one with the scrolling bar), and I'd have to pop the 320GB out, and then it'd reboot ok.
I thought that maybe the trayless enclosure might be getting flaky, so when I doing some work on the system recently, I stuck the 320GB drive into the enclosure and connected it directly to the mobo via a new SATA cable.
Since then, I've noted that "hanging at boot" behavior more often :(...  And, now that the drive is in the case, I can no longer just pop the 320GB drive out anymore :(...
The 320GB drive itself seems to be ok, i.e., once the system boots, it seems to work ok.
At this point, I'll probably pull the drive out of the case, and put it back into the trayless enclsure, but I was wondering if anyone might know what the problem might be or suggest how I could get this system to boot reliably with the 320GB drive plugged in?
Thanks in advance,
Jim

Hi,
I don't know if this may be involved, but I was doing some googling, and found this:
http://blog.tfanshteyn.com/2007/09/system-freeze-and-sata-command-queuing.html
The Seagate PDF for the 320GB drive specifies that it does support NCQ:
http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/datasheet/disc/ds_barracuda_7200_10.pdf
I checked the driver settings for the SATA drives under Windows Device Manager, and I noticed that "enable command queuing" was checked on all of the SATA channels, but I figured I'd try disabling that "enable command queuing" and see what would happen.
I've done several reboots after that, including powering completely off, etc., and the system appears to boot ok, now, even with the Seagate 320GB drive plugged into the trayless enclosure.
I'll keep any eye on this, but I'm hoping that maybe that was the reason for the problem.
Later,
Jim

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