> If it's a new disk, you don't need to zero anything. That's to clean up > previous RAID array data. > > That doesn't really answer the question of what is going wrong but at > least it gets you up and running. > > Tim. >
Well, I take it back. The FAQ does say to zero a crypto partition. I never did... Brian is right. You need to create the partition inside the RAID partition and zero the first meg of that one. Tim.

