I am currently on tech support with G-Technology and they believe that the G-Speed Shuttle TB3 is compatible with Apple Silicon M1 / Big Sur; however, I cannot get my drives to mount on the new M1 MacBook Pro. Has anyone had any luck mounting G-Technology RAID drives on their M1 Silicon machines?
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G-Speed Shuttle TB3 RAID Compatibility?
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Thanks for confirming it's not just my machine - I am keeping a close watch on their tech support for a solution. Nothing yet! They have not replied via twitter with a support ETA...
They replied with the following via Twitter:
Hello Simon, we’re sorry to hear if you are having trouble with the unit on a new M1 Mac computer. We are working on an update to our G-Speed units that should be out in December. Please keep an eye on our website for when that is released. Need help? Please contact us.
Hello Simon, we’re sorry to hear if you are having trouble with the unit on a new M1 Mac computer. We are working on an update to our G-Speed units that should be out in December. Please keep an eye on our website for when that is released. Need help? Please contact us.
Wanted to throw in my hat here too - LaCie RAID enclosures are also not Apple Silicon ready. The LaCie RAID Manager RAID controller software required to use them has not updated the kernel extension for ARM architecture and does not work, so you can't mount LaCie external drives either.
I do have a support ticket in with them and will update here if I get an ETA for an update.
Code:
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.lacie.driver.mvumi.plist: Permission denied
grabko9000@Grabkos-Mac-mini ~ % sudo /Applications/LaCie\ RAID\ Manager/LaCie\ RAID\ Manager.app/Contents/Drivers/InstallDriver.sh
Password:
Kext user-space log filter changed from 0xff2 to 0xfff.
Kext kernel-space log filter changed from 0xff2 to 0xfff.
Kext library architecture set to arm64e.
Executing: /usr/bin/kmutil load -p /Library/Extensions/LaCieMvumi.kext
Incompatible architecture: Binary is for x86_64, but needed arch arm64e
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.lacie.driver.mvumi.plist: service already loaded
Load failed: 37: Operation already in progressI do have a support ticket in with them and will update here if I get an ETA for an update.
Hello everyone
Is there any news on this topic? I received my mac mini with M1 on last wednesday. I have the same issue as you. I also opened a ticket at Western Digital. Since the transition from G-Technology to Western Digital we don't have some technical support from G-Tech in Germany....
I hope they will find a solution soon.
My old USB 3 Lacie Raid works fine with the Apple M1. It look like it's not a general raid problem.
Is there any news on this topic? I received my mac mini with M1 on last wednesday. I have the same issue as you. I also opened a ticket at Western Digital. Since the transition from G-Technology to Western Digital we don't have some technical support from G-Tech in Germany....
I hope they will find a solution soon.
My old USB 3 Lacie Raid works fine with the Apple M1. It look like it's not a general raid problem.
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I also have the LACIE 4Big Quadra with USB 3.0. This Raid works fine with apple M1. But it is not so fast like the shuttle XL with TB3.
so - this means that managed-hard-raid units are mostly incompatible as they need kernel-level daemon or extension - those are not translated (excluded) by Roseta2
true hard-raid works (driverless ones)
true soft-raid solutions should not work as well until the software has been updated (the same reason as managed ones)
one does not want a beta-level driver for a hard drive...
true hard-raid works (driverless ones)
true soft-raid solutions should not work as well until the software has been updated (the same reason as managed ones)
one does not want a beta-level driver for a hard drive...
Software RAID is much higher performance, more flexible, and generally, besides compatibility issues like these, is generally a better solution. For 4-5 drive RAID enclosures, Software RAID is a much better solution.
Looks like OWC has a public Beta out for their SoftRAID drivers:
SoftRAID, Big Sur, and the New M1 Macs
Rather than preventing users from upgrading to Big Sur, we decided to open the beta release of SoftRAID version 6 to everyone. Here's why...
www.softraid.com
Confirmed - SoftRAID recently released a public beta (b47 i think) which I have up and running on my M1 MacBook Pro. I am now able to access/control my two 4-drive RAID arrays as I could on my Intel Macs!
I have the same problem here with my new Mac mini M1 and the G Speed Shuttle w/ thunderbolt 3 — 32TB ... won't mount for anything, but will function just fine if I plug it into my older MacBook Pro. Created a ticket with WD/G Tech support and awaiting a reply.
I have a G-Speed Shuttle RAID which also wouldn't mount on my M1 MacBook Pro - very disappointing. There is nothing on G-technology's website to help out. I managed to get it to work by downloading the new driver (R_MacDrv_V6_2_16) from the Promise website,
I think all the drivers are the same on that page.
The G-Speed made use of the Intel Ktext and now they have re-written it to work with M1 Macs. The install involves lowering the security at boot to load a non-Apple extension (there are very clear instructions downloadable from the Promise website) but quite frankly to get the RAID working, that's not a problem. It now works like it did before without issue for me - phew! I hope this helps as it was driving me nuts.
I think all the drivers are the same on that page.
The G-Speed made use of the Intel Ktext and now they have re-written it to work with M1 Macs. The install involves lowering the security at boot to load a non-Apple extension (there are very clear instructions downloadable from the Promise website) but quite frankly to get the RAID working, that's not a problem. It now works like it did before without issue for me - phew! I hope this helps as it was driving me nuts.