No Boot from Internal SSD RAID 0  ( partitioned )

6 Core Westmere MAc PRo 10.6.2
I have 2 OWC Exteme PRo RE SSD drives 200 Gig each -
one in lower optical bay , the other one in HD bay .
I made 2 exactly same partitons on each of those ( using Disk Utility )
and created Striped RAID on two pairs of those - using this workflow:
http://macperformanceguide.com/Storage-HowToSetupRAID.html
( so I have 2 volumes Boot and Scratch )
Everything works fine - extremely fast .
I can do things on those volumes no problem .
So I made a Super Duper clone of my system
harddrive into "boot" SSD volume .
What I get is a " forbidden " sign while trying to boot from that .
I was able to boot from my SSD in JOBD setup ( before Raid O of partitions )
Any suggestions how to make my 400MB /S SSD raid0 volume bootable ?

Usually you do not want your scratch and system to be on the same hard drive, even if shared in RAID0.
6-core Westmere is Mid 2010 and comes with a later build of OS X than 10.6.4.
You'll also see SoftRAID recommended on MPG and what I prefer to use for arrays.
While you are experimenting, I would use the entire two SSDs in RAID0, formatted with 10.6.4 Disk Utility. And ask OWC what they think is up.

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