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Topics: 10 / Replies: 28
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RE: Aborting certify?

@softraid-support thanks for the instructions. I notice I need to click on the drive entry for the entry to become active, but I do see it now.Perhaps...

3 years ago
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RE: Thunderbay 4, Thunderbolt 2?

OP here: The official Apple TB2 <-> TB3 adapter has been working fine for me (iMac late 2013)

3 years ago
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RE: Intel Mac on Big Sur - OWC Thunderbay: Won't Certify nor Initialize, says Error # 0, or Disk in use by another app.

I encountered something very similar today; it turned out that I had to unmount the volume.

3 years ago
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RE: question replacing hard disk in raid5 with differnt rotation speed

As a data point, I have successfully used RAID0 and RAID5 between drives of fairly different speeds.

3 years ago
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RE: Can you mix drive sizes?

Right, SoftRAID cannot handle this, and no stripped RAID can possibly handle this as every (sufficiently large) write must be striped to different par...

3 years ago
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RE: question replacing hard disk in raid5 with differnt rotation speed

To clarify:The Seagate Archive drives apparently explicitly indicated that they are SMR; see As well, all current Barracuda drives are SMR except the ...

3 years ago
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RE: Feature Request - Option to NOT auto-mount volumes that are unmounted after an operation

From a user perspective, it should be straight-forward: associate each volume with a single bit internal flag that indicates whether the last unmount ...

3 years ago
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RE: addisk usage?

I was able to use the GUI to add disks to RAID1, but I was looking for examples of the command line use -- a tested example, please, as when I try it ...

3 years ago
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RE: Stopping rebuild?

So far, the app has always noticed my creating volumes at the command line... just not always noticed deleting volumes.I did unmount the volume before...

3 years ago
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RE: Stopping rebuild?

However, I once I had cancelled the rebuild, I was unable to delete the volume, not in the GUI and not in the command line. The command line would go ...

3 years ago
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RE: Stopping rebuild?

Thanks, that worked.

3 years ago
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RE: addisk usage?

Is there an example?For example if I had a non-RAID volume that I wanted to convert to RAID1, how would I addisk (adddisk?)

3 years ago
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RE: command line changes cannot be changed in GUI?

No, when I create using the command line, safeguard is disabled by default. roberson@Sandras-iMac ~ % softraidtool volume J3 create 200gb nonraid ...

3 years ago
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