Progress indicator for Rebuild?

The volume must be mounted read/write to rebuild.

Perhaps the volume is not mounted?

If you cannot get the volume to mount normally, try Disk Warrior.

The volume was mounted, but only in read-only.

I have tried unmounting and re-mounting, but now the volume is saying that it's "waiting for mount" in the volume tile in SoftRaid. See screenshot.

What next? Reboot the machine?

A little more info: I tried using diskwarrior to mount the volume, but it won't mount. Gives error code 4902.

As an aside, while it is attempting to mount, RaidSoft appears to be rebuilding, because the 'offset' increments during the mount attempt.

After the mount fails, the offset stops incrementing again.

Thanks for any help you can give!

There is some kind of problem with the volume.

restart and run Disk Warrior again. Startup from a "clean" system if necessary.

Until the volume can cleanly mount, the rebuild will not progress.

Still won't mount, except in read-only mode.

When you say 'clean' startup, what do you mean, exactly?

Any other ideas?

If the volume mounts as "read only" by OS X, it is very surprising that Disk Warrior cannot rebuild the directory.

Outside of doing a backup/erase/restore, contact Alsoft support, they may understand what is going on.

Oh, I didn't realize that you thought I should rebuild the directory with DiskWarrior...

Here is what I tried with DiskWarrior: After unmounting the read-only volume, I tried mounting it from within DiskWarrior (also tried to mount from SoftRaid). It wouldn't mount. I got error 4902 from DiskWarrior.

I am currently re-backing up all my files from the volume, in case I need to completely rebuild it. As soon as that is complete, I will attempt a rebuild of the directory in diskWarrior. If that works, and I can mount read-write, I will expect the SoftRAID rebuild to start again.

If any of these steps are wrong, please let me know.

that is correctly done!

Good luck!

Sometimes it takes a couple tries with Disk Warrior, or a different startup volume but when a volume can mount (even read only), it is rare if Disk Warrior cannot repair it.

Once the volume is OK, the rebuild will proceed.

I think I'm in a chicken-and-egg situation here. I can't fix the directory on the volume with DiskWarrior, unless I start 'clean' which I take to mean boot from the DW recovery partition on the DW thumb drive.

The problem with doing that, is that the thumb drive doesn't have the SoftRAID drivers installed, so DW doesn't see the volume, etc.

If I'm missing something, please let me know.

Otherwise, I need to remove the old volume and recreate it from scratch. Sigh...

There is no need to startup from the Disk Warrior image. (BTW: the DW boot volume does include the SoftRAID driver, but depending on the age of the version of OSX, it may not be able to mount a SoftRAID volume.)

In any case, try a new OS X install onto any external disk or Thumbdrive.

I don't have a 'clean' OS lying around on a separate disk... If the DW recovery volume should be able to do it, I will try that again. I'll also check the version of the OS that is installed on that volume.

You should always keep a fresh install of OS X around. Any external disk, or large Thumbdrive can do this. OS X can suddenly decide not to startup, then your options for fixing your problem, or getting quick access to your data is limited. It is a good practice.

I think I'm in a chicken-and-egg situation here. I can't fix the directory on the volume with DiskWarrior, unless I start 'clean' which I take to mean boot from the DW recovery partition on the DW thumb drive.

The problem with doing that, is that the thumb drive doesn't have the SoftRAID drivers installed, so DW doesn't see the volume, etc.

If I'm missing something, please let me know.

Otherwise, I need to remove the old volume and recreate it from scratch. Sigh...

I do not know how old the system is with a Disk Warrior startup image, but it should be able to see/mount SoftRAID volumes.

The OS is pretty old FYI. The 'About this Mac' menu item is greyed out, so I don't know exactly how old, but the button styles seem like it might be Lion or thereabouts.

Regardless, I tried several times, and wasn't able to get DW to see the Volume, or even the individual disks.

So, I bit the bullet and re-initialized the entire 12TB volume. I'm restoring data back to it now, and it seems to be working fine.