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Good evening all,
I bought SR the other week and have been migrating to new disks, but got an odd problem which I can't find described in the forums.
Whenever I try to use disk utility to format a volume (Tried with USB stick, SSD in different internal slots) the app crashes and causes a reboot of the computer.
Can't for the life of me figure it out, but peeking at the OSX crash report I see "softraid" mentioned. Is this a known issue or am I doing something completely wrong?
Cheers
P
Posted : 27/04/2017 12:47 pm
This is a Disk Utility bug.
Apple introduced this bug in Disk Utility when it re-wrote Disk Utility for Sierra. It causes a crash when it works with a SoftRAID disk. We have reported this, but it is not fixed yet.
Use SoftRAID to "zero disk", 100 sectors when you want to use a disk with Disk Utility. It wipes the partition map from a disk and then it appears like a "new" disk.
You could also "convert" to Apple format if it is a non RAID volume.
Posted : 27/04/2017 2:35 pm
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Thanks for the prompt reply. I'd understand if just Disk Utility crashes, but the hard crash and reboot was a first…
I'm trying to setup an SSD for bootcamp, so have to reformat to FAT32 – not sure if bootcamp assistant does it's own reformat at some point; do you know if that is messed up because of this bug as well?
Cheers
M
This is a Disk Utility bug.
Apple introduced this bug in Disk Utility when it re-wrote Disk Utility for Sierra. It causes a crash when it works with a SoftRAID disk. We have reported this, but it is not fixed yet.
Use SoftRAID to "zero disk", 100 sectors when you want to use a disk with Disk Utility. It wipes the partition map from a disk and then it appears like a "new" disk.
You could also "convert" to Apple format if it is a non RAID volume.
Posted : 27/04/2017 5:21 pm
If you start with a disk that you used "zero disk" on, it will appear to both OS X and Windows as a "new" disk, so you will have no problems with it.
Posted : 27/04/2017 5:47 pm
