desparate for some raid help

i did have a mobo that had dual channel raid(albatron px845g pro II), i striped accross two identical disks. that mobo died, i now havean albatron px845pe pro II it seems impossible to get the controller to recognise two paralel ata drives, and i suspect that as the documentation hints it is not possible (tho the albatron site says different)
My problem is this: i have all my docs etc on the two drives. i really need to get this data off. is there any way of accessing this data (perhaps a software raid) or would it be possible to image the disks, restart with a clean install with the hd's just on standard ide channels, then when i can get hold of a board that does support raid properly copy the drive images back and start again as i had previously had the machine set up. i really need to get the machine uop and running by the end of the day raid or no raid. so i need to now if its possible to save any of the data on these disks or what my options are.
hope this makes some sense and someone can offer a little advise.
many thanks.

i have tried both drives under every configuration you can imagine, jumpers location on the cable, etc. if either one is plugged in anywhere on the current controller then it detects that drive, however if you plug both in it still detects just the one drive depending on wich is set to master or slave and if both set to master it still only detects one. what your getting at is even if this raid conroller worked with two drives, chances are i still could not read my data written by another controller, i assume there's no way of doing this by software at all? so basically i must start again and maybe scrap using raid altogether. a shame when i spent extra to get it.
as to the links: http://www.albatron.com.tw/product/PX845PE_Pro_II.php for the board specs from albatron where it says words to the effect of one raid 0,1 channel supporting up to two devices, however in the promise controller manual (i cant find a link for this one though) it says mainboard supports up to three raid devices 9(one paralell ATA and two serial ATA) also it says things like 'the controller will not accept any slave devices on the raid channel only master devices will be found(implying the need for two drives set to master, which does not work) there are a few places that refer to drives(plural) in the setup guide however i feel these are simply translation errors. thanks very much for your help. it looks as if my data is lost. im sure a wise man says back up more often, and the annoying thing is if it had been one day later i would have had a backup. never mind.

so do you think (even though its a different promise controller) that if the mobo worked it would be able to reckognise an existing array?
it does seem that it would be pointless to have an array that only worked with serial and parralel drives similtaneously(surely they would be very different just by there very nature and not create a great raid array)
thanks very very much for your help.

I have recently changed to a new mobo and newer promise raid controller I had no problems. Have you checked your bios settings to make sure controller is enabled? From my experience I would also say defective mobo if not bios settings.for instance boot up device should be hdd-0 or raid and udma channels are turned on. oh, and for your info I went from the promise raid 20265 controller to the promise raid 20276 controller using two maxtor 80 gb ata133 harddrives.