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Managing Disks - Certify, Verify, Initialize
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Good morning,
I need to validate a 4TB hard drive because I would like it to be managed and controlled by Softraid Lite. I saw that it estimates a working time of 28 hours. Since I'm unable to keep my Mac on all this time, is there a way to resume the validation process the next day? I tried to do it but the process starts all over again...
Any advice?
Posted : 14/06/2020 6:21 am
Validate should auto resume. A validate is run by the SoftRAID driver and the application does not need to be open, it goes on in the background.
Posted : 14/06/2020 12:00 pm
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No, I'm sorry. Yesterday I turned my mac off and this morning I saw it start up again. Maybe the problem is because I'm using an external USB drive?
Posted : 14/06/2020 3:37 pm
Are you doing a "verify" disk, or "Validate" volume?
Verify will not continue.
Posted : 15/06/2020 9:48 am
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I'm worjing with "validate" option...
Posted : 15/06/2020 11:57 am
Run this command in terminal:
sudo kextstat -b com.softraid.driver.SoftRAID
What do you get?
Posted : 15/06/2020 5:52 pm
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Index Refs Address Size Wired Name (Version) UUID
81 0 0xffffff7f80ea1000 0x3c000 0x3c000 com.softraid.driver.SoftRAID (5.7.5) 1581C4A3-D4C3-3A18-9E3C-A3727FD2AA2B
Posted : 15/06/2020 5:56 pm
You need to be running 5.8.3.
What OS version are you running? And what Computer?
Posted : 15/06/2020 9:50 pm
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Okay, I don't know why, but even with the updates, I always had an old version. Now I downloaded the last one available, installed and replaced with the one I had.
But there's a problem (mamma mia hopefully this situation can be solved) now the disks managed by Softraid don't mount...help!
I rebooted, tried to mount the disks, I can't activate them...
Anyway a MacPro 2009 and Mojave 10.14.6
Posted : 16/06/2020 4:52 am
Downloading the latest app does not install the driver. You must launch the app and install/update the driver. Then you are running the latest version
the mount issue can be resolved with this:
https://srforums.wpengine.com/pages/support/5.8_Volumes_Not_Mounting.pdf
Posted : 16/06/2020 7:01 am
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I solve it! Thank you very much!
Posted : 16/06/2020 8:12 am
Downloading the latest app does not install the driver. You must launch the app and install/update the driver. Then you are running the latest version
the mount issue can be resolved with this:
https://srforums.wpengine.com/pages/support/5.8_Volumes_Not_Mounting.pdf
I recently went through the drill to get the 5.8.3 driver install on my MacBook Pro (2018) with Catalina OS. Yesterday as a matter of fact. My drives would not validate.
Now when I reboot, I need to reinitialize the validation process.
Thank you,
Ray
Posted : 29/06/2020 12:45 pm
One more hoop:
https://srforums.wpengine.com/pages/support/faq/faq_imacpro_secureboot.html
The Catalina mount issue should have been resolved with 10.15.5.
Secure Boot is a longer term problem. We are hoping to find a solution with Apple for 10.16.
Posted : 29/06/2020 1:21 pm
That is what I did yesterday to get validation to work. Has not permitted validation sustainment through reboot though. I have rebooted my system three times this morning solving another product remedy.
Thank you,
Ray
Posted : 29/06/2020 1:39 pm
Validate is performed by the SoftRAID driver, so survives a reboot.
(unless the bundled driver is loaded)
Do not re-enable Secure Boot. Its all I can guess about this.
Posted : 29/06/2020 4:18 pm
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