Disk Utility RAID Issue

I'm trying to determine if the problems that I'm encountering are a software issue or a hardware issue.
I'm setting up a Mac Pro with Leopard and have four Maxtor 6G160E0 160GB hard drives that I'm trying to set up as two Mirrored drive sets. Everything seemed to go fine, created the two mirror sets, installed Leopard, configured and tested two user accounts and Office 2004, then updated everything to the latest version. When done I shut it down planning on moving it to it's final home tonight.
But, when I turned it on both mirror sets were degraded - all four drives were still recognized as RAID slices but came up as failed in the RAID tab. I saw no errors reported in the log so I assumed that those two drives were faulty. I shut down, moved the good drives to bays 1 & 2 and rebooted.
First reboot gave me a prohibition symbol instead of the usual Apple. Powered down and on and it booted fine but the second drive came up as a failed RAID slice. Rebooted again and both were fine.
I reinstalled the two "failed" drives and reformatted them - both reformatted fine and mounted without problems. I unmounted the new partition just in case, but, when I tried to rebuild the RAIDs I get the following in the error log:
11/1/07 7:26:00 PM Disk Utility[141] Preparing to erase : “Untitled”
11/1/07 7:26:00 PM Disk Utility[141] Partition Scheme: GUID Partition Table
11/1/07 7:26:00 PM Disk Utility[141] 1 volume will be created
11/1/07 7:26:00 PM Disk Utility[141] Name : “Untitled”
11/1/07 7:26:00 PM Disk Utility[141] Size : 149.1 GB
11/1/07 7:26:00 PM Disk Utility[141] Filesystem : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
11/1/07 7:26:00 PM Disk Utility[141] Creating partition map.
11/1/07 7:26:03 PM Disk Utility[141] Formatting disk1s2 as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with name Untitled.
11/1/07 7:26:06 PM Disk Utility[141] Erase complete.
11/1/07 7:26:12 PM Disk Utility[141] Unmount of “Untitled” succeeded
11/1/07 7:26:31 PM Disk Utility[141] Rebuilding RAID
11/1/07 7:26:31 PM Disk Utility[141] Filesystem: Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
11/1/07 7:26:31 PM Disk Utility[141] RAID type: Mirrored RAID Set
11/1/07 7:26:31 PM Disk Utility[141] RAID set name: “Yorktown”
11/1/07 7:26:31 PM Disk Utility[141] RAID set status before rebuild: “”
11/1/07 7:26:31 PM Disk Utility[141] RAID chunk size: 32K (default)
11/1/07 7:26:31 PM Disk Utility[141] Mirror Auto Rebuild: Disabled (default)
11/1/07 7:26:31 PM Disk Utility[141] 2 members
11/1/07 7:26:31 PM Disk Utility[141] RAID Slice (disk0s2) - Online
11/1/07 7:26:31 PM Disk Utility[141] Maxtor 6G160E0 Media (disk1) - New
11/1/07 7:26:32 PM Disk Utility[141] Error rebuilding RAID: Unrecognized Filesystem.
11/1/07 7:26:33 PM Disk Utility[141] RAID failed: Unrecognized Filesystem.
I'm at a loss at the moment. I am leaning towards bad drives, but FOUR bad drives all at once is suspicious.
I've searched for similar issues and found none so I thought I'd check here and see if anyone had any ideas.

G'day Zeekm,
Thank you for that. I did this and it seems to work. The Disk Utility GUI does not seem to work.
Hope this helps some one,
#Checked the RAID status
root# diskutil checkRAID
RAID SETS
===============================================================================
Name: Server_HD
Unique ID: 7E31E20E-F53D-4D76-AD37-139C4E1440AB
Type: Mirror
Status: Degraded
Size: 1000070610944 B
Device Node: disk2
Apple RAID Version: 2
# Device Node UUID Status
0 disk1s3 BAC72F86-B05F-4B0F-97D3-58A6207E7DFA Failed
1 disk0s3 2BFB55BB-EFF9-438C-A1F9-A8ED7A93D385 Online
===============================================================================
#Told it to resync
root# diskutil repairMirror disk2 disk1s3
Note: Syncing data between mirror partitions can take a very long time.
Note: The mirror should now be repairing itself. You can check its status using 'diskutil listRAID'.
temp:~ root# diskutil listRAID
RAID SETS
===============================================================================
Name: Server_HD
Unique ID: 7E31E20E-F53D-4D76-AD37-139C4E1440AB
Type: Mirror
Status: Degraded
Size: 1000070610944 B
Device Node: disk2
Apple RAID Version: 2
# Device Node UUID Status
0 disk1s3 9D955C85-7EC0-4E92-848A-62D9F7C12EED 0% (Rebuilding)
1 disk0s3 2BFB55BB-EFF9-438C-A1F9-A8ED7A93D385 Online
===============================================================================
Hope this helps,
Cheers,
Arthur

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