RAID creation problem,

When I try to create RAID sets, both mirrored in Disk Utility, one set works perfectly while attempting to create the other set results in the error message: "Creating RAID set failed with error: Could not find RAID"
I've tested the disks with Techtool Pro and there were no errors found on either. I have also used the repair/rebuild function in DiskWarrior on both of them as well as the repair permissions and repair disk functions in Disk Utility.
After the above error the 2 drives involved do not show up in the finder, but are still present in Disk Utility as unmounted disks. In order to act on them again they have to be initialized/formatted. After doing this they show up again, but any attempt to create a mirrored set with them continues to fail.
Is there anything that can be done to fix this? Or are these bad drives that are good at hiding it (no bad sectors, all tests+).

From your comments, I guess you are using 4 disks and trying to create two Mirrored RAIDs at the same time? If that's the case, you might try just creating 1 set using two disks, then quit Disk Utility. Launch Disk Utility, then try creating the second set using the other two disks. If that doesn't work, you might try rebooting in between RAID creations. If that doesn't work, you might try the work around seen here;
http://forums.creativecow.net/archivethread/71/480772
"2) Create 1st stripe from two devices, don't do anything to the other two yet. Shutdown Mac and turn off the power to the devices of the 1st stripe, leave the power on to the two un-stripe devices. Boot and stripe the 2nd pair, shutdown Mac. Turn power back on to the 1st stripe and reboot (all power to devices are on). Both stripes should be on the desk top."
Personally, that 'solution' seems a little dated. Disk Utility has been able to create more than one set for a while now. I just tried it. I have a Stripped BootRAID using two disks, I used a partition from another internal disk and an old external disk, connected by USB2, to create another Stripped RAID. Then I broke the new Stripped set and created a Mirrored set. I didn't have any problems creating either. I had two stripped RAIDs on a FW800 G4 running Tiger a couple years ago...
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