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RE: SoftRAID 7.0.1 broken on Monterey?

You will get a separate response. It is a minor UI bug, we intend to make a fix for it. Some kind of "race condition".

3 years ago
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RE: SoftRAID Encryption?

@joemikeb Try downloading MacOS 13.1, and see if it fixes the SoftRAID 7.0.1 issue. this is a "race condition" of some kind, and one user reporte...

3 years ago
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3 years ago
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RE: Stuck on 'rebuilding, waiting on mount'

You are going to need to run a data recovery application, or restore from backup. there are no "repair" tools for APFS volumes. there are a couple rec...

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

@dougbitt Attach a new support file.

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

@mountaincat Thank you. I have a theory that this is related to Time machine. I was able to replicate the panic in our office by making the RAID 5 ...

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

@mountaincat Please attach panic logs as attachments, which you can do if you copy into text edit and "make plain text". that way the forums are ea...

3 years ago
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RE: After update to Catalina I can no longer share any softraid volumes

We changed SoftRAID volumes to be "removable" in 6.3. This was to avoid some time machine bugs. this affected sharing, but there is a workaround. In t...

3 years ago
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RE: 7.01 update bug!

@uwemoeschel Hopefully this week.

3 years ago
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RE: Certification and Drive Firmware Updates

I dont think it makes any difference. Certification is a test of the platters, essentially, and that won't be affected by a firmware upgrade.

3 years ago
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RE: Feature Discussion suggestions

@hoota We did some tests with a comparable fusion setup and did not see any performance gain. M1 may enable us to revisit that.

3 years ago
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RE: Drive Capacity vs Data Written During Certify

This is interesting. I wonder if Activity Monitor is the one that is inaccurate. I will have to investigate this. Nothing to worry about, somewhere,...

3 years ago
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RE: SoftRAID Encryption?

You can only create volumes using disks that are in SoftRAID format. There is no error when you initialize those Disk Utility formatted disks?

3 years ago
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RE: SoftRAID Encryption?

@joemikeb This is a minor bug in SoftRAID. The problem is you are creating a volume that is too small (384MB), because "Database" already takes up ...

3 years ago
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RE: SoftRAID Encryption?

@joemikeb Temporarily run 7.0. Don't install the driver. that will work. When creating a volume for Time machine, just create a standard APFS vol...

3 years ago
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