SUB MESA IS MY NEW HERO!
By booting with Linux, I was easily able to view the contents on my RAID 0 drives, which were from another chipset entirely. (See my OP.)
I understood that I would not be able to boot up the old system in toto (given what I had done), but I did wonder about this idea that the data on the drives were totally inaccessible. In my case, there was not a question of damage or corrupt drives. Simply, that I had naively thought that I could transfer the drives from my previous system, which was an AMD CPU & MSI mobo, to my new Intel CPU/Asus mobo without a thought about compatibility or methods of coupling them.
However, though I have little knowledge, the idea that these drives (no matter how they are configured) are simply the same magnetic material in the same mechanism left me baffled as to how they were complete inaccessible through non-esoteric means, i.e., "data recovery methods."
Anyway, thank you, Sub Mesa for your knowledge of theory and practice and I hope your message becomes more well known. I know that I will pass it on.