How to make Intel fake RAID 0 volume appear on boot with Ubuntu 14.04 in a multi-boot environment?

I have a computer with a Gigabyte GA-Z97N-Gaming 5 mainboard, a 256 GB drive for booting and two 3 TB drives meant to use in a RAID 0 setup with both ext4 and NTFS partitions. We are planning running Xubuntu 14.04 and Windows 8.1 on it. Using dmraid seemed to limit the RAID volume size to 1.5 TB, so it was not feasible with 6 TBs of disk surface. Referring to an Intel whitepaper, I could configure a 6 TB-volume and create 4.5 TB ext4 partition using gdisk and mkfs.ext4, and an NTFS partition using Windows to the rest of the capacity. So, the setup seems to work on both Linux and Windows as expected. However after rebooting Xubuntu, the /dev/md126[|p1|p2] devices will no more appear. Here are the exact commands which were run in the successful setup sudo mdadm -C /dev/md/imsm /dev/sd[b-c] -n 2 -e imsm sudo mdadm -C /dev/md/vol0 /dev/md/imsm -n 2 -l 0 sudo mdadm -E -s --config=mdadm.conf > /etc/mdadm.conf sudo gdisk /dev/md126 # created partitions sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/md126p1 sudo mkdir /home/levo/megaosio sudo nano /etc/fstab # added UUID->/home/levo/megaosio entry with defaults sudo chown levo:levo /home/levo/megaosio/ sudo mount -a First time the volume disappeared, I tried rebuilding the volume from scratch using following commands:` sudo mdadm -C /dev/md/imsm /dev/sd[b-c] -n 2 -e imsm sudo mdadm -C /dev/md/vol0 /dev/md/imsm -n 2 -l 0 To my surprise, that made the ext4 and NTFS volumes appear again and I could access them. I really do not believe that this is the correct way to make a volume appear. Have I missed a step when configuring the volume, or does booting to Windows or rebooting per se just ruin the metadata? What would be the correct way to discover the volumes on startup? /etc/mdadm.conf contains ARRAY metadata=imsm UUID=ff5cb77f:cf2f773b:3dc18705:11398139 ARRAY /dev/md/vol0 container=ff5cb77f:cf2f773b:3dc18705:11398139 member=0 UUID=cb1e53b2:e182f7c2:5f3d8a99:6663ffd6 sudo mdadm --detail --scan only returns a newline.