RAID problems continued

[chu tes-mail jpl nasa gov (Eugene Chu)]

Hi Folks,

Here is where I'm at in fighting with the RAID problem on my system.

To recap:  It is an API UP2000 system with an adaptec 2940 U2/W
controller with an IBM boot disk and two Seagate 73 GB drives combined
in RAID0 stripe.  It had RH 7.0 installed, with kernel version
2.2.14-6.0smp.  The system would hang after a lot of activities to the
RAID partition (/dev/md0).

I have been advised that the kernel and disk drivers probably have bugs,
and are therefore causing the system hangs.  I downloaded the 2.2.17
kernel package from alphalinux.org, and after a few iterations, was able
to get a kernel that would almost boot.  It gets to a point where it's
trying to start the RAID, and an error occurs.  The only messages I get
are:

*error occurred during RAID startup
*check syslog and /proc/mdstat for more information

and then it prompts for root password to log into single user mode.
At this time, the /var partition has not yet been mounted, so I do
not find anything in messages file regarding this, and /proc/mdstat
has only the following:

Personalities: [2 raid0]
read_ahead not set
md0: inactive
md1: inactive
md2: inactive
md3: inactive

This is my first attempt at building LINUX, but I think I selected all
the right support options from make xconfig.  If I exclude the MD
drivers, the system boots up, but I obviously can not access the RAID.
Is there something else that's going on that i need to fix?

thanks in advance for any assistance.
eyc