RAID Utility & RAID Card

I have my new super-duper Mac Pro tower 3.2 GHz with RAID card and I installed 4 identical 1 TB drives and made a RAID 5 array. Now, the issue is that I have had two power outages, and my UPS seems to have missed picking them up (I have a new UPS now for the tower), but here is the deal, I get the bad event, clear the event log, "initialize" the array (~1 day), Verify the array (~3 days) and RAID Utility can still give me the message that the array is "bad".
So, I have, in sequence, a failure, a rebuild, a verify, a reboot (clean) and it goes back and complains it needs to rebuild from scratch even though it already has done so ...
Also, clearing the errors does not seem to clear the errors from the log ...
So, is it me ... or does the RAID Utility stink?

FeistMeister wrote:
Um, that was the point.
I did a rebuild between the crash and the next one, and a verify ...
I missed that.
And after the second crash I did a complete initialize and verify with clean bill of health and all green dots....
Now I am 3-4% into the initialize which will take until tomorrow sometime to finish ... then I can reverify ... but the point is that it does not seem to want to forget the past ... and "clearing" the log does not seem to make it forget the past either ...
Well, it still boots off the array, and seems to run fine so I suppose I should not be TOO annoyed, but I expected better from Apple ... and better speed off of a dedicated $800 RAID card ... Oh, and the battery is fully charged ....
I have never used RAID, probably because I never needed, but also I have read here and there of the requisite maintenance needed, and of problems similar to yours.
I wish you well.

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