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RE: Validation *always* turns up blocks that need updating on one volume...what does that mean?

This is the nature of SSD's. You will never (nearly never) see updated blocks on HDD's. However, TRIM means that the drives are always moving data and...

3 years ago
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RE: Raid 5 Increase Size

We are close to fixing this bug. It might make it into 7.0.1. Otherwise, the next update. If you cannot wait, then yes, Big Sur/6.0.5 (or older) wil...

3 years ago
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RE: Kernel Panic After Login

@sgoto I think what is going on is on a RAID 5 volume, there are many small I/O's sent to the system (SoftRAID is multi threaded to help performanc...

3 years ago
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RE: SoftRAID Read Disk Error

ll you should need to do is clear the io errors, (utilities menu) and that will take care of this. A disk may have temporarily hung, is all that hap...

3 years ago
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RE: Kernel Panic After Login

@sgoto Did you "Allow" OWC as an identified developer when you installed the driver? You can "reinstall SoftRAID driver", then allow OWC again.

3 years ago
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RE: Kernel Panic After Login

@sgoto Attach a SoftRAID support file. (Utilities menu)

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

@scatteredbrain APFS is in theory more robust, but still has issues. My problem with APFS at present is there are no "repair" tools when anything g...

3 years ago
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RE: Popup message relating to driver every time I open the app

@rsmith4321 Let me know if any more issues.

3 years ago
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RE: Kernel Panic After Login

@sgoto Please try this yes. Just pull it one inch.

3 years ago
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RE: Popup message relating to driver every time I open the app

@rsmith4321 You can reinstall over the old OS and it does NOT overwrite your existing system, apps or anything. It only replaces the internal MacOS...

3 years ago
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RE: Kernel Panic After Login

@sgoto One would be enough. But yes, this is the DART IO controller that is crashing. DOes it still panic if you remove one disk from the enclosu...

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

Apple essentially has no repair tools for MacOS HFS volumes with damaged directories. So you choices are: Backup/restoreConnect to a Intel/Big...

3 years ago
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RE: Popup message relating to driver every time I open the app

@rsmith4321 If you ran "sudo softraidtool uninstall" and still have the driver loading, this is a problem in MacOS. It is not resetting the extensi...

3 years ago
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RE: Kernel Panic After Login

Please save a panic log as .txt (Make plain text) in Text Edit. Attach it. I suspect this is the DART IO controller error.

3 years ago
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RE: How to migrate a configuration to new hardware

No. Its simple. Just install SoftRAID onto your new computer. then connect the drives. On M1 you need to do this:

3 years ago
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