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Hi, Just wanted to say thanks for this brilliant Automated loader. I have no Linux skills so was unsure of how to use TCRP but with your loader it was a breeze. My system is a Terramaster F5-221 which was running 6.2 based on a DS918+ from using Jun's loader, it probably didn't need an update but I kept getting prompts from Synology so I thought it was time but saw the process as daunting. Anyway I found your automated loader and gave it a go and hey presto! from the automation I am now on a DS920+ running DSM 7.1.1. So Thanks again! CeeBs

Dann nimm Host direct. Ich werde dir jetzt nicht alle Funktion von Workstation erklären, da würde die Beschreibungen lesen und verstehen auch eine große Hilfe sein.

Broadcom nic's ext driver seems to use tg3, but there was a recent modification and there was a user who complained that it did not work. And i225 should be added as igc ext driver, but there is no ext driver yet. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Спасибо Olegin, hand ! Всё получилось. С темой "Подлежит восстановлению" - это я сам накосячил: когда впервые вручную редактировал конфиг забыл сохранить с валидными SN/MAC. Итого порядок в моём случае (DS918+ переход с TCRP DSM 7.1-42661 Update 3 на ARPL DSM 7.1.1-42962 Update 1, CPU Pentium Gold G5400) был такой (после пары неудачных попыток прогнал "начисто"): записал образ загрузчика на флешку (самый новый релиз скачал v0.5-alpha1 - https://github.com/fbelavenuto/arpl/releases) загрузился с флешки на хрени, выполнил пункты меню: Choose a model - указал пока DS920+, т.к. у меня выбор DS918+ не был доступен Choose a Build Number - 42661 (тот, что был у меня уже установлен под TCRP) Choose a serial number - указал свой валидный, на предупреждение, что он неверный (т.к. от 918+) ответил, что сохранить именно таким Edit user config file manually - в первых же строках поменял модель на DS918+, проверил SN, указал валидный MAC (там где-то глубоко в меню это тоже можно сделать, но мне было проще здесь, раз уж зашёл), сохранил изменения в файл Build the loader - в процессе сборки убедился, что выполняется для правильной модели (918+) Boot the loader - пункт появляется в меню после успешного выполнения предыдущего, собственно - запуск DSM Дождался запуска DSM, зашёл в веб-интерфейс, Панель управления\ Обновление и восстановление\ Обновление DSM - мне уже предложило обновить до 7.1.1, выполнил обновление прямо отсюда, прошла перезагрузка После перезагрузки обновил пару пакетов (в т.ч. AME - уточню, у меня используются валидные SN/MAC и есть подключение к учётной записи Synology) и возрадовался полностью рабочей версии DSM 7.1.1-42962 Update 1

As part of a long project to convert a bare-metal redpill DS3615xs install on an HP Gen8 Microserver to be virtualised in ESXi as a DS3622xs+ on the same hardware (without dataloss and/or rebuilding) with TCRP (covered in detail here) I recently bought and installed a used HP P222 HBA. At a high level: backed everything up checked the backup replaced the redpill USB stick with a TCRP one configured for the same DSM version slowly worked through updating to the latest DSM version (7.0.1-42661-4 at the time) updated the backup installed ESXi on the internal SD card, with a 60GB SSD on the ODD SATA port to use as a datastore created a new VM with the SATA HDDs on the internal B120i adapter (already in AHCI mode) in RDM mode the above worked, but disk throughput wasn't great installed the P222 card switched it to HBA mode in ESXi and configured it as a passthrough PCI device moved the SATA cable for the internal drive cage to the P222 card connected a new 1x4 SATA cable to the B120i port and reconnected the 60GB SSD to port 1 (which is 6Gb/s, as opposed to 3Gb/s on the ODD port) reconfigured the VM, removing the RDM disks and adding the P222 card as a passthrough device added the hpsa driver to TCRP and tweaked the SataPortMap and DiskIdxMap settings to see the drives properly (not entirely successfully, but good enough) Massive thanks to @Orphée @pocopico @scoobdriver @flyride and @Peter Suh for guiding me through the above! I thought I'd got a good deal on it for £9 as it came without a cache card or back up battery, but didn't think I'd need these. It turns out the card's firmware permanently disables itself if no cache module is installed. So I had to buy a 512MB cache card and battery for £15 to get it working. The easiest way to access the settings when you're on HP hardware's to be running the HP custom ESXi image that includes the management tools. You can also upgrade the firmware easily from the ESXi command line tools. It's a lot easier, and quicker, than using the HP Intelligent Provisioning tool imho. So, from the ESXi command line I was able to switch it from RAID mode to HBA mode. https://www.hpe.com/us/en/servers/hpe-esxi.html You may find these links useful for similar tasks: https://kallesplayground.wordpress.com/useful-stuff/hp-smart-array-cli-commands-under-esxi/ https://wiki.polaire.nl/doku.php?id=hp_p222_configuration#hp_p222_configuration https://forums.unraid.net/topic/91922-convert-hp-smart-array-controller-to-hba-mode/ One thing I noted from those pages is that the (now installed) cache can be split between read and write caches, but I couldn't get the cache to work in HBA mode. I suspect it only works when the card is in RAID mode and has some volumes configured to cache accesses for. It's annoying that I had to buy the cache module to get the card working, but can't actually use it in this configuration 😆 Lastly, *damn* this card runs hot! The iLO reckons it's at 85degC, way hotter than anything else in the system. This means the fans are now running at 30% and noticeably louder than they were before. The server sits in the AV cupboard in our lounge and is now too loud to stay there. Fortunately, the whole point of this project was to enable moving the server into a datacenter at work, so I don't care how much noise it makes there

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Thank you ryancc for your instruction, I can confirm that is working