Actually, I don't have the array itself divided into two volumes, I have the three drives divided into two raid 5 arrays. Darkness doesn't get used as much as it used to be my XP partition. However, I found that I used my Vista and, later, Win 7 more often so I removed XP and left it as a partition for backups. But I can understand how it would have difficulty with the two raid 5 arrays sharing the three drives. The reason I thought it was the metadata was because of some similar issues with Fedora. I've decided to try mdadm to see if it reads them correctly or not. Once dmraid can handle my dual raid arrays, I'll switch back.
Actually, I don't have the array itself divided into two volumes, I have the three drives divided into two raid 5 arrays. Darkness doesn't get used as much as it used to be my XP partition. However, I found that I used my Vista and, later, Win 7 more often so I removed XP and left it as a partition for backups. But I can understand how it would have difficulty with the two raid 5 arrays sharing the three drives. The reason I thought it was the metadata was because of some similar issues with Fedora. I've decided to try mdadm to see if it reads them correctly or not. Once dmraid can handle my dual raid arrays, I'll switch back.