Hi jgaltone,
Let me know when you test with the R710. I have an R710 with 6 drives. I initially installed jun's mod for 6.0 and it worked great. I even did an update which worked flawlessly.
Later I decided to test the jun's alpha software for 6.1. I booted it fine and it found the server, I proceeded to update it and then it did not boot any more. No problem since this was expected and we were warned not to do it.
I decided to just do a 6.1 force install.
I was able to do this on a small dell desktop computer, so I was confident.
Since then, neither the new nor the old boot drives even find the server. It's as if the NICs are not being found. The activity lights are blinking. I did a test install of FreeNAS 10beta and it worked flawlessly. So I know the server is OK.
So if you do get yours running, please report back which boot img you are using. I need to figure out how to test the NetExtreme NICs with jun's mod.
BTW, I created 6 RAID0 VDs in the H700 controller so synology could see all the disks and create the RAID.