Mounting issue - Tahoe Issues

RE: Mounting issue

iftibashir — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 19:09:37 +0000

Yes thats exactly what happened. Thank you for the explanation. All sorted ;o)

RE: Mounting issue

SoftRAID Support — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 18:53:58 +0000

@iftibashir
Couple observations:
the volume was apparently erased by Disk Utility or some MacOS process. I have seen such cases. As an EFI volume, SoftRAID cannot erase it. It can also happen if you erase a SoftRAID APFS volume as HFS.

This is also why you cannot easily get rid of the volume, it is "semi mounted" so SoftRAID could not unmount/delete the volume.

You did the correct thing using Disk Utility, one blade at a time.

RE: Mounting issue

iftibashir — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:00:04 +0000

Ignore - fixed.

I had to manually format each individual NVMe in Disk Utility. I was then able to open SoftRAID and initialise the drives before creating the RAID array.

RE: Mounting issue

iftibashir — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 15:55:21 +0000

When I try to erase I get this (attached)

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Mounting issue

iftibashir — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 15:50:22 +0000

OWC Thunderblade V4

Can no longer mount the drive. Always been set up as a RAID 0 from factory.

Fortunately I have no important data on it - but it's not letting me do anything. I can't erase, create a new volume etc, and does not mount whatsoever?

Please advise? I just wanted to erase it and create an empty drive.

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