Running SoftRaid on Apple Silicon (M1) Macs including 2020 Mac Mini with M1

I checked my Samsung 970 eve plus 2tb and their firmware are all 2B@QEXM7 which should work w/ Mac

@yangster888

Your support file looks OK, except the drives were not connected when you saved it, so I could not check the disks. Let me know if you get another kernel panic. Click "report", and copy all the text and save it to a text edit file.

@softraid-support appreciate your help so much.  drive wasn't attached b/c kept crashing.  I erased the drive (containing ~ 3tb of mostly fcpx / videos) and recreated in hfs+.  this time just starting with a couple of fcpx libraries.  things are working fine now.  will report back if I run into any problems.

thanks again for plugging away during the holidays.  really appreciate it.

@softraid-support here's a report with drive attached (no kernel panic)

@yangster888

All appears OK in the support file. I see the prior volume write errors, but that was not a hardware error. Let me know if you have any additional issues.

@softraid-support its working now thanks, where should I look out for future beta updates?

@rasta4i

Frequently, yes. One is coming shortly to fix the intel issue.

@softraid-support Hey. Beta 48 is out, you guys do not stop working :) Will that run with the public beta of 11.2, too?

Yes it will work with 11.2 thanks.

Will test this next year :) Happy New Year everyone.

@softraid-support. i spent 2-3 hours tongiht deleting all old versions. 

in the security panel -> privacy->  files and folders,   i can see listed the montior and the b48

I have the reduce security enabled with both options checked. and i have allowed apps from OWC.

but i keep getting kernal panics .

I can see you will get a kernel panic every shutdown with that many disks connected. It is a kernel bug in macOS. I am not sure if that is when you are seeing yours or not.

The SoftRAID driver is present, but not loading.

Do you mind trying a clean install?

Disconnect all disk drives

Run Disk Utility

Show all devices (gear icon, upper left)

Select your startup disk

Click the partition tab

Click + and create a new volume.

Name it and save.

Startup in internet recovery mode (hold power on M1 machines)

Install big sur.

Select this new volume.

Startup in internet recovery mode again.

Enable third party developers (reduced security)

https://support.apple.com/en-lk/guide/mac-help/mchl768f7291/mac

Now run SoftRAID and install the driver.

Connect ONLY your MEPQ. I am sure it will mount.

This gives you a starting point.

OK, confirmed for the Public Beta. It will not work for the Developer Beta. But, I discovered you can roll back from the Developer Beta to the Public very easily, by just re-enrolling in the Public beta and installing that.

@softraid-support

clean install Big Sur?   ouch.  i can try that on a external drive but i would want to erase my main boot drive.  

do you think that will work the same?

@lkwan78

This does not impact your main Big Sur System. A feature of APFS volumes is you can add more volumes inside the same container, and they share space!

So give it a try. You can delete it later, or migrate over time and delete the original volume.

APFS is confusing and not well described, but this works.