MountainCat
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RE: Is 64k stripe size the only working option for RAID5 on Apple Silicon with v7 as well?

And if I move to Ventura does that help? Is this absolutely required or only if you are currently having instability?

1 year ago
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RE: One or more of the disks for the volume ___ is no longer usable

Don't know yet. I removed and reinstalled SoftRaid because I was often getting a blank window when launching it. Still have sleep off. But it hasn't h...

1 year ago
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RE: One or more of the disks for the volume ___ is no longer usable

Hi, I've come back from a few weeks away. Do you have any more info? I need stability here. Thanks

1 year ago
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RE: Is 64k stripe size the only working option for RAID5 on Apple Silicon with v7 as well?

I have a Thunderbay with 4 drives in RAID 5 on an M1 MacMini running softraid 7.1 with Mac OS 12.6. I am getting kernel panics that I thought were sle...

1 year ago
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RE: One or more of the disks for the volume ___ is no longer usable

Today, despite sleep being turned off, I came back to the system and was greeted by the kernel panic restart message again. System is now what I consi...

1 year ago
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RE: One or more of the disks for the volume ___ is no longer usable

@softraid-support Not sure what you mean exactly. The panic I've generally been getting has been after clicking through all the drives locked messages...

1 year ago
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RE: One or more of the disks for the volume ___ is no longer usable

@softraid-support I am currently using manual sleep settings via PMSET right now. The values are: AC Power:Sleep On Power Button 1standby 0ttyskeepa...

1 year ago
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RE: One or more of the disks for the volume ___ is no longer usable

Just got a SoftRAID kernel panic. Is this related? Here it is along with softraid support log.

1 year ago
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RE: One or more of the disks for the volume ___ is no longer usable

I need a solution in the meantime. The issue is happening all day now, driving me crazy. Is there any way to decommission the TimeMachine drive tempor...

1 year ago
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RE: One or more of the disks for the volume ___ is no longer usable

So then, should I wait for a solution from you? Any idea of when that will be? Or just delete the TimeMachine volume? I like the space but if it solve...

1 year ago
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RE: One or more of the disks for the volume ___ is no longer usable

It just happened again, but something is strange. Even though the TimeMachine volume had been ejected, the error from SoftRAID said that the TimeMachi...

1 year ago
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RE: One or more of the disks for the volume ___ is no longer usable

That is very interesting, because I made an extra TimeMachine drive with extra space I had on one of the RAID drives after I replaced the drive. I rec...

1 year ago
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RE: One or more of the disks for the volume ___ is no longer usable

Well, that would be amazing news. I am now on 7.0.1 with MacOS 12.6. The locked disk issue is now happening multiple times per day. I either get the s...

1 year ago
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RE: One or more of the disks for the volume ___ is no longer usable

PS - I am getting notification when this happens that the Thunderbay was not ejected properly when I get the Softraid drive locked message. This is al...

1 year ago
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