GuitarFlex
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RE: New Mac Studio M2. SoftRaid 8.3. ThunderBay Flex8. All Volumes Disappeared Waking Up - Not A Good Start!

What's the general time-frame on things under investigation? I'm not comfortable creating any new disk volumes until that whole 18.4 - thing gets sort...

1 year ago
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RE: New Mac Studio M2. SoftRaid 8.3. ThunderBay Flex8. All Volumes Disappeared Waking Up - Not A Good Start!

Are you saying to try this if the disk doesn't appear upon startup, or only if the disk somehow goes offline after startup? Pulling a disk out and pus...

1 year ago
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RE: New Mac Studio M2. SoftRaid 8.3. ThunderBay Flex8. All Volumes Disappeared Waking Up - Not A Good Start!

Another day. Just turned on Flex 8, then turned on Studio. Disks 4 & 7 did not show. Since Disks 3-4 are in a mirror RAID 1, thankfully it was the...

1 year ago
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RE: New Mac Studio M2. SoftRaid 8.3. ThunderBay Flex8. All Volumes Disappeared Waking Up - Not A Good Start!

Can't view this link. Tried first on Safari, then again on Google Chrome in case it was the browser. "You are not permitted to view this attachment" c...

1 year ago
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RE: New Mac Studio M2. SoftRaid 8.3. ThunderBay Flex8. All Volumes Disappeared Waking Up - Not A Good Start!

Both answers in one reply: Any 3.5" SATA disk. Across enclosures it has occurred with every configuration I have. Seagate 4TB EXOS disks (7E8), 1...

1 year ago
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RE: New Mac Studio M2. SoftRaid 8.3. ThunderBay Flex8. All Volumes Disappeared Waking Up - Not A Good Start!

Not to be impatient, just checking in. Did a bug report ever get over to Apple about this? And/or was anyone able to look at it to find anything else ...

1 year ago
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RE: New Mac Studio M2. SoftRaid 8.3. ThunderBay Flex8. All Volumes Disappeared Waking Up - Not A Good Start!

This post updates and adds onto the previous one with the first We Transfer link. These were the conditions: In the first link posted at the end of ...

1 year ago
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RE: New Mac Studio M2. SoftRaid 8.3. ThunderBay Flex8. All Volumes Disappeared Waking Up - Not A Good Start!

Thanks. I remembered this (what you said earlier) about loading/mounting/ejection from very early on so I wasn't asking about rolling back to SR7 to t...

1 year ago
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RE: New Mac Studio M2. SoftRaid 8.3. ThunderBay Flex8. All Volumes Disappeared Waking Up - Not A Good Start!

This reply came in the nick of time. Now my disks simply are not showing at all on the Studio but they are on the Intel MBP running SoftRAID 7.5. Prio...

1 year ago
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RE: New Mac Studio M2. SoftRaid 8.3. ThunderBay Flex8. All Volumes Disappeared Waking Up - Not A Good Start!

I have nothing but pure gratitude for your help and everyone else's at OWC through this. After installing all 8 disks into the new enclosure and start...

1 year ago
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RE: Warranty Enclosure Arrived. Before Migrating, One (Original) Disk Question. I/O Errors. Should I Verify Or Re-Certify This Disk?

@softraid-support Thank you again! This helps! I'll definitely remember this moving forward with everything. I appreciate it.

1 year ago
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RE: Warranty Enclosure Arrived. Before Migrating, One (Original) Disk Question. I/O Errors. Should I Verify Or Re-Certify This Disk?

Thanks so much. Very helpful and I'm glad you've taught me this now! When you say "warm them up a bit first," my question is simple: how do you warm t...

1 year ago
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RE: Warranty Enclosure Arrived. Before Migrating, One (Original) Disk Question. I/O Errors. Should I Verify Or Re-Certify This Disk?

Yes, that is 100% correct. Disk just passed the default 3-rounds certification with 15 minutes Random Access Testing in the new enclosure. I'm elated....

1 year ago
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RE: Warranty Enclosure Arrived. Before Migrating, One (Original) Disk Question. I/O Errors. Should I Verify Or Re-Certify This Disk?

Short update since the post above was way too long and it won't let me edit anything to shorten now. I re-initialized the disk to confirm that the Hou...

1 year ago
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