Impossible to stop raid device
/dev/md1 is the RAID array itself. You need to stop a particular participant in that array. Try:
mdadm --fail /dev/md0 /dev/sda1
mdadm --remove /dev/md0 /dev/sda1
This is a good resource: http://www.excaliburtech.net/archives/19
If you need to move all the participating devices, then you need to do this one by one, waiting for the array to rebuild after each device swap.
I delete partition table:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/md0 bs=512 count=1024
then reboot then it works.
In my case i have to do some more tricks for XEN Server
Step # 1 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/md0 bs=512 count=1024
Step # 2 -- Reboot the server
Step # 3
[root@localhost ~]# mdadm --stop /dev/md0 --force
and then
[root@localhost ~]# mdadm --remove /dev/md0 --force