I've done this without scrubbing the drives. You state that the raid controller was lost, so I am assuming it is hardware. Is it a card? If the controller blew on the motherboard you pretty much need an identical mobo. If it is a card and no longer is found, replace the card. If it is a mobo raid, make sure that it didn't get reset to off in the BIOS before looking for another motherboard.
That said, all you have to do is go into the raid utility and tell it to mirror, it will tell you that all data will be destroyed on the second drive, say yes and it will rebuild. Based on disk size, I would suspect it will take some time to rebuild the mirror.