@David, from what you describe this sounds like something is blocking the 
device completely. And that could potentially be to a few reasons. However the 
call done by mdadm --examine should be a fairly basic read of some sector(s). 
That rather would tell that the one virtual disk is blocking. Which could be 
missing an interrupt or not having received one the first place.
Debugging those kind of things is very painful, as there is never much hard 
evidence. The problem usually happens earlier and then the process is being 
blocked messages get spitted out by anything that directly or indirectly is 
waiting on the IO. As I mentioned earlier there have been patches to address 
some interrupt issues. So it would be helpful to know what exact kernel version 
you are running. Also to confirm whether it also is a m1.xlarge or a different 
kind of instance. Another question would be whether you are bound to stick with 
Maverick or could try and move to Oneiric completely (or at least Natty).

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