SoftRAID 8.3 having issues with MacOS Sequoia 15.1 - Functionality Issues

RE: SoftRAID 8.3 having issues with MacOS Sequoia 15.1

SoftRAID Support — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 19:42:47 +0000

@imacer

This is on your iMac Pro, correct? I will make a note to test this, if we can reproduce it with steps, we will report to Apple.

RE: SoftRAID 8.3 having issues with MacOS Sequoia 15.1

iMacer — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 09:33:15 +0000

@softraid-support I actually had to downgrade to macOS 14 so I could keep working, the system was horrible unstable with macOS 15. After going up to 15.2 the USB drivers started to fallback to USB2 making my external enclosures very slow to interact with. I don't think I will want to go back to macOS 15 any time soon sorry.

RE: SoftRAID 8.3 having issues with MacOS Sequoia 15.1

SoftRAID Support — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 19:15:21 +0000

@imacer

Some things that may help in testing this:
if you only have 2 disks, create a non RAID, and convert to Mirror, does that work?

If yes, if you do a 3 drive RAID 5 (only 3 drives in enclosure), does it work?

RE: SoftRAID 8.3 having issues with MacOS Sequoia 15.1

SoftRAID Support — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 02:07:51 +0000

@imacer

I need a SoftRAID tech support file. (if you cannot attach it, use filetransfer.io and post the link)

RE: SoftRAID 8.3 having issues with MacOS Sequoia 15.1

iMacer — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 01:31:37 +0000

I am having an issue where I could create a RAID set but not delete it or add members to it.

At first it appeared the system was locking up when deleting or adding members to the raid set.

After more investigation I discovered the USB drivers or ports seem to crash or die.

My USB mouse will stop functioning but my bluetooth keyboard continues to function so I can reboot from the terminal to get the USB working again.

Hardware:
iMac Pro 2017
Mediasonic USB 3.2 4 Bay 3.5” SATA Hard Drive Enclosure DAS – USB 3.2 Gen 2 10Gbps Type C
4 x Seagate IronWolf Pro ST20000NT001 20TB

Software:
macOS 15.2
SoftRAID 8.3

Testing:
I was running 15.1.1 when the issue first happened.

Reset NVRAM, still happened.

Updated to 15.2 still happened.

Updated SoftRAID to 8.3, still happened.

Installed 14.7.2 on another disk and booted from that, I could do any operation on the RAID set with no issues.

My conclusion:

I have had other odd USB issues after updating to macOS 15, I use a Focusrite Scarlett audio interface that I have to unplug and plug in on every reboot to get it to be recognized by the OS.

It would seem there are issues with the USB drivers of the macOS 15 release.

Wanted to report here and see if anyone else is having issues with SoftRAID USB drives on macOS 15 Sequoia.

RE: SoftRAID 8.3 having issues with MacOS Sequoia 15.1

Markmsf — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 22:57:36 +0000

I'm running a 2019 Mac Pro with the Sequoia 15.2 release candidate, a bunch of SATA raids and a Thunderbay 8 and so far, so good.

RE: SoftRAID 8.3 having issues with MacOS Sequoia 15.1

SoftRAID Support — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 17:01:22 +0000

@desertnomad

It will work fine.

RE: SoftRAID 8.3 having issues with MacOS Sequoia 15.1

DesertNomad — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 15:45:59 +0000

I just bought a 14" MacBook Pro (M4 Pro) and plan to hook it to my ThunderBay 8 and ThunderBay 4. Obviously I am running macOS 15.1.

Will this work with 8.3, or am I going to see kernel panics until 15.2 is released?

RE: SoftRAID 8.3 having issues with MacOS Sequoia 15.1

SoftRAID Support — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 02:47:08 +0000

@lychee128
Thanks, yes, other users made the same discovery, that 15.2 fixes this issue, which is great! (we cannot comment before users start publicly commenting, its not that we do not test, we have to wait for public confirmation.)

Thanks for sharing!

RE: SoftRAID 8.3 having issues with MacOS Sequoia 15.1

SoftRAID Support — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 02:45:16 +0000

@kenh

We do not support adding disks, to increase capacity sorry, you wold need to delete your volume and create a new one. Sorry!