Do you actually need one? Why not just use the Spotlight keyboard shortcut to bring up the Spotlight search bar, and then type your calculation in there?
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Apple Seeds First Beta of macOS Sonoma 14.1 to Developers
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Ditto here for an iMac on an earlier OS with a La Cie raid system (been a while, forgot the specific OS, Monterey and Big Sur I think). In my opinion Apple’s integration of computer with attached third party hard drives sucks. These are third party drives sold through the Apple Store. Made sure the computer never slept, only display off or power off in addition to no HD sleep. Any reboot or power off required an eject of the attached drive first. Still seems true - an unexpected issue during my Mac Studio upgrade to Sonoma with an attached SSD drive. Got the message after upgrade that my attached drive was not ejected properly. Does anyone know why an eject is required before a reboot (or shutdown)? Why is external HD ejection not part of the computer’s shutdown or reboot process process?
Yes. Seems to not work in every text field however. Bit odd and inconsistent.
How on earth would some random version numbers even matter to anyone
Because I see macOS 13.6 but iOS is on 16.7. So I’m checking to make sure that macOS 13.7 doesn’t exist.
Ensuring our machines are running the latest update for security purposes is a huge deal.
Why on earth do you not care but yet you’re respond to me? lol wild
Yeah so I work in IT too and we have to keep track of updates to so many different software packages, that we barely even notice their names anymore, not to mention version numbers. But it doesn't even matter, because there's solutions now that do that for you - no one in their right mind would even try to remember version numbers etc and/or check them by hand one app after another when there are dozens of apps/services/OSes in todays it systems.
Yes, This. I now usually wait until around January to upgrade my primary studio computer. past experience has taught me that it's just not worth it on a machine where workflow is critical.
All the Laptops get it at X.1 because they don't matter so much.
This would be less of a problem, substantially less—yes, still a pain in the butt, tho less of a *problem*—if Apple would just do like Windows has for 2 decades and allowed users to configure/disable cache-on-writes on external volumes. At this point, I don’t even care if it would be command-line. It just needs to happen. That Apple has allowed this to fester for a **decade!**, imperiling user data via corruption caused by catalog changes sent into the ether when external drives get unexpectedly disconnected, it’s just downright disrespectful. Hostile, even. Unacceptable. And completely avoidable.
I haven't had that issue but the 'you didn't eject' message would come up multiple times before my GPU, SSD, and sound was replaced (thankfully under warranty just before it expired). Since then, there was no issue. Is your Pegasus ejecting only since the update?
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My Pegasus has been ejecting for the last several years, and on different Macs due to these wake problems (if I disconnect the Pegasus, the computer still has these issues and the Pegasus doesn't wake by itself):
Interesting. I briefly scanned the post you mentioned. Are the wake problems consistent or random? Since you're saying it's happening on multiple machines, it's possible this is a Pegasus problem vs Mac. I'm assuming you have the latest firmware for the R6? I haven't used my R6 in a few years, but my R8 (firmware 5.04.0000.64) gave me those ejecting issues just before the GPU was replaced but hasn't given an issue since. Coincidence? I'm not so sure.
Unfortunately my iMac decided to install Sonoma overnight since I already had it downloaded to my computer so we'll see if I get the same wake issue again that you're experiencing. If so, then yes I would assume it's an OS thing with Promise and Apple not playing nicely together.
I'll spitball a few things, but I'm wondering if it's a network setting somewhere within your router or IP (or in the network settings of your Macs) that's causing the computers on your network to react a certain way. I'm curious if there's something forcing your computer to 'sleep' that's not in an accessible menu (like WOL). I can't imagine that would affect attached drives but since the Pegasus needs an active connection, if the computer goes to sleep or something, that would be 'ejecting' incorrectly.
I'm assuming you've tried different cables (and manufacturers) and ports on each computer? Again since this is happening on multiple computers, I can't imagine it's a port issue but maybe cable?
Have you checked the Dashboard in the Promise app? Everything is marked 'OK'? What about in the NVRAM events to see what events are happening at specific times?
Have you chatted with Apple about this? I ended up speaking to a senior advisor for over a month over direct email to resolve it. Reinstalling the OS would work fine for a few days and then it would revert to ejecting (even when I reset the computer back to factory settings and didn't change anything that could cause the issue). Once they replaced the GPU and SSD, everything was totally fine.
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The issue is consistent. Even with no external drives connected, the iMac dark wakes minutes after sleeping. I've checked everything you mentioned. A interesting note is that the TB2 to TB3 adapter was faulty at one point casuing ejections. I replaced it, and that appeared to fix the ejection issue for a time. I haven't talked to Apple, and I'm just tired of the dozens of hours spent troubleshooting. Perhaps the iMac, the Pegasus, or both are just faulty. But as I mentioned the sleep/wake issue still happens even when the raid is not attached.
Hmm ok so then it sounds like it's a Mac issue rather than the RAID. It's just a coincidence that we have the same setup. I have the Apple TB2 to T3 adapter but I never thought about that being faulty. Hope you get it figured out because I understand how frustrating it is.
Gotta nudge customers towards buying those expensive internal SSDs instead of using cheap external ones…
At least back when you could upgrade the internal SSD, even if that meant a trip to an Apple Store or an AASP and plunking down $$$ for ridiculously Apple-priced parts, it was reasonably POSSIBLE to correct your mistake of not having contributed enough to the coffers of Apple at the outset.
Now, that requires a whole new machine, an environmental catastrophe. (And it isn’t like Apple has chosen to liberally equip their entry-level models with RAM or storage.)
So sad what Apple has become.