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RE: One or more of the disks for the volume ___ is no longer usable

@MountainCatI am waiting for feedback from engineering. This appears to be related to a hibernation issue in macOS. We are in discussions with this wi...

3 years ago
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RE: are license transfers allowed?

More or less. They will need the customer to register, then the license can be transferred.

3 years ago
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RE: Keneral panics

@mcvosi We have submitted this to Apple, we just got a complete system core dump on this bug from a user. I assume fext is still on the top line o...

3 years ago
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RE: are license transfers allowed?

@dayjob Yes we allow this. Be sure to let them know how many months are remaining on the support plan.

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

@MountainCat Yes, with Monterrey, 64k is the only known workaround. Apple will never add a fix for this MacOS system. You need to backup, delete t...

3 years ago
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RE: RAID 5 disappeared, softraid wouldn't mount it

@dayjob Sorry to hear about this. Any chance you saved the kernel panic for this event? Or if you can repeat, I would love to see a panic log, and a...

3 years ago
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RE: SR7 won't create R4 or R5 volumes

@dougbitt hopefully we can do this Monday.

3 years ago
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RE: Disks on my Thunderbay 6 never stop spinning

@ tatyree All I can really offer is SoftRAID does not initiate any IO on drives, unless you are rebuilding, or some task with the application. It be...

3 years ago
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RE: 7.01 update bug!

@uwemoeschel no need, I found what I was looking for. this turned out not easy to fix, we are working on it.

3 years ago
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RE: Disks on my Thunderbay 6 never stop spinning

@tatyree Note: this will not decrease the life of the drives according to a google study of 100,000 disks and data from other cloud storage platform...

3 years ago
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RE: 7.01 update bug!

@uwemoeschel Can you run this in terminal and see what you get for output? paste it here. sudo ls -l /Library/Application\ Support/SoftRAID

3 years ago
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RE: Sleep / Spin Down

@chrispeden We have escalated this to Apple, but I don't expect any immediate fix, maybe in 14.x? (I am hopeful they will address this issue, whic...

3 years ago
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RE: App won't start

@amcbroom Can you check this in terminal.app? There will either be no output, or a quarantine output: xattr /Library/Extensions/SoftRAID.kext

3 years ago
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RE: SR7 won't create R4 or R5 volumes

dougbitt remind me the disk label name of the disk we are enabling adding the disk from.Is it HD.2 WDe 2T or the Hitachi?(It is about to be worked o...

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

@bmasti the clean install is a "second" installation and will not interrupt your work. Then you have a clue if the problem is inside or outside your...

3 years ago
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