

#SOFTRAID OVERHEAD CPU MAC OS X#
With 10.13.4, High Sierra prevented Mac OS X updates from being installed onto SoftRAID volumes.

#SOFTRAID OVERHEAD CPU INSTALL#
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.
#SOFTRAID OVERHEAD CPU DRIVERS#
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
