Problem initializing disks in SoftRaid 6.0.1 - Big Sur Issues

RE: Problem initializing disks in SoftRaid 6.0.1

Tchat — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 10:07:03 +0000

Ok, I solved it but not in a completely neat way, your last protocole proposition still didn't work. I did it 5 times, same error messages.

I created a brand new session and, from there, with SoftRAID 6.0.5, could initialize my disk and create my RAID5 volume without problem, finally.

Back to my working session, the RAID5 volume mounted properly.

So there must be something in my maine session running in the background that bugged SoftRAID...

SoftRAID Support — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 19:44:35 +0000

@tchat

Maybe they have a funny format. Lets do this:
Uninstall SoftRAID driver and restart

Run Disk Utility and erase each disk, selecting HFS as the file system (It defaults to APFS now)

Restart, run SoftRAID, and see if you can initialize the disks. Should be able to now)

Tchat — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 18:09:38 +0000

@softraid-support

Ok, I've tried it and same result

SoftRAID Support — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 17:07:02 +0000

Can you try with the current 6.1 beta?

Let me know.

http://www.softraid.com/sr_beta

Tchat — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 16:37:59 +0000

Here you go:

872

SoftRAID Support — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 15:32:09 +0000

@tchat

Attach a SoftRAID tech support file.

Tchat — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 15:29:48 +0000

@softraid-support

no, it doesn't. (I unmounted them with the Finder)

SoftRAID Support — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 15:26:52 +0000

@tchat

If you unmount their volumes first, does it work?

Tchat — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 13:33:16 +0000

Hi, I have the same error message here.

SoftRAID is my only running program and yet it can't initialize any of my 4 Seagate Barracuda 4To in my OWC Thunderbay 4, all formatted in HFS+...

I'm on Big Sur 11.3.1, using SoftRAID 6.0.5

SoftRAID Support — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 14:49:36 +0000

Try manually unmounting the volume(s) on the disk from the desktop.

I suspect the disk is in APFS format, which the SoftRAID application does not have the ability to unmount yet.

That ability is coming soon.