MacPro2009-Apple Raid Card-2.2TB limit

Hello,
I have a MacPro (early 2009) with an Apple Raid Card. Lion 10.7.4
I just bought a 4 Tb Sata hard drive and there is no way to make it work on the Apple Raid Card. When it mount , it only show a capacity of 2,2 TB and Apple disk Utility is of no utility with it on the Raid Card.
So I managed to hook it in the Optical Drive bay and I have now a 4 TB volume available for Network backup.
Can you confirm the limit on the Apple raid card
Version Matériel:          2,00
  Version du programme interne:          E-1.3.2.0
Thanks,
Marc LE BRET

I have this same issue with a mid 2010 MacPro Server running 10.8.2/OS X Server (10.8) and the Apple RAID Card with 3 - 1TB drives and an added 4TB drive (in Bay 4) that is only being seen with the 2.2TB limit.  I even initialized it and tested it a bit with my MacPro1,1 and a NewerTech toaster on eSata.  Very nice to see a workaround with the optical bay... thank you for that suggestion!  I was going to go to another enclosure or hard drive "toaster" / dock that allows 4TB drives and use eSata or FW800 as a connection... the 2nd optical drive bay sounds great and will give it a try. 
The only thing I can figure from all this and talking to Tier 2 AppleCare is that the RAID card is only 32 Bit addressing O.o  ... which seems crazy but makes the most sense.  They will more than likely respond with "The drive is unsupported, since it isnt an "Apple" HD."

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    I've tried that.
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    When I open RAID Utility it says: RAID set R0-1 has been mounted with indeterminate data loss. ( Is this just due to improper shutdown?)
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    Message was edited by: Darlyne

    I have had the exact same error message. When you open Raid Utility (that is where you can read what "attention" is needed you will see under the "Status" section what happened, and under the "Tasks" you will see the raid card "initializing" your RAID set. The first time I saw this I freaked, thinking that my drives were being reformatted, and my data would be lost. This is not the case. If you look down on the left side, you will (hopefully) see green lights next to your drives. The initialization seems to be a verification of the raid structure -- basically checking to make sure everything is redundant.
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  • What's the difference in Apple RAID card battery error messages?

    I have a Mac Pro with 2 quad core Intel Harpertown CPUs at 3.2GHz, and an Apple RAID card.  RAID Utility shows that the battery failed but in my research, nobody explains the difference between "Battery failed (code 0x#0 = 17)" (which is what I have) and "Battery failed (code 0x#0 = 18)" or ""Battery failed (other than expired)" (the latter two are what everybody talks about) and what the code numbers mean.  Speaking to a local AASP, they recommend that I just wait for a couple of days to see if it's doing the automatic 72-hour reconditioning operation since my Mac Pro is attached to a pretty hefty UPS (2200VA with nothing else attached) and power failures where I live are rare plus the write cache has been disabled so the RAID card is basically doing write-throughs at the moment.  But curiosity about the various, different error codes and messages is getting the better of me.  Thanks in advance.
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  • Apple RAID card II - will it work in single CPU Mac Pro 4,1?

    Will the Apple RAID card work in a quad core 2009 Mac Pro?  I'm refurbing a used Mac Pro I got at a great price and just wondering if I can put in this card (which was "thrown in" with a used 8 core I also bought) with the idea of doing a RAID 10 to experiment with getting top disk read/write performance. I know most do not like the Apple RAID card II but it might be a cost effective way to max out performance on the single CPU, quad core Mac Pro. Ultimately I want to falsh the firmware to 5,1 and upgrade the CPU to a W3690 hex core. I plan to use this box for photography, light video and possibly sound editing. If my plan will result in high benchmarks and provide some fault tolerance I'm comfortable with using the card. I have heard from other users that the new card is much better than the first version and that it actually works pretty well. Any insights appreciated.

    Heck!
    Im about to win an eBay auction for a blue Apple RAID card together with a pair or SAS 300gb cheetah 15.5k discs for 75 bucks *happy*. Would have been healthy fast upgrade for small investment I thought?!
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  • Suggestions for removing Apple RAID Card?

    After a year of dealing with problematic Apple RAID cards, and replacement batteries – we are ready to move on, without the RAID card.
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    We propose to remove the RAID card to eliminate that point of common failure. Has anyone else faced this, done this? Any suggestions, warnings?
    TIA for your kind attention.

    Hi Michael,
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    Beatle

  • Is there a firmware update for the Apple RAID Card [early 2009 Xserve] that will take it beyond the E-1.3.2.0 version and allow it to see 4TB drives?

    Is there a firmware update for the Apple RAID Card [early 2009 Xserve] that will take it beyond the E-1.3.2.0 version and allow it to see 4TB drives?

    I have a few of these RAID cards in a couple servers, and then I have an earlier version of the RAID card in a few different servers.
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  • Installing Apple RAID Card on original Mac Pro 1.1

    After months of waiting, I finally received my ordered Apple RAID Card suggested by Apple Italia per upgrading my Mac Pro station to handle HD editing. OK. Great. the problem is that the inside of my Mac Pro does not resemble the illustrations in the manual and I can't find any instructions for mounting the card (it's the right one, on this site I found it and ordered the right one, the blue card) but I DON'T have the PCI Slider illustrated in the manual. Since you clame that I CAN install this RAID card (otherwise I wouldn't have bought it!) but I don't know if the absence of ANY sliding element in the place of the PCI Slider mentioned means that I have to connect wires, change the inside, go to an Apple Authorized Dealer (where I bought the thing!)? Can anyone help me?

    The instructions can be found here for the first generation Mac Pro:
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  • How can I force the Disk Cache on with Apple Raid Card?

    I have an apple raid card in my mac pro that has now had it's battery fail twice. I don't really want to keep putting money into this and would rather just force the disk cache on and hope my UPS works, I don't use this box for real work anymore anyway and it's all backed up.
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    OK, Command Line fun, use at your own risk:
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  • Installing, a Apple Raid Card

    Hi All
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    Hi ada mann,
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    Mac Pro RAID Card: Identification and compatibility
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3514
    Mac Pro RAID Card and Xserve RAID Card: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1346
    Regards,
    - Brenden

  • CAN the Mac Pro deep-sleep with the Apple Raid Card?

    So, reading through previous posts, there seems to be a problem (or 'feature' to charge the battery?) that prevents the Mac Pro from sleeping when the Apple Raid Card is installed.
    Can users owning this setup corraborate? Is this indeed the intended way to work?
    Thx,
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