Sonoma Issues

I meant I had v8 downloaded initally some time ago, and been using it with Ventura. When I upgraded to Sonoma, Softraid v8 stayed. I then downloaded 7.6b6 and started it, that worked fine. But even after a restart, the default would still be v8. So I had to completely uninstall SoftRaid, and then reinstall 7.6b6. No big issue though, not too many people will have downloaded v8 :) All is working fine, too, with 7.6b6.

@sunstarfire 

You cannot change the driver that loads from MacOS. Its complicated.

Totally fine as long as it works :) And it does flawlessly.

macOS Sonoma beta 4 solved my problem with Thunderblade and SofttRaid.
Until now the Thunderblade made my machine crash.

MacStudio with Thunderblade (TB3) and ThunderBay (TB2) and SoftRaid 7.6b6.

@robbie

Thanks for reporting this. You are confirming that the fix in MacOS 13.5 for the problem that causes the computer to crash on startup, when certain NVMe drives are attached, is now fixed in the beta 4 of Sonoma. I am sure other readers will appreciate this.

Just installed beta 7.6 b12 on macOS Sonoma Version 14.0 Beta (23A5301h)

Everything appears to be working ok. SoftRAID 7.5 would not run (all drives were accessible in Finder). I have not uninstalled 7.5.

Cheers,

Queequeg

I just downloaded Softraid 7.6 (release version).  Is it normal that it says the driver is v7.5?

Yes.

The SoftRAID 7.5 driver loading in Ventura is normal. In Ventura, MacOS will always load the 7.5 driver, regardless of the SoftRAID application version.

My ThunderBlade persistently fails to mount running SoftRAID 7.6 on the Sonoma RC. Is anyone else experiencing this issue? Any advice?

This has been ongoing for a few weeks. I chalked it up to the Sonoma beta and SoftRaid beta. 

I downloaded and installed the 7.6 update and the latest Sonoma beta yesterday and the issue persists. Any ideas/thoughts?

@jdotc 

Attach a SoftRAID tech support file. The Thunderblade should always be mountable. My guess is the directory is damaged, it has nothing to do with SoftRAID's driver, or Sonoma.

@mcc716 

This is not a kernel panic. this is the SoftRAIDtool crashing, i.e, the Application "crashes", or the SoftRAID Monitor crashed, correct?

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@mcc716 

This is not a kernel panic. this is the SoftRAIDtool crashing, i.e, the Application "crashes", or the SoftRAID Monitor crashed, correct?

Honestly, I don't know what's crashing when that alert pops up. All it says is "SoftRAID Tool" crashed. My Thunderbay 4 is still accessible and I can open up SoftRaid Monitor without any problems. That error pops up every hour like clockwork, though. 

@mcc716 

Every hour? We may need to create a debug tool to investigate, but I will bring this into engineering for investigation. There should not be hourly crashes by the tool (A kernel panic is when the machine restarts).

Can you try a clean install, in a second volume. I believe you will see this is something in your System.

Run Disk Utility. Click on your internal boot disk, click + volume. Select APFS. restart into recovery mode and "reinstall MacOS". Point it to this new volume.

this does not affect your existing system at all. You can set startup just like if it were a separate disk. Now, if this is an hourly thing, it should be easy to test. thanks!

@mcc716 

Please also attach a SoftRAID Technical Support file (from this current system), so we can look for oddities.