MacExcellence

Problems with SoftRAID and Leopard

Sun, October 28, 2007

The most excellent SoftRAID driver for the Mac is not currently compatible with Apple’s new Leopard installer. After standing in line to get my copy, I was more than distressed to find that my boot volume was not “eligible” for the Leopard upgrade. On looking at the other volumes also not “eligible,” I realized that they were all SoftRAID volumes.

So I shot off a quick note to their support team, and got the following response…

My boot drive is a SoftRaid mirrored volume. Leopard install doesn’t recognize it (or any other SoftRaid volume) as ‘eligible for upgrade or install.

I assume this is a PPC machine?

Please wait for news, it will be 2-3 weeks. The driver works, but there is something changed in the Leopard DVD that we have to figure out, then get a workaround.

thanks

Mark James
SoftRAID, LLC
mjames@ softraid.com

Note to all you SoftRAID users out there: do not try to “get it to work.” You may just munge your install.

Sit tight. And keep on the lookout for updates, either here or at the SoftRAID site.