Last seen: Apr 24, 2026
@atakacs We got the support file (Its best if you do not rename it) Something very serious is wrong. It appears to me that an HFS volume was er...
All I can offer at present is add "Disk Labels" to the drives, which will sort by the label.Its not possible to sort by enclosure and it wouid be a lo...
@gkanai THere are no SoftRAID formatted disks connected in this support file. And I need a support file with two, then the other two, so I can see ...
Certify times are a rough estimate based on current throughput vs total bytes remaining. Since drives have wildly varying performance (much slower at ...
@atakacs Save a SoftRAID tech support file and attach that here. I can see what is up, I cannot tell what I need to see with screen captures. ...
@atakacs Safeguard prevents you from deleting the volume accidentally with SoftRAID. That is all it does. All other "protections", like error repor...
@torreyloomis You cannot install, nor uninstall, nor upgrade the SoftRAID driver. (as of Ventura) It is a "privileged" driver now. the SoftRAID d...
@atakacs We only allow jpg (for security reasons) RAID is not "backup", it gives additional performance, and redundancy in the event of a disk fa...
You got it, "deactivate" on one, then "Activate" on the new.
@slarti42 If it happens again, check the cable is tight. this is some kind of hardware issue, somewhere. Certify disk is a very low level task and ...
This is a "feature" of APFS. It does not immediately remove deleted files/open free space. One trick I have read is startup in Safe Mode, which will...
@atakacs Did you intentially set your volume to be "Case Sensitive"? that is why I asked about Time Machine, it is the main explanation, as users n...
@slarti42 Certify failures are always hardware failures, but you need to get to the cause. Make sure your system is not sleeping is one help. Let...
SoftRAID was the messenger, not the cause. IO errors are real and SoftRAID reports every event, regardless of cause. (even if it is a file system erro...
Bad cable, faulty enclosure are the most likely suspects. What is weird is "pass number 2" on one set, meaning they completed one certify pass after...

