Can't create partitions on raid, --auto=mdp not possible

[Dexter Filmore <Dexter.Filmore@gmx.de>]

While I'm at migrating data to a new array I thought I get rid of LVM and 
partition the array directly - spares me one extra layer that I don't need.

Now, I can cfdisk md1 just fine and sfdisk -d shows me the partitions 
md1p[1-4], but as soon as I want to mkfs, I get:

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# LC_ALL=en_EN mkfs.ext3 -O dir_index -E stride=16 -m 0 /dev/md1p1
mke2fs 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
Could not stat /dev/md1p1 --- No such file or directory

The device apparently does not exist; did you specify it correctly?
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And lo and behold: in /dev no trace of md1p1 or md1/p1 or whatever. Only md1.


When assembling I get:

# mdadm -A -s
mdadm: that --auto option not compatable with device named /dev/md1

Here's my mdadm.conf:
DEVICE partitions
ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid5 num-devices=5 auto=mdp 
 UUID=f2352335:f8654106:19a59613:120d8f39

This is debian 4.0r3 with kernel 2.6.22 from etch-backports and mdadm 2.5.6.

What do I have here? Version conflict? 

Dex


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