Raid 0 (pair of 1GB drives) unable to mount or unmount.

I have a Raid 0 drive pair setup (1GB). I recently had to re-locate my computer. Did a normal shutdown and when I power it back up I got an error about the raid...  I went into Disk Utility and the raid volume shows greyed out. Cannot mount nor unmount the volume.
The individual drives pass verify and repair disk with no issues.  They even show 'Online' under the physical drive.  But when I click on the raid set, it gives me the option to Verify Disk or Repair Disk but when I click either... it just shows:
busSpecificKeys: 
2012-04-29 11:12:52 -0600:
In the Disk Utility Log.
Any idea's?
I have restarted several times.
Cleared PRAM.
Thanks!
Mac OS X 10.7.3 (11D50)
Hardware Overview:
  Model Name:          iMac
  Model Identifier:          iMac9,1
  Processor Name:          Intel Core 2 Duo
  Processor Speed:          2.93 GHz
  Number of Processors:          1
  Total Number of Cores:          2
  L2 Cache:          6 MB
  Memory:          8 GB
  Bus Speed:          1.07 GHz
  Boot ROM Version:          IM91.008D.B08
  SMC Version (system):          1.45f0

Of course I meant 1TB... oops!

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