Raid Utility Message - 72-Hour Battery

Anybody know anything new about Raid Message - I read there have been issues with this:
Controller Reports RAID system 72-Hour Battery Reserve unavailable - etc. etc.
Apparently this happens periodically when computer drains battery and recharges it. But I've been getting this message for 14 days now. I heard it takes a long time, but how long?
Thanks,
Jim

I think I found it. I believe it is reporting past events every time you reboot wanting you to take action.
The problem is with the UI on the RAID Utility. In the events pane you get the message about your battery being discharged posted on some date in the past. But how do you clear these events?
Not obvious to me.
If you horizontally scroll the events pane you will see a Clear button on the far right.
Once you clear the events the status shows "Good" and I suspect it will not complain on the
next reboot.

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Not sure if I'm following you. I have 4 hard drives installed on my Mac Pro. I had a RAID 5 configured and functional for about 5 months. My battery died on the RAID card. I replaced the battery, seated the RAID card back in the slot I removed it from. When I booted to the USB drive to look in the RAID utility, I could see the battery is charged but my volumes are not showing.
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FeistMeister wrote:
Um, that was the point.
I did a rebuild between the crash and the next one, and a verify ...
I missed that.
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Is this how I stop getting a RAID error message on startup?

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I (not mine actually, but have use this Mac Pro while I work on a project) have an Apple RAID card, and on startup get this message..
"The Apple Raid Card installed on your system required your attention"
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Hello,
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Dear all,
I have setup the eMAIL notification mechanism for a long time, but I always got such message, how we can do .... any firmware for Marvell RAID Chiip ?
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Hello, MRU User.
This mail is automatically sent out by Marvell RAID Utility.Please don't reply to this mail.
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Uq
Solved!
Go to Solution.

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