Last seen: Jun 13, 2026
@williamg Yes. I had this report from a user: "I set up a system with 4 Apple formatted Thunderbay drives. It did not always replicate, but sur...
@jjdodders this is the dreaded DART panic. If you wait 5 minutes before connecting the disks, do they work? (or remove one disk, then inserting i...
@burningman Are you still getting this performance? I may have something for you to test.
Test if the driver is quarantined: There should be no output to this terminal command: xattr /Library/Extensions/SoftRAID.kext
@kevsull That does only apply to RAID 5. I recommend the default 64k unless you have a very good reason to do otherwise.
Can users please test sleep in the Ventura beta? I need some feedback. thanks!
@williamg We have filed a bug report. The problem is unless you complain with Apple RAID drives, the support teams blame third party drivers. So y...
@williamg What I have seen is constant waking, about every 45 minutes. I have seen other similar complaints.
@williamg We just had a user say no, putting a standard system to sleep with either Apple RAID drives or SoftRAID, the drives still wake up on a cy...
I wouldn't be so sure. I had a user test Ventura sleep. Drives keep waking up when you put the System to sleep. (All Apple RAID and SoftRAID volumes t...
@williamg If you want to try it, please do but do not update your existing OS Create a new volume, insrtall Monterey into it, then install Ventur...
@williamg There was an attempt to fix this, it appears. I don't know how effective, user feedback will determine that. BTW: Users have discovered...
@williamg I do not know of a fix. Ventura might fix this. (talk about motivating users to upgrade if this is the case)
Make sure your backups are up to date. Locate the disk for the volume that has 7 missing disks. initilaize that disk. Now you can "Add disk" to ...
Attach A SoftRAID technical support file (Utilities menu) so I can check before giving recommendations.
