jduprey
@jduprey
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Joined: Oct 22, 2021
Last seen: Feb 20, 2023
Topics: 2 / Replies: 15
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RE: Is 64k stripe size the only working option for RAID5 on Apple Silicon with v7 as well?

@softraid-support Right! What I was missing was where in the volume creation screen I could set it. It was after the initial screen where I chose RAI...

1 year ago
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RE: Is 64k stripe size the only working option for RAID5 on Apple Silicon with v7 as well?

How do you set the stripe size? Is that "Optimized for: Server?"

1 year ago
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RE: Major Stability issues with M1 Mac Mini, Big Sur 11.6, SoftRaid 6.1

Its been months now. If I could get the volume to mount, it was stable. However, occasional reboots do have to happen.. and then it was constant ret...

2 years ago
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RE: Major Stability issues with M1 Mac Mini, Big Sur 11.6, SoftRaid 6.1

@softraid-support I'll keep an eye out for updates. Good luck.

2 years ago
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RE: Major Stability issues with M1 Mac Mini, Big Sur 11.6, SoftRaid 6.1

@softraid-support , seems this forum doesn't like something about the panic logs I pasted here.. I'll attach the panic data as a file and see if that...

2 years ago
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RE: Major Stability issues with M1 Mac Mini, Big Sur 11.6, SoftRaid 6.1

@softraid-support, I added thunder bay to the indexing exclusion list around the time that you shared this with me. I cannot recall if I actually reb...

2 years ago
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RE: Major Stability issues with M1 Mac Mini, Big Sur 11.6, SoftRaid 6.1

@softraid-support I may have spoken too soon about 6.2. After 5+ days of uptime and fairly active use of the volume, I had another kernel panic. I h...

2 years ago
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RE: Major Stability issues with M1 Mac Mini, Big Sur 11.6, SoftRaid 6.1

@softraid-support with SoftRAID 6.2, I've been running without crashes a very active RAID5 configuration for five days now. I used the default 16k ch...

2 years ago
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RE: Major Stability issues with M1 Mac Mini, Big Sur 11.6, SoftRaid 6.1

I see.. so are the fixes mentioned in 6.2 in this regard merely catches to yet-to-be-explained exceptions to avoid the kernel panic? The release not...

2 years ago
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RE: Major Stability issues with M1 Mac Mini, Big Sur 11.6, SoftRaid 6.1

@softraid-support, I see SoftRAID 6.2 has been released and from the release notes it appears to address a number of issues including the OS crashes w...

2 years ago
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RE: Major Stability issues with M1 Mac Mini, Big Sur 11.6, SoftRaid 6.1

@softraid-support, it DOES help. Thank you. I have reinstalled 6.1, setup RAID 0 on 3 of my 4 disks. (The other disk, also initialized by SoftRaid ...

2 years ago
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RE: Big Sur on M1 machines and SoftRAID issues

@softraid-support, you are right. Though I'm pretty sure I had this problem even when I disabled sleep completely, I may be wrong. This seems t...

2 years ago
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RE: Major Stability issues with M1 Mac Mini, Big Sur 11.6, SoftRaid 6.1

@softraid-support, thank you for following up. Since I'm going to have to trash the data that I've already copied anyway, I'm willing to reinstall So...

2 years ago
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RE: How to remove the SoftRAID kext from the extension folder?

Via this:/p> This did the trick: sudo kextcache -prune-staging

2 years ago
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