[Sticky] Big Sur on M1 machines and SoftRAID issues

I spoke too soon... a reboot and WHAT IS THIS both volumes are mounting! My Raid 5 112tb and my 8tb Accelsior, both mounting and running on my M1 Mini.

Now my question is.. I have two serials but with beta software, I can't enter either, it just says null null null etc. I have 39 days remaining.. ha. Any chance of a solution to that in the next 38 days? :)

Awesome work guys, THANK YOU!

@jd1

Beta versions do not need serial numbers. Wait until we release.

There is a new beta coming probably next week.

I'm eager to install the macOS 11.3 beta 3 on my M1 mini (11.1 has some troublesome bugs) but I'm reluctant to do so until we get an unambiguous all-clear from SoftRAID. The process of reverting to 11.1 after the 11.2 upgrade was painful and time-consuming.

I've seen only success stories posted here which is very encouraging.

@rrg

We are researching why some systems fail. One theory is the main issue is for users with multiple systems. We are writing some documentation currently.

@softraid-support You talking about multiple systems means that the startup disk is partitioned, and has multiple bootable systems like 11.1 and 11.2 and 11.3 on them, and you can switch on boot, that correct?

@sunstarfire

This seems to be the case, yes. But I do not have confirmed word yet.

So (still subject to confirmation) it appears that if you DON’T have multiple bootable systems on your startup disk, it should be safe to install 11.3 beta 3?

@rrg

Yes

@rrg Allow me to add to the success stories. The world has returned to normalcy. Well. My very small corner anyway.

@robodean

Thanks, yes it is working for most. Only "advanced" users are still going to have some issues. At least the worst issues are resolved here.

OS - Big Sur 11.3 Beta (20E5196f)

SOFTRAID - v 6.0.1 b53

SOFTRAID DRIVER - v 6.0.1 b53

@matty1551

Your driver should load. Did you do these two things?

https://support.apple.com/en-lk/guide/mac-help/mchl768f7291/mac
Select reduced security and enable this:
Select the “Allow user management of kernel extensions from identified developers” checkbox to allow installation of software that uses legacy kernel extensions.

Did you "Allow" OWC as an identified developer?

@softraid-support it turns out reduced security was set to full. I'm unable to change it though. It keeps telling me my password incorrect. Im positive it's not though.

@matty1551

There is a bug here, we have reported to Apple, where you cannot enter your serial. I finally solved it on one machine by creating a new volume (inside the main APFS container, not a partition), then installing Big Sur into that. Booted from that volume, then into recovery mode, then I could reset security on the desired volume.

53 works fine. You guys forgot to put the Softraid logo onto the folder. Still no Monitor, though. But installation was flawless, upgrading from b52 worked without a hitch.