See a Disk Utility RAID on another Start Up?

Hey
we made a mirrored RAID with two FireWire externals. How can we see the RAID set while booted from another Start Up Volume - without the Holy Hard Drive Trinity "Initialize, Ignore, Eject" coming up?
Is there a pref file that need so to be copied over? BTW the set was created while running Server 10.4 - the other start up is 10.3+ - in case that makes a difference... (it's one partition tho.) Or do we say "ignore" that repair with Disk Utility?
Tim
MacBook (BootCamp), various Macs and servers   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

RAID of any time created with Tiger are not backward compatible with Panther.
For that you would need SoftRAID or to create the RAID under Panther. Quite a few changes and improvements went into Tiger (and again w/ 10.4.4 I believe).
And, to really do FW800 RAID you want each drive on independent bus/channels as well (I had to invest in two PCI controllers).

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