diff -urN raidtools-1.00.3/raidlib.c raidtools-1.00.3-rgg/raidlib.c
--- raidtools-1.00.3/raidlib.c	Wed Jan 15 08:58:25 2003
+++ raidtools-1.00.3-rgg/raidlib.c	Thu Nov 13 16:51:37 2003
@@ -460,11 +460,19 @@
       case raidstart:
       {
 	struct stat s;
+	int i=0;
+	for ( i=0; i< MD_SB_DISKS; ++i) {
+		
+		if (!cfg->device_name[i][0]) {
+			rc++;
+			break;
+		}
+		stat (cfg->device_name[i], &s);
 
-	stat (cfg->device_name[0], &s);
-
-	fd = open_or_die(cfg->md_name);
-	if (do_mdstart (fd, cfg->md_name, s.st_rdev)) rc++;
+		fd = open_or_die(cfg->md_name);
+		if ( ! do_mdstart (fd, cfg->md_name, s.st_rdev))
+			break;
+	}
 	break;
       }