Volume size limit on JBOD RAID (apple software built-in) with USB2

I use a MacMini as our home server. It hosts TimeMachine as well as the swelling iTunes stuff.
The server has a concatenated RAID HFS+ from 4x500GB SATA2 drives over USB2. The size was 1.7TB. I'm running out of space for Time Machine on this JBOD RAID. So, I added 2x500GB SATA2 drives on the USB2 bus and appended it to the JBOD RAID.
In Console for diskutil, it says "RAID Failure: Filesystem resize failed." But, the disks were fine (at least they were before I added them) and they show up as operational members of the JBOD RAID.
I know MacOS X 10.4 has a 8EB volume limit I'm NOT hitting ... what's limiting the size of the RAID? Is there a workaround to either:
(1) span Time Machine across volumes; or
(2) increase the JBOD RAID beyond 2TB?
tim
Message was edited by: timerinoz: noted file system was HFS+

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