SoftRAID 6.0.1 beta feedback

That's a bug, or perhaps a problem with the Volume header. If you have access to Disk Warrior, can you run it and rebuild the directory? You can try Disk Utility, "First Aid", its not very effective, but might fix this issue

@softraid-support Awesome!  I'm looking forward to this feature.

For whatever reason, right now it isn't listing drives in an Akitio Thunder3 Quad X as being in a group.

The enclosure is in JBOD mode.

@brianbotts

I will add that to the text matrix, thanks

@softraid-support I have Disk Warrior, I’ll give that a try. If it doesn’t help what are my options?

You bring up a couple issues. The SoftRAID 6 driver is solid enough. The application needs polishing, especially to support APFS correctly and add a few features, which we are working on.

Disk Utility has had problems with SoftRAID disks for a long time and it has never been addressed by Apple and apparently never will. So before you try to manage a SoftRAID disk with Disk Utility, zero the disk first, so it has a wiped partition map (100 sectors is enough)

You can post a Support file, more useful than screen captures.

Save the support file. You can post it to the forum.

Nope, Disk Warrior can't help as the Volume is APFS - I might just backup/recreate/restore.

So, how DO you rename a volume? Should it just work if I rename it in the Finder? I can’t see an option in the app to do it.

@ruzek

Sorry that was the SoftRAID log you tried to upload, not a Technical Support file. I need the tech support file, which has much more information for me.

The APFS is because we do not yet support APFS in the user interface, so behavior is not consistent.

@dgiffin

Yes in the Finder. There is no need to support this in the application.

@softraid-support Then I’m afraid it didn’t work, as I said, the app continued to report the old name in the volume tile.

@dgiffin

Post a SoftRAID tech support file. While a volume has its permanent initialized name, the published name (new) should show in the UI. Maybe this is a issue we can fix.

@ruzek

I see the errors about the volume not being open for IO. This is an APFS volume, but should work fine.

Are you just finder copying data to it? Or is it being used as a "home folder"? Circumstances will help me understand this. it looks OK otherwise.

@softraid-support

Starting point: RAID1 volume created with the name TEST-1, shows as TEST-1 in SoftRAID app and in the Finder (and Disk Utility and df).

Rename the volume in the Finder from TEST-1 to TEST.

Relaunch SoftRAID app, volume tile shows it as TEST-1 still while Disk Utility and df show it as TEST.

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upport file attached.