It's no longer empty... I have already ripped the data to this RAID5....

Thank you for the information.I was able to create a RAID5 volume but only after completely uninstalling SoftRAID - not just the drivers....However af...

Uffff... Data Rescue 5 for Mac has been successfully recovered

That's not quite the case... In the system preferences, in the security section, I have a check mark next to 'Other World Computing -> updated'.......

Thank you. I'll check it out

EDIT: Creating RAID0 on these drives works... I would like RAID5 though.