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[PaulW]

Ah! - not that same as rebuilding an array that has broken in use due to drive failure.  'Proper' unix seems to be much better than Linux in this scenario, to the point we always use hardware based raid on Linux.  Also, generally, x86 type hardware does not lend itself too well to recovery.

This was a mirrored array where 1 drive crashed.

I'm guessing it wasn't the boot drive then

was actually  

When I set up software raid on mirroring, I always mirror both drives exactly, and install grub to both hdd's.  If it fails and wont boot, 5 minutes with the gentoo minimal install cd and its back up, then just a case of copying over the partition structures from the existing 'good' drive to the new blank one and rebuild the array so it mirrors across.

As you said though, alot of distro's its crap at doing it...