Caffeinate The World writes:
> 
> --- Caffeinate The World <mochaexpress@yahoo.com> wrote:
> [...]
> > raidctl -a /dev/sd0a raid0 
> 
> 
> I remember seeing some warning about sd0a being truncated by some
> number after the above command.

That is OK.  As long as sd0a is big enough, it can be used.
 
> > raidctl -vF component0 raid0
> 
> I also remember seeing: "...Quiescence..." sometime during this phase.

Right.  So it got the IO to a "known" state, and then started the rebuild.
 
> > ... all hell broke ...
> 
> I think it started crashing during the reconstruction phase.

Sounds like it.

Later...

Greg Oster