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RE: What is the correct action to take if 2 disks are faulty in RAID 5?

I understand what you are saying totally. Remember, flash is very fast AND RAID is not backup, so if you keep your RAID backed up, you have both spe...

1 year ago
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RE: What is the correct action to take if 2 disks are faulty in RAID 5?

@sergey Absolutely! In fact 15.3 fixes even more bugs and crashes (kernel panics), so it is a good update. There were some issues with intel comp...

1 year ago
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RE: What is the correct action to take if 2 disks are faulty in RAID 5?

@sergey Absolutely. It will not help your system. I would disconnect your drives before updating, however.

1 year ago
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RE: What is the correct action to take if 2 disks are faulty in RAID 5?

@sergey If you cannot validate, then your only option is update your backup now! Then restore your data.You are at very high risk at present, wit...

1 year ago
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RE: What is the correct action to take if 2 disks are faulty in RAID 5?

@sergey I think you reinstalled or updated MacOS, as the SoftRAID log only goes back until earlier today. So I cannot tell you when this started, e...

1 year ago
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RE: Disk stuck in "waiting for mount" and read-only

@stban Logistics are too difficult with you in Europe. Are you backed up? (or can you update your backups?)

1 year ago
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RE: SoftRAID Error : An internal part of the SoftRAID application has stopped functioning properly. Please quit SoftRAID and relaunch it.

@ptoly7365 Yes you would have to erase all the disks with Disk Utility. If I remember, you cannot initialize zfs disks using SoftRAID.

1 year ago
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RE: What is the correct action to take if 2 disks are faulty in RAID 5?

Save a support file from SoftRAID and attach it. And start backing up immediately

1 year ago
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RE: SoftRAID Error : An internal part of the SoftRAID application has stopped functioning properly. Please quit SoftRAID and relaunch it.

@ptoly7365 I checked your drives. I can resize the volume to 8TB, or to 4TB, no problem. This is of course with a "clean" volume. Try disable Spo...

1 year ago
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RE: New Mac Studio M2. SoftRaid 8.3. ThunderBay Flex8. All Volumes Disappeared Waking Up - Not A Good Start!

@guitarflex I have seen similar now with Toshiba drives with different model numbers, but not with Seagate. We have this under investigation. Not...

1 year ago
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RE: SoftRAID Error : An internal part of the SoftRAID application has stopped functioning properly. Please quit SoftRAID and relaunch it.

@ptoly7365 I have to paste your partition maps onto some disks and test this. It appears OK to me, but it is hard to tell at times. I will try to...

1 year ago
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RE: Disk stuck in "waiting for mount" and read-only

@stban Here is what I would want to do:Either: Borrow your disks, repair your volume and send it back, and keep a copy of your directory structures...

1 year ago
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RE: Disk stuck in "waiting for mount" and read-only

@stban Can you wait a few minutes. I may want to capture some data....

1 year ago
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RE: Disk stuck in "waiting for mount" and read-only

What is happening is you replaced a drive, when the directory was already damaged. It could no longer mount. Lets try this:Pull out the new disk and...

1 year ago
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RE: SoftRAID Error : An internal part of the SoftRAID application has stopped functioning properly. Please quit SoftRAID and relaunch it.

@ptoly7365 Can I see a support file where the drives are all connected? (the ones you want to resize?) or are they the same, and all you need is fo...

1 year ago
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