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Managing Disks - Certify, Verify, Initialize
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Well ... this is the story:
I am currently certifying 4 x 4TB discs in an old hackintosh. It is quite stable, but sometimes the video card is disconnected when the screen goes to sleep and it is necessary to restart the computer to have an image again. And that's what happened.
Then, instead of restarting and that there is the possibility of losing the 60 hours of process that have run so far, I was thinking of letting the process end and then restarting the computer. My doubts are:
1. How can I identify when it ends? Now the lights on the disks are indicating writing, so I understand that the process continues. When they stop blinking, can I understand that the certificate process stopped?
2. Once you restart your computer, what happens when you reopen SoftRaid Lite if you find disks that have been certified? Does the disk icon change? Where does it put "without errors", another text appears? Is there any log?
Thank you!
Posted : 01/09/2019 11:54 pm
Look in the SoftRAID log, it should show "certify complete" and the time it finished and any errors. That is the sure way to tell.
Posted : 02/09/2019 12:32 am
@softraid-support — is there a way to determine if a disk has already been certified? I have some unused, spare disks that I believe I certified when I first got them, but want to confirm (and not unnecessarily spend time doing it again).
Posted : 01/10/2024 3:44 pm
Sorry, no there is no way, except if the events are still in the SoftRAID log. Certify leaves the disks zeroed out, no partition map, no data on them. If they are "new" you may be able to tell by power on hours, a new disk has 0, a certified new disk will have quite a few hours of use.
Posted : 01/10/2024 5:12 pm
