rolfkyburz
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Q: RAID Utility software not available in OS X Mavericks?

Up till yesterday I have been using a RAID card in my Mac Pro (Mid 2010, 4 x 1 TB SATA, initially as RAID-5, now in a RAID-10 setup) under OS X 10.8.5 without any issues, and the RAID utility allowed me to check the status od me disks, event log, and the battery status / refresh cycles for the RAID card. Last night now I upgraded to OS X Mavericks. The upgrade went well, things appear to work OK, obviously at least half of my RAID-10 array is in use — however, I can't find the RAID utility, check the status of the RAID-10 system and the battery status of the RAID card. The disk utility shows the RAID set - but none of the underlying features (individual disks and their status, logs, battery) — am I thrown back to a soft RAID, and my investment into a RAID card has evaporated?

Mac Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9), RAID card, RAID-10

Posted on Oct 24, 2013 2:02 AM

by Seliqui,Solvedanswer
Seliqui Seliqui
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A:

They moved the RAID Utility over here:

 

/System/Library/CoreServices/Applications

 

This is also where your Network Utility was spirited away to.

 

Don't ask me why.

Posted on Nov 12, 2013 11:53 AM

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Q: RAID Utility software not available in OS X Mavericks?

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  • by Seliqui,Solvedanswer

    Seliqui Seliqui Nov 12, 2013 11:53 AM in response to rolfkyburz
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    Nov 12, 2013 11:53 AM in response to rolfkyburz

    They moved the RAID Utility over here:

     

    /System/Library/CoreServices/Applications

     

    This is also where your Network Utility was spirited away to.

     

    Don't ask me why.

  • by rolfkyburz,

    rolfkyburz rolfkyburz Nov 13, 2013 12:18 AM in response to Seliqui
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    Nov 13, 2013 12:18 AM in response to Seliqui

    Thanks a lot, Seliqui! the reason why I did not find it is that a) after the upgrade to Mavericks, the icon that I previously had parked in the dock no longer worked, and b) the new location for the utility can't be found anywhere on the Launchpad. I suspect both effects are an indication that they missed to add the new directory to the command path. I can hardly imagine that this was deliberate because if you have a RAID card you definitely want to have access to that utility — not just in case of a disk failure (I have had a couple of these!), but also in order to stop the user from doing things one is not supposed to do while the battery is reconditioning.

  • by tom2lee,

    tom2lee tom2lee Aug 20, 2016 11:43 PM in response to rolfkyburz
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    Aug 20, 2016 11:43 PM in response to rolfkyburz

    I am happy for you. You are a lucky man.