Comment 8 for bug 106177

I know what causes it, but fixing it will take some convincing of higher powers. The kernel is trying to treat the partition table on the first disk as a correct partition table for just that disk, but it fact, that partition table applies to the raid set, not just the first disk. The partition table shows that the disk is larger than it actually is, so the kernel complains when it tries to access partitions that are beyond the end of the disk. There was a patch posted to lkml some time ago to get the kernel to notice that the partitions are beyond the end of the disk, and not bother trying to use them knowing it will fail, but it was never merged for some silly reason.