OWC has written such a driver, which is included with SoftRAID. 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. The SMART driver included with macOS does not support SMART over USB or FireWire devices. This is part of the enhanced security measures Apple is taking to make macOS less vulnerable to hack attempts.
How to get SMART over USB working with CatalinaĬatalina blocks many driver extensions from loading at startup.
However, Apple’s RAID 1 and RAID 0 built in RAID drivers would still function in Mojave as startup volumes.
There are some corner cases, where it is possible to get a SoftRAID volume to be your startup volume, but it is extremely difficult. Users now had to maintain a full system on an external disk, then clone back to their SoftRAID volume to keep High Sierra updated.
With 10.13.4, High Sierra prevented Mac OS X updates from being installed onto SoftRAID volumes.
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. However, High Sierra’s installer would not install at all. Mostly these initial issues were simply bugs and easy to work around. 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. 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. Press and hold the Option key while choosing Apple () menu > System Information.Ģ. You can also use System Information to learn whether your Mac has the T2 chip:ġ.
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. We would like feedback if this is indeed working as anticipated. SoftRAID will run a script at restart to manually load the SoftRAID driver. 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 6.1 beta 7 adds a preference to work around this. This affects multiple drivers, including the SoftRAID driver. There is a bug in Big Sur, where drivers designated as “auto loading” are not loaded at startup. 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. When you attempt to mount it manually, it tries, but never mounts. Your volume appears in SoftRAID, but does not mount. SoftRAID beta 6.1 fixes driver loading problem in Big Sur