[KLUG Members] linear raid troubles

[Dirk Bartley]

I have 2 40 gig hard drive that were configured as a linear raid array
to have one large 80 gig device.  This is in a system where I had some
hardware troubles and I ended up losing the entire operating system
drive and unfortunately, the entire /etc/ directory.  So there is lots
of important information on this device that I am afraid may be lost. 
So I have attempted to recreate the device with the following raidtab.

raiddev /dev/md0
  raid-level            linear
  nr-raid-disks         2
  nr-spare-disks        0
  chunk-size            4
  persistent-superblock 1
  device                /dev/hdg1
  raid-disk             0
  device                /dev/hdh1
  raid-disk             1

It is not starting up.

If I execute 

raidstart /dev/md0
my command prompt comes back to me and /proc/mdstat looks like

[root@edgesrv samba]# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [linear]
read_ahead not set
unused devices: <none>

if I execute 
raidstop -a
I get 
[root@edgesrv samba]# raidstop -a
nothing to do!
usage: raidstop [--all] [--configfile] [--help] [--version] [-achv]
</dev/md?>*

So, I may have tried to start the raid device with the wrong parameters
before.  I can't remember exactly what I changed, could have been
raid-level 0.  Have I lost all of the information that used to be on
this 80 gig raid device.  Please tell me all is not lost, humor me for a
while.

Dirk