I'm about to hand my mac over to the Genius bar again now. They're going to put in another logic board. See if that helps with the shutdown problem.

Okay, crash report from before says naer the end actually '>watchdog 1' is that a 'positive'. First time I unmounted all the SR volumes, it still...

Okay, I just unmounted all the SR volumes before shutting down and the machine came back on after about 8 seconds. Interestingly, the computer and dri...

Sorry, what's a 'watch dog' crash please? I have 4 sets of Thunderbay 4s connected plus one solo drive for Time machine. I haven't tried to test un...

Okay, I've hooked up my OWC thunderbay 4s with RAID 5 volumes up to the repaired computer. Something about the enclosures is not letting the computer ...

Cheers. I got my machine back. Reinstalling everything now. The volume with the Time Machine backups can't be read now. Although all my data is safe o...

Wait, windows SR6 only supports RAID 0/1?

One new stupid question please. If I upgrade from Softraid 5XT to SR 6XT now for 100, can I then upgrade SR 6XT to SR 6 Pro for the additional 100 if ...

It seems that all 3 of the replacement drives that I got from Amazon over the past couple of months are faulty. Sheesh. I've dug out another 'spare' d...

I actually have backups of the data. So should I just wipe the volume and start again?

Well, it says it's rebuilding but there's no progress/ time estimate. The new drive is marked as 'out of sync, rebuilding'

Cheers, I'm going down that route now. It shutdown my computer once but when I replaced the drives, one by one, it didn't happen again. It even let me...

Okay, an update. I started SR but got a trial period has expired message, and the serial number extracted seems to be one for Lite (I didn't know ther...

I'm not getting any errors and have full read/ write access. Pressing rebuild just does nothing. Let me try again, my desk was a mess of cables and en...

And one other please, whilst I'm here with my current computer problem. My mac mini that used to be the 'home' for my OWC Softraid enclosures is being...