Last seen: May 11, 2026
What if you try to switch over to SoftRAID 3.0.8.8?
With 7.0.1, you can use Disk Utility to erase an APFS SoftRAID volume as encrypted. We will update the web site with 7.1, as we will have user inter...
@mountaincat We just figured out this may be caused by a MacOS bug. We need to investigate. that would be great news. We may be able to work around...
@dougbitt Interesting. There is a problem somewhere, I need to try to reproduce this. Make sure both volumes are backed up (just in case), then "...
@dougbitt Attach another support file please. On USB, we cannot usually talk directly to the hardware. So we use a probe to see how fast drives r...
@dougbitt Can you delete download? Make sure you unmount the other volumes on this set of disks, DL R5. that may help.
@dabee We figured out this issue and a 7.0.2 should be released next week. It had to do with additional help we added for users who are upgraded, i...
@engineerx It will mount, but they would need to install the SoftRAID 14 day trial to manage the array. The bundled driver cannot alert the user to...
@dougbitt Save a SoftRAID tech support file and attach it. I can see what is happening.
@dougbitt This indicates the driver is loaded. What is the exact problem/symptoms creating a volume?
@nvanlith4gmail-com APFS has so many more features, so use APFS. its performance issues are not really noticeable on SSD's.
@dougbitt Perfect. no quarantine. Try one more command: sudo kmutil load -p /Library/Extensions/SoftRAID.kext This manually loads the driver....
@nvanlith4gmail-com Engineering has figured out the cause and is working on a fix, to be release ASAP, perhaps next week.
@mark5009 I don't. the one drive was showing failure symptoms. It was hanging. Any new symptoms?
@dougbitt Please copy/paste the text. I cannot read the result in the screen capture.

