Thank you for the tip, i haven't tried the test disk utility yet.

I was able to delete and rewrite the array via the bios fast build utility, but no os is found when i let it try to boot from disk, and the drives are still inaccessible and reporting errors when i run gpart.

I was going to try the mrecover2 utility last night, but i found that the replacement power supply i used does not power the floppy drive for whatever reason. It's not the floppy drive itself as I switched it out for an alternative and still no power.
So i have to find another power supply or find some way to power the floppy drive, then I can try mrecover2 or norton disk utilities.