SoftRAID is basically a disk utility program that allows you to connect multiple hard drives together to act as one big .Ī new feature release, 5.6.0 is available and contains many new features. To identify which hard disk failed, read the relevant . On FortiManager units with software RAID, the device must be shutdown prior to exchanging the hard disk. SoftRAID beta 6.((NEW)) SoftRaid 5.6.0 By alasadon Follow | Public Your volume appears in SoftRAID, but does not mount. When you attempt to mount it manually, it tries, but never mounts. If you expand the volume tile for the volume, you will notice there is not a “Disk Identifier”, such as disk8, instead, a – is displayed. There is a bug in Big Sur, where drivers designated as “auto loading” are not loaded at startup. This affects multiple drivers, including the SoftRAID driver. SoftRAID 6.1 beta 7 adds a preference to work around this.
If you are running Big Sur (only, this is not available for Monterey, as we anticipate a fix from Apple before Monterey is released), if you go to “Application” preferences, there is an options to “Manually load SoftRAID driver on restart”. SoftRAID will run a script at restart to manually load the SoftRAID driver. We would like feedback if this is indeed working as anticipated. You can leave comments in our forum.Ī direct link to the latest beta for SoftRAID 6.1 is here:ĭisable Secure Boot on Mojave and Catalina T2 equipped systemsĭoes SoftRAID ask to install the driver every restart? When you create a new volume, do you get an error that “the volume could not be initialized”? Catalina introduced a new requirement for SoftRAID users.
If your machine has a T2 security chip, Catalina will automatically load the limited function SoftRAID driver bundled with macOS. How do I now if my computer has the T2 chip?Īccording to Apple, these Mac computers have the Apple T2 Security Chip: You must have Secure Boot disabled on all computers with the T2 chip installed. MacBook Air introduced in 2018 or later.MacBook Pro introduced in 2018 or later.You can also use System Information to learn whether your Mac has the T2 chip:ġ. Press and hold the Option key while choosing Apple () menu > System Information.Ģ. If you see “Apple T2 chip” on the right, your Mac has the Apple T2 Security Chip In the sidebar, select either Controller or iBridge, depending on the version of macOS in use.ģ. Starting back in 10.9, bug were introduced in the Mac OS installers that made it more and more difficult to install Mac OS X onto SoftRAID disks. Mostly these initial issues were simply bugs and easy to work around.
However, High Sierra’s installer would not install at all. Users could install High Sierra onto a standard non RAID volume, and use a program like Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the OS onto the SoftRAID volume and from then on it would work normally. With 10.13.4, High Sierra prevented Mac OS X updates from being installed onto SoftRAID volumes. Users now had to maintain a full system on an external disk, then clone back to their SoftRAID volume to keep High Sierra updated. There are some corner cases, where it is possible to get a SoftRAID volume to be your startup volume, but it is extremely difficult. However, Apple’s RAID 1 and RAID 0 built in RAID drivers would still function in Mojave as startup volumes. How to get SMART over USB working with CatalinaĬatalina blocks many driver extensions from loading at startup. This is part of the enhanced security measures Apple is taking to make macOS less vulnerable to hack attempts. The SMART driver included with macOS does not support SMART over USB or FireWire devices. If you want information about a USB drive’s health, you must turn to a third-party extension to enable SMART data to be obtained over the USB bus. OWC has written such a driver, which is included with SoftRAID.
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