No RAID tool in El Capitan!

Take a look at SoftRAID.

Softraid lite will be available 26. Oktober EC compatible for 49dollars and full version for 180 dollars, current version is not compatible with EC. This terminal works for striped RAID https://www.reddit.com/r/osx/comments/3d7aw2/does_el_capitan_disk_utility_suppor t_raid/

I can't tell why your commands didn't work.

In your research did you see this LaCie kb doc?

Russ

jeffbrandt40 wrote:

Any advice?

Walk the drive over to someone who has a Mac that has not upgraded to El Cap and do the formatting there.

MtD

That is the best solution Meg, I have Yosemite start up clone and I can build the RAID from there. Much cheaper than Softraid.

According to this http://www.softraid.com/pages/support/compatibility_notes.html the full version is compatible with El Capitan. But I will still wait for the lite version before I even think of moving to El Capitan. I have a Raid 1 currently running on Yosemite and don't want it broke by El Capitan.

RAIDs are not broken in El Capitan, at least not in tests I've done. You've only lost the ability to create a RAID using Disk Utility. The ability to create a RAID is still in the OS software and can be executed using a Terminal command.

I saw in my reading that some had theirs broken that's why I was hesitant.

Can you pos the command you used to try and create the RAID *exactly as you typed it*?

I see in your post, in the middle of the command:

[Storyboard 1]

what is this????? This certainly does not belong there.

It looks like maybe you copied and pasted from some website and got some garbage characters into the command line.

The command ****probably**** should look more like this --- CAUTION: the numbers may be different next time, depending on what disks are connected to your mac, so check again with the list command before you try.

diskutil appleRAID create mirror MyArrayFancyName JHFS+ disk2 disk3

Edit: changed the command to add the name of the new array and format, which was missing in my initial post.

Looking at your post again:

1) Did you mean to call your RAID "[Storyboard 1]" (with the brackets and a space)?

In the command line, spaces are used to separate commands. This was parsed as two different words "[Storyboard" and "1]"; the first would be the name of the array, and the second the format. Obviously, "1]" is not a valid disk format, hence the error message you got.

2) In my previous post I gave a command to create a mirrored (ie RAID 1), and you wanted a striped (RAID 0).

Hence my proposed command should instead be:

diskutil appleRAID create stripe MyArrayFancyName JHFS+ disk2 disk3

Obviously, change MyArrayFancyName to anything you want, but beware of spaces, as I told you above.

You could escape them in the command line, but probably best is to use a name without spaces. You can then change it in the Finder if you want.

I have an Apple RAID card in my 5,1 Mac Pro running El Capitan and the RAID Utility is in /System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/RAID Utility.app

Is it not there for other users? Maybe it's only there because I have the RAID card installed? I see many folks saying the GUI based RAID tool is gone in El Capitian.

SSoftware RAID is no longer available in Disk Utility as explained in this thread. Luis provides a Terminal line solution. Or might also look at SoftRAID, which is excellent software that's been developed and upgraded over many years.