Having problem to do "Recovery HD" on Mac Pro?

Hi,
I had Lion 10.7.3 installed on my Mac Pro with four internal harddisks connected to an Apple RAID card. I was trying to re-install Lion by using Lion's "Recovery HD" feature. So I shutdown my Mac Pro and reboot by pressing "Command+R" keys to start up the "Recovery HD". I then selected "Reinstall Mac OS X" from the first startup screen. After confirming the License agreement, I was presented with "Selecting the disk" for installing OS X Lion. This is where I had the problem.
My Mac Pro has four internal harddisks connected to an Apple RAID card. The first disk (1TB) was dedicated as boot disk with OS 10.7.3 installed along with the Recovery HD partition. The other three disks (2TBx3) were setup as one Volume RAID for data only.
And for the Lion re-install on the Select disk screen, it only showed two choices:
1) Recovery HD (which is grayed and cannot be selected),
2) DATA-01 (which is the 3 disks RAID for data only).
There was no boot disk to select from. I don't know what happened why the boot disk was not there. So I returned to the first screen and use Disk Utility to examine all the disks in my Mac Pro. It showed both the boot disk and the DATA-01 (RAID volume) were there. But as soon as I went back to re-install Lion, it only allowed me to select my RAID volume. The boot disk with the original Lion installed was just not there.
Any help what might have happened? Thanks.

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