RE: md array not starting?

["Jan Johansson" <j2@mupp.net>]

>Are /dev/hdd1 and /dev/hdc1 both partitions of type (hex)fd?
>
>--Mike Bird

[Followup to previous mail]

I looked in /etc/init.d/mdadm-raid  (enclosed below)

And saw that the script choses between mdadm and mdrun.

Funny thing is that if I execute "mdrun" it starts up my arrays.
Any clue to why mdadm fails, and mdrun works? 

cookiemonster:~# cat /etc/init.d/mdadm-raid
#!/bin/sh
#
# Start any arrays which are described in /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf and
which are
# not running already.
#
# Copyright (c) 2001-2004 Mario Jou/3en <joussen@debian.org>
# Distributable under the terms of the GNU GPL version 2.

MDADM=/sbin/mdadm
MDRUN=/sbin/mdrun
CONFIG=/etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf
DEBIANCONFIG=/etc/default/mdadm

test -x $MDADM || exit 0

AUTOSTART=true
test -f $DEBIANCONFIG && . $DEBIANCONFIG

case "$1" in
    start)
        if [ "x$AUTOSTART" = "xtrue" ] ; then
            if [ ! -f /proc/mdstat ] && [ -x /sbin/modprobe ] ; then
                /sbin/modprobe -k md > /dev/null 2>&1
            fi
            test -f /proc/mdstat || exit 0
            echo -n "Starting raid devices: "
            if [ -f $CONFIG ] && [ -x $MDADM ] ; then
                $MDADM -A -s -a
            elif [ -x $MDRUN ] ; then
                $MDRUN
            fi
            echo "done."
        fi
        ;;
    stop|restart|reload|force-reload)
        ;;
    *)
        echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}"
        exit 1
        ;;
esac

exit 0
cookiemonster:~#