Just a swag: Is the power supply up to the task?  I have had a marginal
power supply have difficulty spinning up multiple drives on occasion (i.e.
boots fail sometimes).  Might be a quick check if you have another to swap
in to test.  

Kelly  
>  Thu Mar 21 2013 12:41:46 PM CDT from "Yaron" <tclug at freakzilla.com> 
>Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Software RAID issues...
>
>  this is a brand new setup - brand new machine, brand new OS install, brand
>
> new RAID array and drives, so nothing can really be out of date (: 
> mdadm.conf does not have an "ARRAY" line, but from what I've heard it 
> doesn't need to have one.
> 
> Like I said, you reboot enough times and it works fine. I really think 
> it's some kind of timing issue. I do hear the drives spin up and the 
> correct LEDs on the array box DO light up. I'm not seeing any error 
> messages, nor do I know where to look for them, is the problem.
> 
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