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RE: NVME and SSD Raid

@mjumpman23 All partitions in RAID volumes are identical sized. that is why. You cannot efficiently mix drive sizes

3 years ago
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RE: SMB shares from soft raid volumes can't be mounted from remote server under Sonoma

@kaijujoe66 Did you try specifically sharing the volume (+volume)? Or sharing any folder inside the volume?

3 years ago
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RE: NVME and SSD Raid

You have a mismatch there. Not much you can do. You can RAID 0 the two small drives. Perhaps use Carbon Copy Cloner to target the large HDD for a back...

3 years ago
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RE: Any idea why upgrading to 7.6 from 7.5 the helper tool gets hung up?

@dguisinger01 Note: SoftRAID cannot rebuild a volume that cannot mount. this is intentional for data safety. If a volume is damaged (directory),...

3 years ago
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RE: Any idea why upgrading to 7.6 from 7.5 the helper tool gets hung up?

@dguisinger01 This is an encrypted volume, correct? I saw in your posted panic log, that the crypto driver was in the backtrace. You power off wh...

3 years ago
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RE: Upgrade advice needed

There are no issues. However, good advice is always remove all external storage, when upgrading MacOS. Your problem was a directory issue, not a "Soft...

3 years ago
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RE: Any idea why upgrading to 7.6 from 7.5 the helper tool gets hung up?

@stevebgb You can attach txt files, but keep in mind, Text Edit always saves as a hidden .rtf, unless you use the "Make plain text" command. I am...

3 years ago
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RE: Kernel Panics Softraid 7.5

@jd1 There are no M2 issues with Sonoma that involve softRAID, except rare ones. So yes it is safe to upgrade (no introduced issues) I think you ...

3 years ago
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RE: Any idea why upgrading to 7.6 from 7.5 the helper tool gets hung up?

@dpz Keep in mind there is no longer a beta SoftRAID driver, so it makes no functional difference when you run a beta or release. You can try you...

3 years ago
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RE: Can't install 7.6 on M2 Max with Ventura 13.6

Give the app full disk access. As of 13.3, no more reduced security requirements, etc. So that is not the issue. We do not have a public beta, so go...

3 years ago
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RE: RAID5 was a bit slow so I ran DiskWarrior, now all 4 disks i/o errors, degraded, failed

@stevek I did not see it running, but indexing? (mdworker primarily) Neither DriveDx nor Disk utility first aid could have fixed these. strange...

3 years ago
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RE: Any idea why upgrading to 7.6 from 7.5 the helper tool gets hung up?

@witchbutter Note: 7.5 does not load in Sonoma. You can go to softraid.com/support and key older versions are available on the right.

3 years ago
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RE: RAID5 was a bit slow so I ran DiskWarrior, now all 4 disks i/o errors, degraded, failed

@stevek A 4 disk RAID 5 should be getting 400-800MB/s depending on the disks, and computer. 200 is very slow. Even with a fairly full volume. So so...

3 years ago
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RE: Best way to transfer data to new hard drive

Yes. You can also, use "split mirror", insert the new larger disk, initialiaze it, and "add secondary disk", and rebuild. When done, repeat with the r...

3 years ago
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