Extra addition RDM disk problem

I have a Windows Server 2008 (64-bit), created with 2.5 and ESX3.5 vCenter. This server have three disks, a virtual two Raw device Mappings. The RDM disks are 2, 94TB and 7, 16 to.

After the upgrade to vSphere 4.0 and ESX4.0, the virtual machine still works with two connected RDM disks.

The problem now is to add an additional drive to RDM. The drive is 3, 15 to. I get an error saying "file server/file.vmdk is larger than the maximum size supported by datastore"datastore"

Now, my question is how is it possible. Is there a pass from ESX3.5 to ESX4.0 that prevents me from creating the new drive?

In fact, it was a bug in 3.5 to create and use of RDM disks larger than 2 TB, it was fixed in 4.0.

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