James Show
@james-show
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Joined: Jul 2, 2021
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RE: RAID 5 Making iMac Hang on Restart, Also Forces Restart? HELP.

@softraid-support I want to thank you very much for all your help. I was able to replace and rebuild the RAID. It took a long time for the rebuild, bu...

5 years ago
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RE: RAID 5 Making iMac Hang on Restart, Also Forces Restart? HELP.

@softraid-support When I had the crash, I was running 5.8.2. Somewhere in the craziness of trying to get softRaid to run without crashing, I updated t...

5 years ago
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RE: RAID 5 Making iMac Hang on Restart, Also Forces Restart? HELP.

I powered off, found the disk, replaced it, then plugged back in. I initialized it with softRaid, then did "Add Disk". It started the rebuild and ran ...

5 years ago
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RE: RAID 5 Making iMac Hang on Restart, Also Forces Restart? HELP.

@softraid-support Thank you for letting me know the serial number. Is there an article or video I can follow for the procedure to replace the bad d...

5 years ago
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RE: RAID 5 Making iMac Hang on Restart, Also Forces Restart? HELP.

@softraid-support This may be a stupid question, but how do I know which disk in the RAID is "Disk 5"? My softRaid keeps crashing on me, so I cannot o...

5 years ago
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RE: RAID 5 Making iMac Hang on Restart, Also Forces Restart? HELP.

I'm able to start up my mac, THEN plug in the RAID thunderbolt cable... then I get Apple "Disk unrecognizable" error messages. If I click "Ignore", th...

5 years ago
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RE: RAID 5 Making iMac Hang on Restart, Also Forces Restart? HELP.

@softraid-support I just want to be clear before doing anything drastic... I can restart the mac with the RIAD unplugged and THEN I plug the RAID into...

5 years ago
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RE: RAID 5 Making iMac Hang on Restart, Also Forces Restart? HELP.

OK, I updated to SoftRaid 6 and was able to plug in the RAID while the computer was running. The RAID is not being recognized, but I can see the SOFTR...

5 years ago
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RE: RAID 5 Making iMac Hang on Restart, Also Forces Restart? HELP.

@softraid-support There is no crash report. When I plug in the RAID disk to the Mac while it's on, it just goes to re-start, then just hangs on the st...

5 years ago
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