SoftRAID 5.8.4 Lite keeps crashing - Solving Problems https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/softraid-5-8-4-lite-keeps-crashing/ SoftRAID Discussion Board en-US Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:31:50 +0000 wpForo 60 RE: SoftRAID 5.8.4 Lite keeps crashing https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/softraid-5-8-4-lite-keeps-crashing/paged/2/#post-5174 Fri, 02 Oct 2020 15:51:11 +0000 The SoftRAID driver does not need testing. You could create your volume and do read/write exercises. The SoftRAID driver has been bundled with every version of Mac OS since 10.3. It has to pass Apple testing for this.

The SoftRAID driver does not perform the actual reads/writes, it points OS X to the disk and macOS performs the actual writes. This is for compatibility purposes.

]]> Solving Problems SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/softraid-5-8-4-lite-keeps-crashing/paged/2/#post-5174 RE: SoftRAID 5.8.4 Lite keeps crashing https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/softraid-5-8-4-lite-keeps-crashing/#post-5173 Fri, 02 Oct 2020 14:24:15 +0000 Intertesting.  What do you suggest that I do to test the SoftRAID driver before putting the disk into production?

]]> Solving Problems envoy510 https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/softraid-5-8-4-lite-keeps-crashing/#post-5173 RE: SoftRAID 5.8.4 Lite keeps crashing https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/softraid-5-8-4-lite-keeps-crashing/#post-5172 Fri, 02 Oct 2020 05:51:54 +0000 No, the certify command is actually a low level script. It cannot use the SoftRAID driver, because in OS X, the partition map on a drive determines which driver controls it. Since there is no partition map, only OS X's default driver can control a disk in certification.

]]> Solving Problems SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/softraid-5-8-4-lite-keeps-crashing/#post-5172 RE: SoftRAID 5.8.4 Lite keeps crashing https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/softraid-5-8-4-lite-keeps-crashing/#post-5167 Thu, 01 Oct 2020 23:52:58 +0000 Doesn't use the SoftRAID driver?  Why is that?  That's part of what I want to test, that the driver is also working.

]]> Solving Problems envoy510 https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/softraid-5-8-4-lite-keeps-crashing/#post-5167 RE: SoftRAID 5.8.4 Lite keeps crashing https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/softraid-5-8-4-lite-keeps-crashing/#post-5164 Thu, 01 Oct 2020 20:41:58 +0000 It reports errors, yes.

 

What expertise do you have?  ;-) Yo can send info to support at SoftRaid

]]> Solving Problems SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/softraid-5-8-4-lite-keeps-crashing/#post-5164 RE: SoftRAID 5.8.4 Lite keeps crashing https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/softraid-5-8-4-lite-keeps-crashing/#post-5163 Thu, 01 Oct 2020 19:29:32 +0000 Does the command line report errors if it finds any? If you need another developer to help work on this, please let me know. It is frustrating working with semi-working software especially when a process takes 4 days.

]]> Solving Problems DesertNomad https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/softraid-5-8-4-lite-keeps-crashing/#post-5163 RE: SoftRAID 5.8.4 Lite keeps crashing https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/softraid-5-8-4-lite-keeps-crashing/#post-5157 Thu, 01 Oct 2020 18:08:33 +0000 There is no feedback, except a command prompt when done, but it works. Certify does not use the SoftRAID driver.

]]> Solving Problems SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/softraid-5-8-4-lite-keeps-crashing/#post-5157 RE: SoftRAID 5.8.4 Lite keeps crashing https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/softraid-5-8-4-lite-keeps-crashing/#post-5156 Thu, 01 Oct 2020 17:20:39 +0000 OK, doing a certify via the command line interface now.  Will report how that goes.

]]> Solving Problems envoy510 https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/softraid-5-8-4-lite-keeps-crashing/#post-5156 RE: SoftRAID 5.8.4 Lite keeps crashing https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/softraid-5-8-4-lite-keeps-crashing/#post-5151 Thu, 01 Oct 2020 06:38:29 +0000 Lots of comments.

Its also possible that there is a bug in running in non admin mode, we used to have issues in OSX, but I thought we flushed those out in the 10.4 days. SoftRAID should work in non admin mode just fine, as long as you give permissions.

Full Disk access is required however, so please add it. Else the application will have issues performing tasks, as the Application cannot talk to raw disks.

You can try the command line: softraidtool help and see if it works. We left some command line functions, even we state it is not available, its easier if some commands work.

 

20 minutes is a short time for the app to quit. Most users who see this, it takes at least a day or more to happen. I do not know what the trigger is, however.

]]> Solving Problems SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/softraid-5-8-4-lite-keeps-crashing/#post-5151 RE: SoftRAID 5.8.4 Lite keeps crashing https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/softraid-5-8-4-lite-keeps-crashing/#post-5148 Thu, 01 Oct 2020 01:17:50 +0000 Another clue is that the failure happens after some period of time.  Like 20 minutes?  I wonder if elevation of privs only lasts for some period of time, too, so that's why the app fails after a while?

I don't see SoftRAID in the Security & Privacy > Privacy > Full Disk Access panel.  Maybe that's because the app just talks to something else in the background and it doesn't need disk access.

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