Has anyone using TARDISK been successful updating into MOJAVE?
Hello Jim,
Yes to following the instructions. Here is what I did. I backed up anything that needed to be backed up and un-peared my Tardisk and then re-formated it to HFS+ and named it TarDisk. (Then run FSCK if you feel the need). I then installed Mojave and got it up and running. (You do not have to do this first if you don't want to) Once it was up and running, I backed it up to a portable drive as my time machine backup. I then followed the steps on the Pear_TarDisk_Mojave.pdf.
Note: While you do copy the Sierra installer to a USB stick, you do not actually install Sierra. It is merely to change the structure of the file system back to HFS+ when Mojave has changed it to APFS. Once that is done, you go then restore your time machine backup of Mojave and everything works great. About the PDF...let me know how and I will send it to you.
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Hey Jimmy. I did it and all is well. My file system is back to HFS+ instead of APFS but I haven't noticed any negatives. In fact, everything is working great! I posted a while back one setting that needed to be changed. You will also need the latest file from TarDisk for the Pearing process. Let me know if you have any questions.
Sorry for the delay everyone - My MacBook has been jacked up for like 2 weeks.
So a couple things -
Now for the fun part I have had too wipe and re-install the OS about 7 times. I have no idea if its TarDisk related but for some reason it stopped waking from sleep. It would get so bad that the if it would wake, the dock would missing and the screen flashing. Not a hardware issue either as Apple has been involved since I threw in the towel. It took its final breath Sunday morning and freaked out so bad it deleted my user profile. Apple claims I have a "corrupt user profile" but my response back to them was how could I have 6 independently corrupted user profiles as I have re-formatted and done a clean install every time. So as I sit here writing this; I am currently running Mojave with NO TRADISK peared. I am going to run like this for a while to see if that was the problem. I will then also attempt to manually create a new fusion drive with the TarDisk for fun of it.
I've been reading all these issues everyone's been having...yikes.
I bought the TarDisk expecting a simple solution for my mid-2014 MacBook Pro 13" with a 256 Gb SSD. It was never simple from the start. The install for Pearing crashed, but then appeared to work...except my computer would crash upon going to sleep about 99 times out of 100, whether it was by folding the MacBook Pro shut, letting it time out or using the menu to put it to sleep. I was putting up with it because it seemed like a real hassle to do what was recommended by the manufacturer - unPearing and rePearing the card. I was able to upgrade the OS clear into High Sierra without any troubles.
Upgrading to Mojave was another story. Total failure, and my machine had to be restored from Time Machine. Then a security update for High Sierra came in - and failed to install, though it fortunately didn't bring the entire machine down with it. Hearing everyone trying to get info out of them sounds nightmarish and looking at their own website is a joke - it looks like they haven't updated a thing since Sierra came out; they don't even have instructions for using it with High Sierra.
At this point, I've decided that the TarDisk is about to become an overpriced, independent SDHC drive. I've reduced my SSD's used space to just below 80% by shoving some files separately into an 8 Tb MyCloud drive with a copy on an external 1 Tb USB drive, I've backed up the system in this state, I'm preparing to unPear the TarDisk and will install Mojave clean from a USB drive. It doesn't sound like it will be one iota of fun, but it's what I'm planning to do. I'll probably use the card for saving my iTunes folder, my personal documents, etc. I have no idea if Time Machine will even back it up from there, but right now, I just want a simple solution that WORKS. This, as I have it now, doesn't really work. I bought a Mac instead of a PC because I wanted SIMPLE, period.
It's almost enough to make me want my next computer to be an iPad Pro!
It's happening to me too, but it should be noted that I experienced the same problem when I upgraded to High Sierra last year, and Sierra the year before that. In both instances I just stuck with it and kept restarting, and eventually (after a very long time), the install worked. So that's what I'm trying again now. I'll post again to let everyone know the results.
Addendum: Disk Utility actually offers to convert the combined drive to HPFS, which does imply that it's still on the legacy file system, HFS+. Such a conversion attempt fails almost immediately.
So it does appear that the High Sierra update software read TarDisk as a Fusion Drive at the end of last year's extended install, and so stopped trying to do the HPFS conversion.
Since, as noted above, Fusion Drives are now compatible with HPFS, the Mojave update software is probably not going to stop attempting the conversion. This likely means that the "rinse and repeat" method that worked for me in past OS upgrades is doomed to failure, but I'm going to keep trying anyway just in case.
Since the APFS compatibility issue is apparently one that will affect every single TarDisk user the moment they try to upgrade, I'm sure that TarDisk being overwhelmed with customer service demands at the moment.
Are you stuck on an install loop like the rest of us? I get that you can access Terminal from the installer OS, but moving files around via Terminal sounds like a tedious process indeed... welcome back to the 1980's.
I also had trouble with Mojave. The upgrade went into a continual loop and even using Command + R I couldn't get back to high Sierra. I then used Command + Option + R on startup and Mojave loaded OK. However after that I created a time machine backup and shortly after I had a problem with mail boxes rebuilding and then complete crash with the NO Entry sign showing on startup. I wonder if this is also a problem with Time Machine that other users are discussing and its wiped my hard drive out. I know there is a work around for the Time Machine thing that very few people seem to know about. Awaiting support from Tardisk but they have been in touch. Will raise time machine thing with Apple
No. I tried the update yesterday and it crashed my mac. I have no hardware errors that appear, no issue with First Aid. Talked to Tier 2 with Apple and they suggested I reach out to TarDisk to see if they have a work around so I don't have to start over with my mac. My backup is not through Time Machine so it's a little more work to restore than I'd like. Emailed TarDisk yesterday- no response. Emailed TarDisk today- no response.
If you got yours to work or got feedback from TarDisk, please post.
Yeah, one of our big gripes with TarDisk is that, despite the fact that they saw this coming years ago, they never warned any of their customers about it. Even now, a good month after Mojave launched, there's not a single public word about the issue to anyone, and nothing about Mojave on their support pages at all.
And despite the fact that you have to go through a huge struggle and permanently downgrade your filesystem just to get it to work with the current operating system (and a big struggle just to find this out), they're still selling it as a "Plug and Play" device.
There are laws against false advertising...
I followed stephaneCal's method on my 2017 MacBook Air with High Sierra installed and it worked perfectly. I restored my files from my TimeMachine. I did get a few warning about permissions for third party extensions, and enabling those seemed to slow up the process. So far everything is working fine. The process did take me a whole day, most of which was restoring 535 GB of data.
I've had some success! Can't say what worked really but I have to thank the recent legalization here for helping me focus.
In Disk Utility, showing All Devices, I First Aided the Untitled under Fusion Drive. After this, I was able to successfully (& easily) restore my computer to Sept 25 in Recovery Mode! I'm running High Sierra 10.13.6. DO NOT UPDATE MacOS to any newer available updates...this led me back to the scary cycle that many of us spoke about in the early days of this... thankfully I could restore it again. No MOJAVE success & I'm not gonna bother trying with TarDisk installed again. I know this sounds incredibly, ridiculously easy, but I'm typing on my MacBook 2014 right now! Good Luck!
To repeat: I only used Disk Utility, had my Back Up connected for restore, other than the 4 hours the restore took...the fix took me less than 30 mins to figure out
Most of my documents and photos are on iCloud so they just downloaded. But everything that wasn't I was able to restore from time machine.
March 11and everything is still working fine. Just wanted to update my results.
I tried to install Mojave, but had the error: "Mac OS couldn't be installed on this computer". Now I can't load OS, can't format disk to journaled files system to unpair tardisk (only APFS is available http://joxi.ru/p27OGbSo7VVn27), and I can't even install High Sierra, because disk is locked (http://joxi.ru/1A5ygXinRP3nAE)! Tardisk support doesn't answer any question.
May be someone know how to unlock disk and reinstall the OS?
I took out the Tardisk and did a clean install of Mojave onto just the apple hard drive. I wipped the Tardisk and am now just using it as a second internal hard drive. I just moved my photos and documents to the Tardisk and set that location as my new defaults.
TarDisk and Mojave
