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All links below are provided for noobs and because I am a nice guy, but simply going to https://archive.synology.com/download/DSM/ or https://www.synology.com/en-global/support/download and then clicking the desired subsequent links will yield everything I am linking below. Seek and you shall find. Also keep in mind that I am not updating this post very often so you are better of learning how all this works. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DSM PAT files can be found here (Major updates): DSM 7.2.1U1 https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM/7.2.1-69057-1-NanoPacked Read this to know which platform to select DSM 7.2U1 https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM/7.2-64570-1-NanoPacked Read this to know which platform to select DSM 7.1.1U1: https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM/7.1.1-42962-1-NanoPacked Read this to know which platform to select DSM 7.1U1: https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM/7.1-42661-1-NanoPacked Read this to know which platform to select DSM 6.0.2: https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM/6.0.2-8451 Chose .pat file DS3615xs DSM 6.1: https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM/6.1-15047 Chose .pat file for DS3615xs or DS3617xs or DS916+ accordingly DSM 6.1.1: https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM/6.1.1-15101 Chose .pat file for DS3615xs or DS3617xs or DS916+ accordingly DSM 6.1.2: https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM/6.1.2-15132 Chose .pat file for DS3615xs or DS3617xs or DS916+ accordingly DSM 6.1.3: https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM/6.1.3-15152 Chose .pat file for DS3615xs or DS3617xs or DS916+ accordingly DSM 6.1.4: https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM/6.1.4-15217 Chose .pat file for DS3615xs or DS3617xs or DS916+ accordingly DSM 6.1.5: https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM/6.1.5-15254 Chose .pat file for DS3615xs or DS3617xs or DS916+ accordingly DSM6.1.6: https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM/6.1.6-15266 Chose .pat file for DS3615xs or DS3617xs or DS916+ accordingly DSM6.1.7: https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM/6.1.7-15284 Chose .pat file for DS3615xs or DS3617xs or DS916+ accordingly DSM6.2: https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM/6.2-23739 Chose .pat file for DS3615xs or DS3617xs or DS918+ accordingly DSM6.2.1: https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM/6.2.1-23824 Chose .pat file for DS3615xs or DS3617xs or DS918+ accordingly DSM6.2.2: https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM/6.2.2-24922 Chose .pat file for DS3615xs or DS3617xs or DS918+ accordingly DSM6.2.3: https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM/6.2.3-25426 Chose .pat file for DS3615xs or DS3617xs or DS918+ accordingly DSM6.2.4: https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM/6.2.4-25556 Chose .pat file for DS3615xs or DS3617xs or DS918+ accordingly Critical Updates for all DSM versions can be found here: http://download.synology.com/download/DSM/criticalupdate/update_pack/ or https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM

Had great difficulties with getting the hang of the process, but I persevered, and am thankful to the helpful peeps on this forum. Originally wanted 6.3 but the initial attempts were unsuccessful with the infamous ”Failed to install the file. The file is probably corrupted. (13)" Once I realised that this could be a number of reasons, I double-double checked my boot file (it was correct) tried other USB sticks, and eventually worked out that I had simply chosen the wrong pat file. (There are lots to choose from & a large % of the ones I tried clearly just don't work). After a lot of testing with 3615 & 1.04b I gave up & found a recipe for 1.02b and 6.1x - Outcome of the installation/update: SUCCESSFUL - DSM version : DSM 6.1.3-15152 - Loader version and model: JUN'S LOADER v1.02b - DS3615xs - Installation type: BAREMETAL - HP Microserver GEN 7 N40L 8GB ram [note that this is version 6.1.3 cos all the 6.1.7 versions in the recipe book failed for me - ymmv]. [note 2 - only 4 of the 5 drives were visible to DSM, (not so for Ubuntu or Unraid), so I updated the BIOS to the adjusted version of 041 with Southbridge options to disable IDE mode and force AHCI mode for disk 5 & then all were visible.] That's a great start & a beautiful use for my spare N40L, so thanks to all. However - (there's always one of those) - I needed to test a particular feature, "deactivate a HDD from a Raid-1 storage pool" - which isn't in 6.1.3 (cue someone pointing and saying "Ha Ha"). Pure comedy gold. No matter, I now know more than I did before & so it's worth a retry. LOTS more reading, and eventually compiled a bunch of notes, 1.03b bootloader, a new USB stick, and after half a dozen failed attempts, used the LATEST version - bingo! - Outcome of the installation/update: SUCCESSFUL - DSM version : DSM 6.3-25426 (that's currently the LATEST release, and some suggest the LAST release of 6.x) - Loader version and model: JUN'S LOADER v1.03b - DS3617xs - Installation type: BAREMETAL - HP Microserver GEN 7 N40L 8GB ram No sign of any dreaded hidden directories in the root which needed deleting, data migrated fine, all good. Looks just like my pair of DS412+ units - nice one. Thanks to ALL who helped by posting their suggestions to others in the past & those who posted their recipes. TTFN I think I might do the same to the 2 other HP gen7 microservers I have under the stairs!

I have only just joined the forum, so I didn't get any warnings about 6.3-25426 being unreliable! I suspect this post may be deleted as a result. ;-( Please read the WARNING entry from Polanskiman before following my recipe. I appear to have got away with it so far, but it's a scratch unit, no really important data, I don't care if it dies unexpectedly while scrubbing everything! I'm always being told off for telling people to back up their data, so I'm prepared to be told off here too. Backup your data!!!! I used to support very large 19" winchester disks as a vendor techie, (yes it was a long time ago) and got very sad every time a customer told me theirs had died, and could we scrape the data off, because their last backup was 6 months ago. Good luck with yours.

lot of links in the forum to dsm versions and udpates might not work from now on synology replaced the old system and also change the structure slightly old https://archive.synology.com/download/DSM/release/ new https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM also the updates are now in the same area as the realeases

I can tell you how to turn them off. You should be able to find twelve 'locate' files under /sys/class/enclosure/*/*. You might have to do some directory traversal before you can find them. Once you do, change the content of each of the locate file from "1" to "0" and save.