"failed-disk" ?

I'm trying to "mkraid /dev/md1" with the following:

raiddev /dev/md1
  raid-level 1
  nr-raid-disks 2
  nr-spare-disks 0
  chunk-size 16
  persistent-superblock 1
  device failed-disk
  raid-disk 0
  device /dev/sdb1
  raid-disk 1

I'm trying to convert this machine to raid1 on root.  Don't ask about
the md1, long story.  At any rate when I do the mkraid I get this:

root@rharris-build2:~# mkraid /dev/md1
handling MD device /dev/md1
analyzing super-block
couldn't call stat() on device failed-disk -- No such file or directory
mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues.

root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:~# mkraid -V
mkraid version 0.90.0

Thoughts?

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