Raid Drives on SATA shows BADMBR

I configured my two Seagates on the Promise SATA connectors as "stripe" and even "mirror" and it was fine within the Promise Bios.
When I get into Windows XP Professional and start my Partition Magic 8, it shows the drives as "yellow" color and "BADMBR". Even if I use the Partition Magic 8 rescue disks, it's the same.
I decided to change my bios of the Promise SATA connectors to "As SATA" and used Seagate's utility software "Seatools" and run both the "quick test" and "full test" on both the drives. Both tested ok.
The strange thing is, I just ignored Partition Magic 8 and proceeded to format my hard disk raid with XP's format. After formatting, I am able to copy data into the drive.
Can someone tell me, what could have gone wrong? I am on Bios version 2.0 now.
I had tried to use Maxtor's "powermax" utility but it could not detect the two SATA drives.
Hope someone could give me some suggestions.
Thank you.

I had been using it all the while. In fact, I originally had the two seagates SATA drive on the Promise controller, both as "stripe" and "mirror" before I got hold of the WD Raptors. My two 120GB hdds (striped) were on the ICH5R and I had moved them over to the Promise controller, so that I can hook up my WD Raptors onto the ICH5R. After each movement, I use Partition Magic 8 to prepare the partitions before I write back the data.
I'm sure that Maxtor's "powermax" will solve my problem if it can recognise both drives as I had IDE drives which had bad sectors and giving me problem and after I go through writting "zeros" to the drive with "powermax", it worked fine.

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[size=18]TheCyberDude[/size]

[size=18]UPDATE[/size][/b]
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