Catalina Issues - SoftRAID Forum

Drives mount but nothing shows up in SoftRaid interface 5.8.4

epyonxero — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 18:02:18 +0000

Softraid array was not connecting for a month due to bad TB cable, once reconnected the drive mounts and works but opening SoftRaid nothing shows up in the window, cant see drives. Catalina and SR 5.8.4

Daisy chain 2 OWC Thunder Bay 4s in Mac Mini late 2012 operating Catalina 10.15.7.

tedmohr — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 15:53:31 +0000

Daisy chain 2 OWC Thunder Bay 4s in Mac Mini late 2012 operating Catalina 10.15.7. ThunderBay A connected to Mac Mini alone I can see. Thunder Bay B connected to Mac Mini alone I can see. Daisy chain B to A then connect A to MAC mini I can not see B the last one on the daisy chain ???? Ideas???

SoftRaid is 7.0

After update to Catalina I can no longer share any softraid volumes

PlanitaryGear — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 15:10:55 +0000

I recently, finally, upgraded my house backup server to Catalina as I needed that to run some other things. I also had to upgrade my softraid version to 6.3 and disable secure boot but I believe that is all working now. At least it appears to be working normally locally. In the sharing control panel I can select the raid volume or folders on the raid volume and they appear to share from there. I have selected to share only via SMB as was suggested in the known issues. Other computers on the network running a variety of OS versions can see the computer has shares and you can select the raid share, but as soon as it attempts to mount I get the “The operation can’t be completed because the original “foldername” cannot be found” error and then nothing. I have rebooted all the machines on both sides, done the dance with force quitting the finder, removed everything from the sharing panel, rebooted the server and re-added it. The server will happily share it’s internal volume and those mount just fine too.

The raid volume is formatted as HFS+ and not APFS. The option to “Convert Volume” in the sofraid app is greyed out when it is selected. I’m not sure this even is for that but I would convert the volume if possible in order to get it to share if that is what the problem is.

The only other oddness I’ve noticed is that the raid volume does not display in the lefthand list of “Locations” in Finder windows. To get to it I have to click on the computer name icon and then it is shown as a volume there.

The server is a 2018 Mac Mini running 10.15.7 and softraid v 6.3 and softraid driver v 6.3. Any suggestions greatly appreciated!

Thanks

Loud Disk Access after crash

DesertNomad — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 04:50:29 +0000

I am on macOS 10.15.7 and after an app crashes and I get the crash report window, both my ThunderBay 4 (single 1+0) and ThunderBay 8 (two 1+0s) get loud with lots of disk access for about 10 seconds and are then quiet again.

I am a software developer so this is a common occurrence. Why do they do this?

SoftRaid Keeps asking for password and re-building boot cache?

dmccallie — Sun, 21 Nov 2021 21:06:06 +0000

I successfully migrated to Catalina under 6.2 SoftRaid launches and all drives appear as expected.

But when I re-launch SoftRaid, each time it asks for my system password again, and spends 30 seconds rebuilding the boot cache. Reboots of the system don't fix this.

What can I do to stop this?

I have added Softraid to the Full Disk Access group, and obviously it has permissions to run.

Thanks for your help.

Softraid 6.0.5 causing Catalina (10.15.7) finder to beachball for a few seconds

NasiLemak — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 05:17:28 +0000

I upgraded Softraid 5 to Softraid 6.0.5, and now I find the system beachball for annoying 5-15 seconds.

It seems my OWC TB is 'asleep' and SoftRaid is waiting for it to spin up. It wasn't the case with SoftRaid 5. All the settings is on default.

Any help much appreciated.

After the update, my version went into trial mode!

Spyro70 — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 10:35:29 +0000

Hello,
a few days ago I installed an update for my version of SoftRaid Lite. Everything seemed ok, but since this morning I received a message telling me that the software is in trail mode and that in 3 days time it will be deactivated, advising me to buy a license. I have already paid for SoftRaid Lite. What's going on? What did I do wrong?
Can I return to the previous version?
Thank you

RAID1 Catalina

empf1969 — Fri, 28 May 2021 06:02:54 +0000

Dear all,

I have a Mac-Mini 2012 with two x 2TB SSD

I would like to merge both SSDs into RAID1

I know that under RAID0 it is not possible to install Catalina on the startup disk

However I seem to have read somewhere that Catalina can be installed on a RAID1

If so how would I go doing that since in order to configure the Mac mini to a RAID1 with SoftRaid there must be Catalina already installed. But then when I try using SoftRaid to create the RAID1 SoftRaid tells me that I need to initialise the drives first which means that the SSDs would be formatted. Which to me sounds like an impossible task because if I initialise the SSDs I loose everything installed on those two SSDs. It is not the data that is an issue since I have a backup however it seems to me that although I understand that we cannot install macOS Catalina on the startup disk using RAID0 how can I achieve that if all I want is to set up a RAID1 with Catalina installed on the Mac mini.

I thought of cloning the primary SSD that is the start up disk with all my software, then I would have formatted both SSDs and then installed macOS Catalina and Softraid to create the RAID1 with SoftRaid. But again I am finding myself with the same issue that is that both SSDs need to be initialise first before creating a new volume.

Please if you can help I will be very grateful,

Many thanks and KR

5.8.4 keeps opening "upgrade available" window

DesertNomad — Mon, 24 May 2021 01:10:56 +0000

On 10.15.7 with 5.8.4 despite setting the option to never notify about updates, the window mentioning that 6.0.4 is available is popping up 5 or 6 times each day for me. How can I turn this off?

AppleRAID-1 & SoftRAID 5.8.4

BjarneDM — Sat, 01 May 2021 13:51:00 +0000

I've got a cMP 2010 w/ 2 x 4TB & 2 x 6TB HDs in the trays. Booting is from a Samsung SSD on a PCIe Card

Now, the two 6TB HDs are presently in AppleRAID-1. When I installed SoftRAID 5.8.4, the read/write speed to this AppleRAID fell to about 10 % of what it was beforehand. Removing the SoftRAID driver resolved the issue. Not using AppleRAID-1 isn't an option for me, as I need several of the features in APFS.

My idea was installing the two 4TB HDs in the DVD bays, buying 2 x 6TB HDs more, and formatting the resulting 4 x 6TB HDs in SoftRAID-5; but with this issue rearing it's ugly head, I've decided to go with OpenZFS instead. (& - yes - I've bought a license for SoftRAID)

Conclusion : SoftRAID is incompatible w/ AppleRAID-1.