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Trantor, I've gotten the Marvell cards to work on almost all other OS, such as Ubuntu, FreeNAS, unRAID, Windows Server. This is definitely a Syno specific issue. Do you think it's possible to build with a generic sata_mv instead of synology's patched version? Thanks.

I'm using a whitebox server I just found a weird problem, i attached 8 drives to my controller, but synology only see 6 drives, is this a common problem? Frank, I had the similar problem before. See my fix below. viewtopic.php?f=2&t=937&start=60#p5034 Essentially, you need to modify /etc.defaults/synoinfo and play around with "internalportcfg" parameter. internalportcfg is a hexadecimal bitmask. 0xf = 0b1111 ( 4 drives ) 0xff = 0b11111111 ( 8 drives) 0xfff = 0b111111111111 ( 12 drives ) What I would do is increase the internalportcfg to something big like 0xffff (16 drives) and modify usbportcfg and esataportcfg so they aren't colliding with it. If this works, then you can tweak it to your exact configuration. Hope this helps.

As an workaround to my Marvell problem, I can boot if i append grub's kernel line with libata.force=pio4 However, this yields terrible performance. This seems rather bizarre since this card is suppose to support SATA2. Trantor, any ideas?

Trantor. I got my new server. NVidia NIC and SATA works with this build. However the Marvell SATA cards do not. Whenever I have the Marvell SATA cards installed, the boot-up process would not complete. I would get this error continuously during bootup Screen Shot 2013-08-15 at 9.08.00 PM.png[/attachment]

Trantor, I just ordered a 24bay Supermicro system from eBay. http://www.ebay.com/itm/171078773991?ss ... 1497.l2649 http://www.supermicro.com/aplus/motherb ... 8dme-2.cfm The Supermicro H8DME-2 motherboard in this system contains the following. - nVidia MCP55 Pro SATA2 3.0Gbps Controller - nVidia MCP55 Pro Chipset Dual-port LAN / Ethernet Controller Additionally, it also comes with 3x Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 SATA cards (Marvell Hercules-2 Rev. C0 SATA host controller) http://www.supermicro.com/products/acce ... t2-mv8.cfm 1) Does the current release contain the SATA and Ethernet drivers for the nVidia MCP55Pro? 2) Does it contain the driver to support Marvell Hercules host controller? Thanks. I'll be testing it out once I get the hardware. I'm just curious about the compatibility prior to receive the hardware.

Excellent news Trantor. I can't wait for the 4.2 release. The current v1.3a + modified zImage + mpt2sas.ko works for my hardware using LSI card, but performance is quite bad. 4.2 will surely fix the problem. I'll be happy to it out once your release is available. Keep up the awesome work. On a side note, it would be awesome if you could write up the instruction how your workflow to build 4.2, so others like myself can tweak it and offer better support for you. Thanks.

I see 4.2 Toolchain in here http://sourceforge.net/projects/dsgpl/files/ What's all needed? I'm interested in building my own as well.

Trantor, so everything works, except DSM4.1 is considerably slower than DSM4.2 when transferring files using AFP. Any chance you might release a DSM 4.2 build? Thanks.

Okay, I guess I fixed this problem by modifying /etc.defaults/synoinfo. changed internalportcfg="0xfff" to internalportcfg="0xfffff" This change in mask gave me more internal ports. changed esataportcfg="0xff0000" to esataportcfg="0x00000" This change in mask because I don't have any eSATA ports. I was also able to make the module load on boot up by adding "mpt2sas" to KERNEL_MODULES in /etc/rc. Is this the correct way to do it?

However, I discovered a new issue. Everytime I do "insmod /lib/modules/mpt2sas.ko", I would get some show up as Disks and some show up as eSATA with 0 GB. This changes everytime I restart and do the insmod.

Trantor. Awesome work. Here's what I've noticed. the new zImage alone doesn't see the LSI drives for initital setup. After installation with onboard SATA drives and insmod /lib/modules/mpt2sas.ko, I'm able to see all 12 drives. Is there an more automated way for the system to automatically load the driver upon bootup? Thanks.

Using Ubuntu Desktop 13.04 x64 Live CD, the LSI card is detected and all drives are showing.

Sure. Which version of Ubuntu LiveCD?

I have a setup with a total of 12 drives. 8 drives on the LSI 9211-8i and 4 drives on motherboard. With only the 8 drives on LSI connected, the initial setup doesn't even see any drives. With only the 4 mobo SATA drives connected, I have no problem installing v1.3a and running just fine. However, when I have all 12 drives connected. It would boot half way and just shutdown. I think this is similar to a problem another member posted. Any chance LSI 9211-8i will be supported soon? Thanks for everything so far.