Mac Pro - Unable to install SL on disks in Bays 3 & 4

After a debacle this morning, I reinstalled SL tonight after re-cloning the target disk from my Leopard boot drive. Booting from the DVD, I note that all 4 internal SATA drives have a GUID partition, and three boot Leopard just fine. The last 2 drive bays are not available for a SL install though - they had been a RAD volume, but I demoted both drives to get rid of the RAID. Each drive booted Leopard fine, but could not be used for the installation. Is thee some reason why I could not select them as the install target? There do seem to be issues with SL and RAID volumes in Mac Pro's, but once the drives wee demoted, I've have thought that would be irrelevant. Thanks for any ideas!

I'd already done that, being unable to think of anything else. I guess RAID is unreliable for now in SL.

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