Mac Critical Issues - SoftRAID Forum

What's the state of SoftRAID for macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 on the 2019 Intel Mac Pro?

Seth Goldin — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 22:31:01 +0000

In the course of troubleshooting some issues on a 2019 Intel Mac Pro, I found this article about issues with 15.0.0 and Thunderbolt SATA enclosures. However, that was published on Sep. 16th, and Apple has since released 15.0.1.

Looking for an update as to whether SoftRAID 8.3 on 15.0.1 on a 2019 Intel Mac Pro still suffers from this issue.

Mac M1 Max Won't Mount RAID

jamesandrewbishop — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 18:20:39 +0000

I have a new M1 Max MacBook Pro with Softraid 6.2.6 (beta), and I am unable to mount my OWC enclosure RAID. It has previously worked on my 2013 Mac Pro running Big Sur. I am currently on Monterey 12.0.1. I had a license for SoftRaid 5, and I want to make sure that SoftRaid will work with my new setup before I buy an upgrade. I've added SoftRaid to the "Full Disk Access", I've reinstalled the drivers, and nothing. I can see the drive in the list on SoftRaid, but I cannot interact with it. I can't mount, change Safeguard status, etc.

Softraid 6 beta to softraid XT

danielrdotcom — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 22:45:46 +0000

So I made a raid 5 with the softraid 6 beta that's working flawlessly on my 16-inch intel MacBook pro, and I've been using it to work with. I have everything backed up to an older RAID so I'm not worried about losing data but I'd like to know... when softraid XT 6 is released will I be able to just swap to that and continue as usual or would I have to rebuild?

Need to repost link to beta

kwiley — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 20:41:55 +0000

I'm on Big Sur and need the beta, but the links in the forums are all dead. I need a repost of the beta please. The sooner the better. Thanks.

iMac Pro Power issues

Eclectic Gorilla — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 12:21:09 +0000

I have an iMac Pro 10 core -- using OWC raids and SoftRAID beta -- Big Sur. Not sure if anyone else has seen this issue, but the iMac has started getting a power issue; It shuts down if the heat, or processors get too hot. I have a BU battery/Surge protector and when it loses power, it beeps. Often when playing video or exporting video I'll get the "beep" of power loss -- it is intermittent. Thinking it was a hardware issue, I brought it back to Apple and they did tests on it and couldn't find any hardware issues. They wiped the drive and reinstalled Big Sur from scratch. I restored from time machine and reinstalled the Beta software. So far so good -- except for a startup beep (lose of power) when I booted up this morning.

Just reporting what's happening, in case anyone else has had this issue.

Drivers are installed every time I start SoftRAID

AleXXi — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 10:36:27 +0000

Hi,

Since I installed SoftRAID 6.0.1 b53, everytime I start SoftRAID I need to put my admin password and Drivers are installed... Is this normal?

MacOS Big Sur 11.2.2

Mac Pro 2019

4* 2To SSD M2 on a OWC Raid Card / Raid5

When I start Soft Raid (everytime) : https://i.gyazo.com/9941ed1c0a64d844a18325d3fc0b47ae.mp4

And since today I have one disk faillure.

BigSur 11.2.3 + SoftRAID 6.0.1b53 + RAID 5 (4 disks) + 1 disk failure = Crash on boot / volumes won't mount

bldraid — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 03:33:59 +0000

Apparently one of my 4 Seagate 3TB Barracuda drives has failed in my OWC Thunderbay enclosure. macOS will not boot at all with drive attached -- it gets to the startup chime and then promptly restarts. If I unplug the Thunderbolt cable and allow the machine to fully boot first, launch the SoftRAID app and then plug in the enclosure, the volumes on the RAID 5 array briefly mount with appropriate error messages (see attachment screenshot -- aside, why the heck aren't PNG file types allowed for attachments?! That's what macOS generates by default for screenshots) but the machine kernel panics and crashes within 30 seconds.

RAID 5 is supposed to be able to survive a single disk failure, right?

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Resource to check latest macOS compatible release

zcutlip — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 18:35:28 +0000

It would be great if there was an easy-to-check website that, at a glance, showed

- The most recent release of macOS that is fully compatible with SoftRAID, and

- Current compatibility state (e.g. red, yellow, green) of the very most recent macOS release

I instead find my self browsing the SoftRAID support pages, and the support forums for any reported troubles before upgrading, which is a bit time consuming

Cheers,

Zach

One Drive of RAID 1+0 is missing; lights never worked. Which drive is missing?

jscooper22 — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 13:48:52 +0000

Hi,

I just found that my RAUD 1+0 is degraded, with one drive missing. The lights on my Thunderbay 4 never worked, so I don't know which drive is bad.

The existing dives are identified as "ID 1, ID 2, ID 3" so I assume the bad one if ID 4. anyone know if this is the left-most or right-most drive when looking at it from the front?

Thanks,

Jeff

Upgrading from High Sierra to Mojave - Dont know what I dont know

DonCon54 — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 17:41:52 +0000

Hey All,

I am about to undergo the upgrade from High Sierra to Mojave. I have all the details/hardware ready to ensure i have METAL support in the GPU, but where I am drawing a bit of a blank in my prep is how to handle my RAID 5 setup with SoftRaid.

I need to first upgrade my BootRom via High Sierra upgrader. This will require me to boot the high sierra installer from a AFPS formatting drive, which currently NONE of my drives are AFPS.

This will require me to pull my raid array (3 different disks) out of my Mac Pro. I've never done this before. So my first question is simply:

Question #1) TO safely dismount them, I just turn my computer off, and pull all three raid drives, and turn my computer on correct?

Next, once I upgrade my BootRom, then my GPU w/Metal Support, I'll be upgrading to Mojave. Once Mojave is updated, to reactivate my SoftRaid array I land at this question:

Question #2) Do I simply shut down again and install the 3 disks and start up SoftRaid Software (currently on 5.8.4)?