RAID 0 Roaming Disk Problem - Way To Recover?

I have the problem generally described in this archieved thread [RAID 0|discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2041271&tstart=-3] and will describe it below, the thread is more for point of reference.
A few days ago the RAID went down (RAID 0)along the same lines described in this thread [RAID Error|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2141573&tstart=0]
which in a nutshell, threw this error
Drive 3:5000cca349e4743d missing - Replace immediately or acknowledge loss of RAID set RS1 and associated volumes.
I immediatelly pulled out all the hard drives and cloned them in external hardware enclosures. At that point none of the drives had a fail message. During putting the drives back in I noticed that a drive sled looked slightly warped and would not fit back in properly. When the sled was in the drive would not show up, although two of the drives appeared as "roaming."
Got new sleds, and put the drives in. Could not get it the machine to boot in Safe Mode or properly from an external drive which was hooked up via Firewire (This was the system drive at the time of the freeze. It showed up as bootable when holding down the option key) or the clone of that system when placed in the machine. (I was on the phone for awhile with Apple Tach Support, and by the end it seemed it was a RAID card issue.) So I made an appointment for the Apple Genius Bar. I pulled out the old system drive with data, images and the rest and did a bare bones install of 10.5.1 (which came with the machine) and rebooted before bringing it into the Store, and the computer booted fine.
The "problem" RAID set was paritioned into two volumes. On my reboot after the install of the OS (and without using the RAID Utility to change anything, the RAID drives were simply in their bays), the two volumes are still there, sort of, as R2V1 and R2V2. Additionally all the drives SMART Status and RAID status are fine. One of the three drives is roaming however,
was and is being reported as RS1. Additionally, each of the drives in the RAID reports SMART status as fine, and each of the three drives report a RAID status of good. Additionally the RAID 0 had two volumes and both are reported currently as R2V1 and R2V2 and as being "good" and one of the drives has status of roaming. This is the furthest I have gotten trying to save this. I did not want to shut down the machine on the off chance that there is something else I can do right now before bringing the machine into the store.
The following pictures may make it easier to follow
!http://www.dvdstepbystep.com/Raid2.jpg!
!http://www.dvdstepbystep.com/raid.jpg!
The tower is an Early 2008 tower and I upgraded the firmware on the RAID card with the newest firmware, which required 10.5.8. The base install is back to 10.5.1 on the reboot after reinstall. I am also waiting to hear back from tech support.
Didn't realize the Apple RAID Card had a bad rep until this happened. Sheesh. Missed that one
But if there is anything to try right now, it would be great.

A A P L wrote:
Good luck.
Thanks
I know that I have been pretty happy, and when I did lose one drive, it did what it was supposed to do.
I did have it RAID 5 at one point, but set it up for internal RAID 0 for the renders, and it has been fine for a long time. Urgh.
Early on, there were battery warnings all the time, and the battery did not charge unless the Mac was ON, which was totally stupid.
Hmmm, sounds alot like mine there.
I found that out two Christmas vacations ago when we do our two-week shutdown.
Came back in, and could not use the Mac for two days while it charged.
They've since changed it, and thankfully, it's been good since.
Good luck, let us know how the new card works out.
SB
Thanks again and will do. Bought a bunch more hard drives and if it comes back, the first thing I do is back up the 2+ Terrabytes plus of renders (all ongoing projects), slap new drives into the tower, make it RAID 5 and to heck with the hit on speed. Have enough externals to reconfigure things, now just keeping fingers crossed

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