SoftRAID lock my volume - Solving Problems https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/softraid-lock-my-volume/ SoftRAID Discussion Board en-US Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:02:12 +0000 wpForo 60 RE: SoftRAID lock my volume https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/softraid-lock-my-volume/#post-7454 Mon, 08 Feb 2021 03:51:23 +0000 Maybe I can get a better technical explanation for this for you. Disks cannot have different BSD identifiers than what is listed in the IO registry. That is what is happening.

]]> Solving Problems SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/softraid-lock-my-volume/#post-7454 RE: SoftRAID lock my volume https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/softraid-lock-my-volume/#post-7450 Mon, 08 Feb 2021 01:39:52 +0000 so speaking to a few software developers who are much smarter than me they mentioned that most windows software raid solution does not rely on the OS identifier of the drive but write their own identifier in multiple locations on the drive, that way the issue of the Mac changing drive identifiers would not matter as the software determines the drives based on it's own identifiers. Supposedly this would be a much better way as it also means a Raid array could be used in any device which can accommodate a the Raid's HD's. Given that the Mac now exists in Mac OS for a while is it time for you guy's to come up with a  better solution than disabling writing to the Drive. At the present stage, your software is not fully compatible with Mac OS Catlina or BigSure

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]]> Solving Problems steve223 https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/softraid-lock-my-volume/#post-7450 RE: SoftRAID lock my volume https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/softraid-lock-my-volume/#post-5663 Wed, 25 Nov 2020 17:17:01 +0000 This is an Apple OS X bug. We have been pushing for it to be fixed for some time now. We have it in Apple engineering's hands at present.

It is a problem for RAID, as a volume is composed of more than one MacOS disk. So if those disk numbers change (called bsd disk identifiers) while disks are connected to the computer, data corruption can result. This message means SoftRAID is preventing data corruption/volume directory damage by pro-actively locking the volume when we detect this state.

We hope this will be fixed in Big Sur, but it is not fixed in the current shipping version.

]]> Solving Problems SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/softraid-lock-my-volume/#post-5663 SoftRAID lock my volume https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/softraid-lock-my-volume/#post-5651 Tue, 24 Nov 2020 08:06:11 +0000 I was wondering will this ever be fixed as I don't have this issue with any other volumes but OWC Raid's and it's quite annoying having to restart my machine every time this happens which is at least a few times per week and usually after Mac went to sleep

 

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