Followup to:  [ref]
By author:    Jim Klimov [off-list ref]
In newsgroup: linux.dev.raid

  Since the new parted worked ok (older one didn't), we were happy
  until we tried a reboot. During the device initialization and after
  it the system only recognises the 6 or 7 partitions which start
  before the 2000Gb limit:

For a DOS partition table, there is no such thing as a partition
starting beyond 2 TB.  You need to use a GPT or other more
sophisticated partition table.

	-hpa