Deleted a Volume in Disk Utility, Now SoftRAID XT Doesn't Recognize It - Functionality Issues

RE: Deleted a Volume in Disk Utility, Now SoftRAID XT Doesn't Recognize It

sgoto — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 14:49:13 +0000

@softraid-support YES! That worked!

Thank you for being thorough and explaining what had happened. It's been driving me nuts!

Take care, and hope you have a great day.

RE: Deleted a Volume in Disk Utility, Now SoftRAID XT Doesn't Recognize It

SoftRAID Support — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 14:39:24 +0000

You want to delete/erase this volume correct?

It is showing as unknown format. My guess from looking at this, is this was a Time Machine volume from an older macOS, which was created when Time Machine supported HFS volumes.

It appears that MacOS installed an APFS volume inside the HFS volume, as Time Machine only works with APFS volumes now.

That explains why SoftRAID cannot delete it.

Is there still a second volume on the desktop? It appears to me it is mounted. Try unmounting that, see if SoftRAID can delete it.

if that does not work, let me know, there is a brute force way to delete the volume.

RE: Deleted a Volume in Disk Utility, Now SoftRAID XT Doesn't Recognize It

sgoto — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 01:24:32 +0000

@softraid-support Sorry for the delayed response. I've removed the disk from Time Machine and I've been using another disk, but I still wasn't able to remove it.

Here's my support file VVV

1632

Thank you!

RE: Deleted a Volume in Disk Utility, Now SoftRAID XT Doesn't Recognize It

SoftRAID Support — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 21:15:23 +0000

Attach a SoftRAID tech support file. (Utilities menu). I can take a look.

Did you remove the volume from Time Machine? that causes lots of issues if you try to repurpose volumes.

Deleted a Volume in Disk Utility, Now SoftRAID XT Doesn't Recognize It

sgoto — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 20:25:03 +0000

Hey folks,

I have a drive that I erased in Disk Utility that is no longer recognized as the same drive in SoftRAID XT. The volume is now mounted in Finder, but it shows up as 'Unmounted' in SoftRAID XT.

Is there anything I can do to restore the link between the volume recognized by Finder and the ghost volume that's still in SoftRAID?

Background:
I have been having troubles deleting a Time Machine volume on my TB4 through SoftRAID XT because I kept getting the error message, 'An error occurred deleting the volume "". This disk is currently being used by another application. Please quit all other applications and try again'. Assuming this was caused by Time Machine I decided to erase the volume in Disk Utility.

Hardware & Software
Mac Mini M1
MacOS 12.5.1
SoftRAID XT 6.3
Thunderbay 4 TB2