RAID Drive not showing

Hi there,
We have an Xserve (Late 2006) running an email server with a RAID5 setup. We had to reboot a week or so ago due to a crash, and since then the Harddrive is not showing up on the desktop, in the finder, in disk utility, or anywhere really. It's like the drive has just dissapeared. However, the server functions fine, and all drives and the drive set are reporting as "Good" in Raid Utility.
Also, if I navigate to say, the Applications folder, it works fine, just the actual Raid Set is not showing up though
Anything I am missing here?

We have a similar problem.
We had a crash as well. Now the raidutil shows us that all drives are reliable and in good condition. But a task is started: "Long-running task started: Task=RedundancyScrub"
This is indeed a very long task.. Now running for approx 16 hour and progress is at 32%..
But the big problem is that the volumes are not mounted.. We do not see the volumes in Diskutil.
Is there a way to force mounting of the volumes?
Other question: can anyone explain what 'RedundancyScrub' means and does?
thanks for any help.
Regards,
Ronald
This all happend on a Xserve Quad core intel Xeon with Hardware RAID
Message was edited by: rblaas

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