Linux for raid recovery?

Hello all,

I've lost my ability to get into my raid drives. This all started with updating a mouse driver. Ending up with not being able to boot at all with the hard drives. I tried the Xp disk for start up and when it prompts me to insert my raid driver disk it starts to read it and stops. It prompts me to insert my disk again. I have tried every driver silicone image has on it's site.
I was reading a post of a guy named sub.mesa and he had this on the thread.

To try this, simply:
1) download and burn Ubuntu 9.10
2) insert CD in drive and boot from the CD
3) Go to System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager and install the "mdadm" package - this is the software RAID configuration utility you need
4) open a terminal and execute:
sudo mdadm --detail /dev/md0

This should list information about your RAID array. If this works, it means Linux has already configured your RAID array and you can use it to read data from. The next step would be mounting and copying the data to another disk, preferably a single large disk that can hold all data currently on the RAID.

He also stated that you must start this without being in a raid config IE conect the drives to an IDE spot on the MB. I have a silicone image raid controller card Do I need to remove it and try to let Linux recognize my Raid?

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks Brant