I got it running...

[Harry Zink]

Thanks to everyone's great help and good suggestions, I got my system
running properly with all drives recognized, and RAIDed together.

Yay!

Key point: check for, and use the MAKEDEV.ide file in the scripts directory
in the kernel tree.

Once that was done, everything else just fell in place the way it ought to.

Again, thanks for everyone's help.

Harry