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solved. To get drives to work with the new Intel Server the drives have to be set to SATA1 since the XServe does not support SATA2 at 300MB/s

These are the links that will help with this solution should we need to add a drive.

Seems simple enough, but try weaseling this info out of Apple! I had to just try it.
Jumper setting links and articles below:

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=Serial_ATA_Jumpers_and_Cabling&vgnextoid=4a02242cb043e010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD

For Western Digital Drives:
see OPT1 setting at the bottom
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/247002-32-hard-drive-jumper-limits

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possibly solved! I am updating this to hopefully save someone this headache in the future. Found this link http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1945908&tstart=0 and so far throttling down the drives has them appearring and my raid array is being built now. All going well almost 3B Raid 5 on an intel xserve isn’t bad 🙂 I can get rid of my Apple Raid Array now.

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After much frustration figured It may be a format issue. I removed the raid controller and reinstalled the original. Opened disk utility from install disk to erase and reedo the drives. Nothing still appears!.. grrr…. 😥

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