Sorry, I was distracted by other things. So I will be attaching a
proposed update to dmraid and some pre-built package to test. I just
cannot promise that change will be accepted.

About converting to mdadm: That would be an option that might be more
future proof but only if you do not want to use the RAIDed disks in
parallel with Windows. The drivers that come with the motherboard rely
on the BIOS signatures and I am not aware (I never had need, so I never
searched) of any generic RAID driver for Windows that would recognize
the DDF signatures that mdadm creates.

If you only will be using Linux it is a different story. Then moving to
mdadm (you can then use even the normal superblock format, no strict
need for DDF) would have the additional benefit of being able to replace
the motherboard or move the disks to a different computer and have the
RAID still working. But of course its a tedious task: you need some
place to backup all data, also better make sure the backup has no bits
corrupted (maybe rare but happened), erase the RAID signatures (if
possible, from the BIOS), either plug the disks to a different
controller or switch the current one into SATA/AHCI mode, set up the
mdamd RAID and finally copy the backup back (and possibly again check
for consistency). A lot of work...

** Patch added: "Proposed update for dmraid"
   
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1611277/+attachment/4723888/+files/disable-removable-test.debdiff

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