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Ive just upgraded to El Capitan but when going to Disk Utility to make a raid system it has seemed to have gone!
Does anyone know if it has been removed from Disk Utility or if it has been relocated?
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.4.11)
I just did it, successfully - quit & restart with Option/Command/R - open Disk Utilities & BINGO! there it is> RAID as in Yosemite - I dragged my 2 HDs into it & I was good to go on a restart - no Terminal No nothing - Apple did't even know about it
Rock on!
Al
daniel.from.lanus wrote:
El Capitan, ver:10.11.3, does not have that...
Did you read carefully what Redcat7 wrote? He did it by using the network recovery mode.
Edit: I just tried it by booting with Command-Option-R and indeed I got the "old" Disk Utility.
spinningstill wrote:
Yes. MBP is El Capitan as well. MBP was wiped and clean install of El Capitan.
My point is that this MBP model was launched *before* El Capitan, whereas your iMac already came from the factory with El Capitan installed.
Command-option-R takes you to whatever version of OS X was current at the time your machine was manufactured. So mine takes me back to Tiger. That doesn't really help me build a RAID for El Capitan.
SoftRAID claims to be able to do this and to be able to put a recovery partition on the disks but they don't say how to do it. I've asked on their support board but there has been no response so far.
Thanks for the helpful answer.
The reason it works is that Option/Command/R is a restore over the internet to the original OS the computer shipped with. This might not work on a computer that is newer - unfortunately.
dave
Give Redcat7 a cookie!
Ingenious solution; no terminal, no software to buy, and extra points for giving me the satisfaction of using Apple's own software to outsmart them.
Am i missing something. The link refers to the SoftRAID software that I need to buy. Is there another solution given that I missed?
Thanks for the help.
Excellent, thanks for the thorough description. I'll try it.
Which, is no solution when you manage your OSX server from your office, some 30 miles from the datacenter it's in.
El Capitan, ver:10.11.3, does not have that...
It does work. I checked it once and it didn't show up. Great. So unfortunate to not include RAID5.
Thought something was odd. Shows up on MBP (2011) but not on new iMac (2015). : /
spinningstill wrote:
Thought something was odd. Shows up on MBP (2011) but not on new iMac (2015). : /
Just a guess: your iMac already came with El Capitan, right?
Yes. MBP is El Capitan as well. MBP was wiped and clean install of El Capitan.
Yes, I figured thats what you meant. Thank you! Kind of odd though. Hope they bring it back. Still can use the terminal though, but not for 5.
How to set up RAID in El Capitan
