hello, the drive ordering thing is explained by Duncan already. I just want to point out that if you want to have your root partition on the raid too and if you are using the new superblock version(>=1), you should be aware of the fact, that it is not possible to auto-assemble the array during the boot process. Neither the normal raid-autodetect nor a kernel command line like raid=noautodetect root=/dev/md1 md=1,/dev/sda2,/dev/sdb2,/dev/sdc2 will work. In this case, you have to use an initramfs to assemble your root-raid, or just use the old 0.90 superblocks, which is the default, I think. I just wanted to tell you that, because I had exactly the same issue and setting up the initramfs was quite a lot of work (and IMHO only poor documentation available).
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