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MP 7,1 Mac Pro 2019 NVME RAID drives failing to mount
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Good news, thankyou.
Was any reference made to this problem in the release notes?
No drop outs happened yet since installation of 15.0 either. I believe I was first one here to install 15 among us 7,1 crowd.
Can I ask, are you are running the Samsung 4TB 990 Pro SSDs with the Sonnet M.2 PCIe card? Any issues?
I am now running two 4 TB 990 Pros and one 1 TB 970 Pro in the Sonnet M.2 PCIe card. I get dropouts when I boot from Windows into Sonoma and I've had a dropout when I booted from Sequoia back into Sonoma.
I've never had a dropout if I don't reboot and I usually do not shut down.
When I was using drive sleep I would loose a 1 TB 860 Evo that would unmount when it went to sleep and not remount on wakeup. Disabling drive sleep has solved that problem.
Edit: New Sonnet M.2 8x4 Silent Gen4 PCIe Card installed and set up as Raid0 and unfortunately I'm still getting the same issues with the drive not being mounted on boot 😫🔫 and doesn't seem to always just be when switching between bootcamp and Sonoma actually as it's happened a few times on just an OSX restart.
6 more days with this beta with numerous shutdowns/reboots & switching to Windows 11 (which is on NVMe) and drives are still being mounted properly on the boot.
Hope this lasts.
BTW, what is your current System Firmware Version ? Mine is:
System Firmware Version: 2062.0.0.0.0 (iBridge: 22.16.5294.0.3,0)
OS Loader Version: 582~242
All this feedback is great.
It's a shame that Apple haven't/won't acknowledge if it's been addressed as this could just be coincidence. Certainly appreciate the feedback but we're all still left a little in limbo here.
No idea to be honest, but I noticed few more reboots compared to installing Beta 1, so I presumed it has to be firmware upgrade. I would also like to know the reason for the update, but probably: security & stability updates.
BTW, 6 more days (20 in total) with no single issue with NVMe mounting, during boot, after switching to Win11 or during use.
You know what, when it comes prime time, I think I'll upgrade, (the what have I got to lose approach), it can't be any worse.
I've just upgraded to Sequoia Beta 2. My Sonnet 8x4 drive wouldn't even mount. I gave up on the 6th restart and am reverting back to Sonoma. 😫
Very sad to hear that. Its now more than 3 weeks without NVMe mount issues on Sonnet 4x4 and U.2. on Beta 1 + 2.
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Be interesting to see what others are having trouble and see if it's machine specific.
I think the Sonnet card mentioned is a 4x4 NVME and a U.2 drive connected to another card.
Ah, thanks, that makes sense. I thought there might have been a cool new combo card of some sort. Wishful thinking.
Update:
After much faff trying to downgrade from Sequoia beta back to Sonoma, which Apple won't let you do easily without completely formatting the drive in boot recovery and reinstalling from a boot usb and bringing everything back from with Time Machine/Migration assistant, Softraid is saying that the Raid on my Sonnet 8x4 is degraded/missing a disk and so will not mount. Even though I can see the missing disk there without errors. I'm thinking this was already an issuse before i Updated to Sequoia as it wasn't mouting before I upgraded and just assumed it was the usual mounting issues, hoping it would appear with the update.
Point I'm making is, ignore my previous comment that Sequoia doesn't solve the issue as @bax2023 hasn't had mounting issues since updating and I'll need to test again once I've rebuilt the Raid and done another update to Sequoia.
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After much faff trying to downgrade from Sequoia beta back to Sonoma, which Apple won't let you do easily without completely formatting the drive in boot recovery and reinstalling from a boot usb and bringing everything back from with Time Machine/Migration assistant, Softraid is saying that the Raid on my Sonnet 8x4 is degraded/missing a disk and so will not mount. Even though I can see the missing disk there without errors. I'm thinking this was already an issuse before i Updated to Sequoia as it wasn't mouting before I upgraded and just assumed it was the usual mounting issues, hoping it would appear with the update.
Point I'm making is, ignore my previous comment that Sequoia doesn't solve the issue as @bax2023 hasn't had mounting issues since updating and I'll need to test again once I've rebuilt the Raid and done another update to Sequoia.
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