software raid 1 issues

[Jack Howarth]

     I had some problems with grub not starting up on my software
raid-1 today. The machine has /, /var, /boot, /swap and /home
software raid-1 partitions on two identical sata hard drives 
connected to a promise chipset of a Tyan Tiger 7505 motherboard
using the promise-sata driver. The two drives appear in linux as...

Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: ATA      Model: WDC WD1200JD-00F Rev: 02.0
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: ATA      Model: WDC WD1200JD-00F Rev: 02.0
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 05