- #SOFTRAID CANNOT INITIALIZE DRIVE INSTALL#
- #SOFTRAID CANNOT INITIALIZE DRIVE DRIVER#
- #SOFTRAID CANNOT INITIALIZE DRIVE PRO#
In fairness, this is mentioned in the release notes for version 5.8, which are installed alongside the app.
#SOFTRAID CANNOT INITIALIZE DRIVE INSTALL#
The moment that I restart with Secure Boot turned on, SoftRAID can’t find the required kernel extensions, tries to install them but can’t, so I have to force quit the app, restart in Recovery Mode, disable Secure Boot, then restart before I can use the app again.
#SOFTRAID CANNOT INITIALIZE DRIVE PRO#
What I then discovered, the hard way, is that on my iMac Pro running 10.15.3, I can only run with Secure Boot turned off. This was starting to become a bit more messy than I had expected, but hey ho.
#SOFTRAID CANNOT INITIALIZE DRIVE DRIVER#
SoftRAID 5.8.1 is stated as being “compatible with macOS Catalina 10.15”, but its support pages warn that “Catalina prevents the SoftRAID driver from being installed or updated when Secure Boot, (System Startup Security) is enabled.” So I knew that once I had installed SoftRAID, I’d have to restart with Secure Boot disabled so that the kernel extensions could be installed correctly. Once I had the SSDs and enclosure, it was just a few minutes work to install the drives and get ready to shut my old Pegasus down, ready for replacement. I opted to turn three of those SSDs into a single striped array (RAID level 0) using SoftRAID XT, a product which I had already relied on in the past. The current model seems pretty omnivorous. I did have one heart-stopping moment just after I’d ordered the enclosure: I downloaded the ThunderBay user guide, only to read there that it was incompatible with Samsung 860 EVO SSDs, but a little investigation showed that had only applied to early versions which had shipped in 2018. Then I ordered the enclosure and another two SSDs, with the fourth due on Monday. In a bid to fool myself into believing that this wasn’t really going to cost me $/€/£ 1500, I quietly bought the first SSD late last year. Indeed, what should have been a seamless transition has turned into a bit of a mess: it’s still not really up and running in the way I had intended.Īfter mulling this over and discussing it here, I decided to move my backups onto an OWC ThunderBay 4 (Thunderbolt 3) containing 2 TB Samsung 860 EVO SSDs. I’ve sort of replaced it with an SSD RAID, but it’s only sort of as Time Machine has now stopped working. Last week I finally retired my 8 year-old Promise Pegasus RAID system, which has steadfastly stored my Time Machine backups on a succession of hard disks over those years.
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