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Can someone advise as to the problem when attempting to convert a non-RAID 4TB internal (SoftRAID volume, with 3.4 TB of existing data) to a RAID 1 Mirror; I receive the message:
"Error Converting Volume
There is not a SoftRAID disk with free space available. You need to have 1 SoftRAID disk with free space available for this conversion."
...but I have an additional empty 4 TB internal drive SoftRAID volume created. So I do not understand why the error? Safeguards are disabled on both drives.
Thanks for any help in advance.
Tom
SoftRAID Lite v 5.5, Driver v 5.5
Mac OS X 10.6.8
Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro2,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 3 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 8
L2 Cache (per processor): 8 MB
Memory: 14 GB
Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MP21.007F.B06
SMC Version (system): 1.7f10
Posted : 25/06/2016 4:50 pm
Is the spare drive freshly initialized? (There is not a volume on it?)
If true, then try resize the volume on the existing volume down by a GB, in case the new drive is slightly smaller than the existing drive.
Posted : 25/06/2016 7:54 pm
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Thanks for the answer. I had created a volume on the spare disk and that was the problem. After deleting the volume the mirror conversion happened seamlessly.
Thanks again.
Tom
Posted : 26/06/2016 8:24 am
