I created a RAID with:

sudo mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md1 --level=mirror --raid-devices=2 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1
sudo mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md2 --level=mirror --raid-devices=2 /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdc2

sudo mdadm --detail --scan returns:

ARRAY /dev/md1 metadata=1.2 name=ion:1 UUID=aa1f85b0:a2391657:cfd38029:772c560e
ARRAY /dev/md2 metadata=1.2 name=ion:2 UUID=528e5385:e61eaa4c:1db2dba7:44b556fb

Which I appended it to /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf, see below:

# mdadm.conf
#
# Please refer to mdadm.conf(5) for information about this file.
#

# by default (built-in), scan all partitions (/proc/partitions) and all
# containers for MD superblocks. alternatively, specify devices to scan, using
# wildcards if desired.
#DEVICE partitions containers

# auto-create devices with Debian standard permissions
CREATE owner=root group=disk mode=0660 auto=yes

# automatically tag new arrays as belonging to the local system
HOMEHOST <system>

# instruct the monitoring daemon where to send mail alerts
MAILADDR root

# definitions of existing MD arrays

# This file was auto-generated on Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:06:12 -0500
# by mkconf $Id$
ARRAY /dev/md1 metadata=1.2 name=ion:1 UUID=aa1f85b0:a2391657:cfd38029:772c560e
ARRAY /dev/md2 metadata=1.2 name=ion:2 UUID=528e5385:e61eaa4c:1db2dba7:44b556fb

cat /proc/mdstat returns:

Personalities : [raid1] [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] 
md2 : active raid1 sdb2[0] sdc2[1]
      208629632 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]

md1 : active raid1 sdb1[0] sdc1[1]
      767868736 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]

unused devices: <none>

ls -la /dev | grep md returns:

brw-rw----   1 root disk      9,   1 Oct 30 11:06 md1
brw-rw----   1 root disk      9,   2 Oct 30 11:06 md2

So I think all is good and I reboot.

After the reboot, /dev/md1 is now /dev/md126 and /dev/md2 is now /dev/md127?????

sudo mdadm --detail --scan returns:

ARRAY /dev/md/ion:1 metadata=1.2 name=ion:1 UUID=aa1f85b0:a2391657:cfd38029:772c560e
ARRAY /dev/md/ion:2 metadata=1.2 name=ion:2 UUID=528e5385:e61eaa4c:1db2dba7:44b556fb

cat /proc/mdstat returns:

Personalities : [raid1] [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] 
md126 : active raid1 sdc2[1] sdb2[0]
      208629632 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]

md127 : active (auto-read-only) raid1 sdb1[0] sdc1[1]
      767868736 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]

unused devices: <none>

ls -la /dev | grep md returns:

drwxr-xr-x   2 root root          80 Oct 30 11:18 md
brw-rw----   1 root disk      9, 126 Oct 30 11:18 md126
brw-rw----   1 root disk      9, 127 Oct 30 11:18 md127

All is not lost, I:

sudo mdadm --stop /dev/md126
sudo mdadm --stop /dev/md127
sudo mdadm --assemble --verbose /dev/md1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1
sudo mdadm --assemble --verbose /dev/md2 /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdc2

and verify everything:

sudo mdadm --detail --scan returns:

ARRAY /dev/md1 metadata=1.2 name=ion:1 UUID=aa1f85b0:a2391657:cfd38029:772c560e
ARRAY /dev/md2 metadata=1.2 name=ion:2 UUID=528e5385:e61eaa4c:1db2dba7:44b556fb

cat /proc/mdstat returns:

Personalities : [raid1] [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] 
md2 : active raid1 sdb2[0] sdc2[1]
      208629632 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]

md1 : active raid1 sdb1[0] sdc1[1]
      767868736 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]

unused devices: <none>

ls -la /dev | grep md returns:

brw-rw----   1 root disk      9,   1 Oct 30 11:26 md1
brw-rw----   1 root disk      9,   2 Oct 30 11:26 md2

So once again, I think all is good and I reboot.

Again, after the reboot, /dev/md1 is /dev/md126 and /dev/md2 is /dev/md127?????

sudo mdadm --detail --scan returns:

ARRAY /dev/md/ion:1 metadata=1.2 name=ion:1 UUID=aa1f85b0:a2391657:cfd38029:772c560e
ARRAY /dev/md/ion:2 metadata=1.2 name=ion:2 UUID=528e5385:e61eaa4c:1db2dba7:44b556fb

cat /proc/mdstat returns:

Personalities : [raid1] [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] 
md126 : active raid1 sdc2[1] sdb2[0]
      208629632 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]

md127 : active (auto-read-only) raid1 sdb1[0] sdc1[1]
      767868736 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]

unused devices: <none>

ls -la /dev | grep md returns:

drwxr-xr-x   2 root root          80 Oct 30 11:42 md
brw-rw----   1 root disk      9, 126 Oct 30 11:42 md126
brw-rw----   1 root disk      9, 127 Oct 30 11:42 md127

What am I missing here?