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Adding Secondary Disk = Reboot/Crash on M1 Mac

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(@john-palaganas)
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I resized it to 1 GB, still doesn't work trying to convert it to mirror RAID 1

 
Posted : 27/01/2021 10:37 pm
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Do you have a disk with no volume on it? The other disk must have 1TB of "free space". Maybe you mistakingly have a volume on the extra disk now? initialize it with SoftRAID to clear it.

 
Posted : 27/01/2021 10:57 pm
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@softraid-support Ok I 'initialized' it now what do I do?

 
Posted : 28/01/2021 7:48 am
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Either "Convert", or "Add secondary disk" depending on how far you got. You should be able to now.

 
Posted : 28/01/2021 11:19 am
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@softraid-support Ok, I added it as a secondary disk to "4 TB RAID 1".

It just needs to 'rebuild' but when I do it, computer restarts/crashes. Back to my original post.

 
Posted : 28/01/2021 11:34 am
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Thanks, I do not see this in my tests. Let me dig further. Attach a new Support file, I can try to test your environment tonight.

 
Posted : 28/01/2021 6:27 pm
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Thanks, I would really appreciate that.

 

 

 
Posted : 28/01/2021 7:10 pm
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I see the problem. I am not sure how to fix it, nor how you got there. Let me ask a engineer the best way to deal with this. It may require essentially resetting your mirrors, using CarbonCopy Cloner.

 
Posted : 28/01/2021 11:42 pm
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@softraid-support What exactly happened? Thank you, please let me know!

 
Posted : 29/01/2021 8:10 am
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@john-palaganas

There is something wrong with the SoftRAID status partitions on one of the volumes. It may be the older one. I cannot interpret the volume status partition, so need to ask an engineer to look.

 
Posted : 29/01/2021 11:11 am
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Thank you, please let me know once you have the information.

 
Posted : 29/01/2021 11:48 am
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@softraid-support If I buy the Carbon Copy Cloner, will it fix my issue?

 
Posted : 30/01/2021 11:59 am
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@john-palaganas

 

Yes, but you will need to deal with both volumes, I think.

The main volume may be part of the issue.

Are you able to "split mirror" on both A and B?

Here is a weekend project...

Split mirror on both volumes.

zero disk on A first.

Initialize disk with SoftRAID, 100 sectors

erase disk with Disk Utility.

Carbon Copy Cloner from A to new volume.

Now you have a Disk Utility volume for both A and B.

Initialize both source disks. Create new SoftRAID volumes on both, A and B

CCC to A and to B.

Convert to Mirror on both.

 

Let me know if this is understandable.

 
Posted : 30/01/2021 1:44 pm
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What do you mean both volumes? Only "A 4TB RAID 1" is having issues and other drives/volumes are fine.

Maybe you meant to split the other drive? I have the old drive(HGST) and the newly installed drive(WDC) that makes up "A 4 TB RAID 1" See screenshot below:

 
Posted : 30/01/2021 1:52 pm
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@john-palaganas

I am not sure, without an engineer to dive into the partition maps, where the source of the problem is, so I am recommending both volumes yes. I don't want you to do A, and still have an issue.

 
Posted : 30/01/2021 2:35 pm
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