BTW: Screen shorts are not necessary if you are sending a support file. It has everything I need to see.

the panics you are getting are a specific type that we are working on with Apple. Usually caused by a faulty disk that is stalling the system, but also seems to be involved in file systems that are damaged.

Your disks appear OK, the IO error on each disk is from the kernel panics probably.

I am concerned about the panics coming back, its possible MacOS fixed the issue.

If you are sure your volume is stable, then use the SoftRAID volumes command "recover failed disks". this will fix the state and verify the volume, which you need to allow. It will take a while, but you can use the volume in the mean time. Then clear the io counters on the disks, and your volume will be whole.

but do not do that unless your volume no longer is causing panics.

For now im able to connect to that Volume, even thought its saying its degraded and corrupt. Im moving some imporatnt files to a backup drive for now, and I have a Synology on RAID0 that has been backing up my ThunderBay8 so i have all my files backed up

Try removing one volume of drives, connecting and see if it crashes.

then the other 4. that is best if possible. also it may tell you which RAID is causing the problem.

I would really like a support file with drives attached. that way I can inspect the drives. As mentioned, if it crashes quickly when drives are connected, remove two, connect & ave a support file, then pull those drives out a bit, and push in the two. removed, and save another support file when they show up in SoftRAID.

I can tell so much more when drives are connected...

Text Edit saves all files as RTF, unless you use the "make plain text" command.

Maybe you can get the support file, I need that. Utilities menu in SoftRAID.

If you cannot create one because of crashes, pull out two disks, save a support file, then put them in and connect the rest and save another support file. Then attach both support files.