P55-GD85 - Marvell 9128 RAID stuck in rebuild - paused

Testing the SATA III controller to see if its worth using in a real world RAID 1 config.  I tested a disk loss and the RAID array properly went into degraded mode.  When reattaching the second disk I entered the RAID BIOS and set it to rebuild the array.  The rebuild started then paused at 1%.  Its been paused for hours and won't continue.  I've tried rebooting to Windows 7 and also let it sit in the RAID BIOS screen to see if it will rebuild with Windows not running.  Same thing, stuck in paused.
I am aware that paused rebuilds has been a problem with other controllers in the past.  Is this a RAID BIOS issue, Marvell driver issue???  Please help.
My P55-GD85 is running V1.1 BIOS and the latest Marvell driver from MSI downloaded yesterday.
I spoke with Marvell technical support and although unhelpful they did tell me that there is a newer version of the Marvell RAID BIOS that MSI should be using.  That version ends in 1014.  My board is using 1013 currently.  Can someone look into this please???

Quote from: Mike on 22-March-10, 20:15:34
Claykin, 
I emailed a contact within MSI and received the response below.  The MSI contact asks that you try the 1.24 beta bios.  You'll need contact MSI support.  List what the issue is, link to this thread, and let them know about my contacting MSI and the response.  Use this link for support: http://www.msicomputer.com/msi_user/ts_form.aspx
Hi Mike,
Can you ask him to try the latest beta bios v1.24 first?
If that doesn’t help, can you ask him his configuration details, maybe we can reproduce the issue here.
Best regards,
MSI Customer Service Dept.
I tried V1.24 beta BIOS and it has the same 1.0.0.1013 Marvell BIOS.  MSI should consider upgrading to a new revision from Marvell.

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