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RE: SoftRaid Pro Compatible/Incompatible Enclosures List

@skywardSoftRAID Pro supports any reliable direct attached drives. The Drobo is a hardware RAID enclosure. I am not sure if it has a "JBOD" mode, howe...

3 years ago
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RE: Raid 5 Unknown Format

@MortaltionYes EaseUS is another recovery app that seems to be good. thanks for documenting this, hopefully it is useful for any other with this issue...

3 years ago
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RE: SoftRAID Error Application cannot initialise itself correctly

@dmcrobbie this is baffling. Any chance you can access the Apple 13.3 beta? It should solve this issue. I can get you a beta also to run on it.

3 years ago
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RE: Raid 5 Unknown Format

@Mortaltion While it is possible a bad drive could cause this (a write hang for example), it should not.On Windows 10/11 are there any good repair u...

3 years ago
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RE: Should SoftRAID be accessing my SSD?

@DianeMiller MacOS has several sleep bugs. I Don't know why they have been so hard to fix. One is with NVMe drives, when the computer sleeps, they w...

3 years ago
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RE: SoftRAID Error Application cannot initialise itself correctly

@dmcrobbie Is this an M1? did you do this? Just in case we skipped a step here...

3 years ago
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RE: SoftRAID Error Application cannot initialise itself correctly

Lets look at the directory: ls -als /Library/Application\ Support/SoftRAID/

3 years ago
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RE: Should SoftRAID be accessing my SSD?

@DianeMiller try downloading a utility that keeps your disks awake, either Caffeine, or Amphetamine

3 years ago
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RE: Should SoftRAID be accessing my SSD?

@DianeMiller This is a macOS issue, not SoftRAID. The SoftRAID application displays the SSD, yes, but it is ini Apple format, so the SoftRAID driv...

3 years ago
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RE: Should SoftRAID be accessing my SSD?

@DianeMillerI am not sure I follow Can you attach a SoftRAID Technical support file? (Utilities menu) What do you mean by the Monitor coming to li...

3 years ago
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RE: SoftRAID Error Application cannot initialise itself correctly

@dmcrobbie My mistake, I put the \ in the wrong side of the spacesudo /Library/Application\ Support/SoftRAID/softraidtool uninstall

3 years ago
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RE: "macOS can't repair the disk." Thunderbay 4 with TB2/Mac Studio/Monterey 12.6.1/SoftRAIDXT 6.3

@scatteredbrainBTW Disk Warrior 5.3 was released, which supports HFS on M1 and Ventura. Great news!

3 years ago
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RE: SoftRAID Error Application cannot initialise itself correctly

@dmcrobbie the command line tools do not expire. Something is mucked up in your System, perhaps the alias pointers to the Application support folder...

3 years ago
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RE: SoftRAID Error Application cannot initialise itself correctly

@dmcrobbie This is odd. I assume that you get help if you enter: softraidtool help right? what about? softraidtool status Since this is th...

3 years ago
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RE: Active disk seen as missing in RAID 5?

@PlayMeAGroove I can expedite that, let me work on it.

3 years ago
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