Yes were are idiots, well it took me three times to make the software raid with mdadm before i realized what i was doing wrong. Once your done creating your raid, /dev/md0 is working correctly, edited fstab, and mounted it, it never crossed my mind not to reboot it right away. You first have to check ….
#cat /proc/mdstat
and make sure mdadm isn’t trying to sync the devices before you can reboot the computer.
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if your stuck with /dev/md_0p1, just
#mdadm –manage –stop /dev/md_0p1
there was no point in failing, and removing the devices from the raid, because it kept giving me an error. So i basically said screw it and stop the device.