Ejecting an encrypted Time Machine drive always prompts "Eject All"

Whenever I eject my encrypted Time Machine drive, Finder reports that the drive has more than one partition and asks if I want to eject just the Time Machine partition or all. So I have to hit "Eject All" in this dialog every time I want to disconnect my MacBook from my Time Machine drive.
Thing is, there is only one partition. I've even gone so far as reformatting the drive to one partition and restarting my Time Machine backups fresh twice, but I still get the Eject All prompt every time.
Anybody else have this issue and/or know of a solution?

I wouldn't use RAID for TM, but...
http://pondini.org/TM/2.html
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4062015?start=0&tstart=0

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    I use the external drive for my Time Machine Backup, my mac had to be brought in to have the display replaced so i did a backup before i brought it to the service center.
    After getting the mac back i noticed my time machine drive was not showing on the desktop so i tried doing a time machine backup but i got an error that there was not TM drive.
    I ran Disk utility and it shows the drive with the Time machine partitioned grayed out and at the bottom "Mount Point : Not mounted", i tried mounting it from DU but nothing, i did a verify disk and right away i got a message that the disk needs to be repaired. I ran the repair but DU would get stuck trying to unmount the disk.
    I tried restarting my computer, and i changed to other firewire cables i had using the firewire port and using the thunderbolt to firewire adaptor but no luck, also i tried USB.
    Then i tried it on my windows partition with USB and it showed on windows, i was able to recover my data but i couldn't delete any from the drive, when i tried deleting anything i got a message that said "the files are too big" or something like that, I also tried formating the drive on windows but no luck with that.
    I have no idea what's going on, the drive won't mount and it can't be ejected even though it's recognized (the time machine partition is grayed out)
    Any suggestions? i really don't want to throw it away and if  do i would at least like to wipe it out.
    Thank you in advance for any suggestions

    Other than the Disk Repair from the Disk Utility, I would suggest resetting the PRAM: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11243.
    Tha's kind of a last ditch effort though. Can you put it in another mac computer with the mac os? Does it show up there?

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