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sandisxxx

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  1. No matter what you are going to do, ALWAYS! back up the data. Trust me, you never know what goes wrong..
  2. I have finished the migration with no trouble overall. I have followed the Juno's migration guide (perfect job by the way) any migrated with ease. The only thing i had to set was the IP address. Then i have updated to Update 9 an had to hard reset the first time. But now all is perfect.
  3. Thanks chrisund123, so you took the disks, connected to the gen9, followed the guide for Junos 1.01, Using Synology assistant you did the Migrate? How about setting? VPN server, Shares, FTP and other? Did it remember the settings?
  4. After reading the Juno's upgrade/migration forum topic and comments, I will try to migrate to 6.X in near future. I have edited the grub.cfg file as per the guide, added secondary MAC address. USB flashdrive is prepared by Win32Imager. One question here. I am using 3 SATA drives with the stock SATA/RAID controller, one SATA port is unoccupied yet. Each SATA disk is having it's own Volume configured, no RAID arrays defined. The SATA port for the DVD-DOM is not used(and won't be). Do I have to fiddle with the "append SataPortMap=XX" during the Migration? I don't want to do a fresh install. Please advice. Thanks in advance for advice.
  5. I mean, this is a wonderful guide and I have read also the comments viewtopic.php?f=2&t=22100&hilit=upgrade But I just need someone to cconfirm, that for example the drivers in the loader are just fine with my configuration(Bare metal Gen8 HP with stock SATA controller)
  6. Juns loader, okay, so I create USB drive from it(hope there is an img or iso), that's fine, but how to upgrade the existing data/settings ? I have searched the forum, found something, but I am not sure if the methods are OK with the Gen8 HP. That's why I started this topic, hoping to find someone that did the procedure and is willing to share his experience with me.
  7. And how did you do the upgrade, can you post some link please?
  8. Hello dear community. I can see few guides how to upgrade existing DSM 5.2 to DSM 6. What is the best/proper way to perform the upgrade by not loosing the data please? I'd like to know from someone that has experience with same hardware to avoid surprises. Currently running DSM 5.2-5967 Update 2 bare metal on HP Microserver Gen8 with built in SATA/Raid controller, 3 HDDs connected, each disk is a separate volume with separate shares , booting XPEnoboot from USB flash drive. Thanks for every helpful comment in advance.
  9. Thanks for reply, I have used the latest standard 5967.1 XPEnoboot image with the proper .pat file. I can confirm, the disks are spinning down as expected(which saves a lot of power per year). Unfortunately, I can not check the auto-off feature, because it asks to enable WOL. When I check the checkboxes to enabel WOL on both LANs and click Apply, it just does not apply the changes. So I can not enable this feature, but I can live with that for now. Thanks for your response. This topic can be closed.
  10. I don't really understand what toolchains are, but if I understand this correctly, they have to release the kernel first and then we can hope for some clever devs to make new XPEnoboot image?
  11. First of all, thanks for such detailed answer Technodrone. I will backup all the data(roughly 3TB) and start the bare metal process as you describe. Is there any reason why to change the MAC and s/n? I definetly won't try the DSM6 I really do not miss any features in the 5.2 version. I will use some USB to boot and maybe a 500GB 2,5" 7200RPM drive for the Synology system apps etc. I have modified my Gen8 to fit a SSD drive (in the ODD bay) that currently is dying and have no better use of that 500GB drive. Then I will seat 3 data disk drives to the bays. Please check for me if the disks can spin down when not used. My previous custom built XPEnology was able to do that and that is very handy, because 3 disks make quite some noise and drain quite some power. The auto power off/on feature I have used years ago on my Zyxel NAS and was absolutely perfect(saves power). Again, thanks for reply. Can anyone else comment please, if the HDD spin down feature is supported when using AHCI bare metal ? Peace
  12. Do we? Can you please reffer to a link? It's in the announcement and the title of the thread is DSM 6.0.2 Loader ( was "A new loader for latest DSM") Hope you can find it. Thanks. I will probably use 5.2.X and not fiddle with not-yet-fully tested 6.0.2 Have no idea, if HP Microserver Gen8 drivers are inculded.
  13. HP Microserver Gen8, was running on SSD MS Server 2012 + hyper-V I have decided(after my SSD failed) to rather go for bare metal build. I know that: 1. Have to update firmware to the last 2. Switch to AHCI mode 3. There is a BIOS reset bug My questions: 1. Is there any real way to overcome the BIOS reset or still I have to save the current settings as default? 2. Does XPEnology spin down the disks when in AHCI mode? - I know that SMART should work within XPENology in AHCI mode 3. Does the automatic power off/power on feature work on Gen8 as bare metal? 4. What XPEnoboot version should I use and what Synology pat file to install? - someone has said, that there is already bootloader for the DSM6? 5. currently I have setup Hyper-V with disks in offline mode attached to Xpenology VM as pass thru(using the HP Raid controller in RAID mode, each disk is separate Raid0 array), can I somehow use these disks with no changes, just by attaching them to the Bare metal XPEnology installation without loosing data? I haven't found any real How-To guide how to install XPEnology on Gen8 as bare metal, if you can paste any link, I would be thankful. Thanks all for replies.
  14. Do we? Can you please reffer to a link?
  15. So not easy then. Bugger. I'll have a go, hopefully won't be too tricky. Ta for the quick response. It is not That hard. You create the VM, mount the iso, boot from it and choose install. Then use a web browser to install the DSM(or synology assistant) and you are done. Then you have to make sure it boots from the iso each time by editing the VM config file(you can google for it, I have found it same way )
  16. How did you get on with this? I tried using the video guides at http://cyanlabs.net/tutorials/installin ... -hardware/ for version 6 yesterday but had no luck. Kept getting some weird errors. Hi I ended up with the normal installation. Not using the img file and converting. I had to make sure, that the VM boots from the iso every time, which I achieved by editing the VM config file, but don't remember how I exactly did that So creating the VM standard way, mounting the iso, installing the DSM and making sure it boots from the iso after the DSM installation(else it did not work for me).
  17. Update: I have found, that Windows Explorer in W7 is always trying to connect as anonymous when I try to FTP to my XPEnology. Just after that, it logs on with the credentials I provide. Thanks Microsoft.
  18. So I have found that my Windows 7 machine while trying to connect to FTP with a good password, from some reasons sent a couple of wrong passwords to the DSM. Therefore my IP was blocked, according to my blocklist settings. Very strange why Windows 7 sends wrong passwords even when I put in a good password. Did anybody observe such behavior? I am using Windows Explorer as FTP client in Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 x64. Strange.
  19. Hello community, please help. I can't logon to my XPE via WAN. Forwarding, firewall, everything is and was set properly. It just does not accept any user password. However I can logon normally via LAN (or VPN. FTP is also not allowing any user in. Please help. DSM 5.2-5967 Update2
  20. IMHO it has nothing to do with the NAS, I'd say the laptop has either faulty RAM or other hardware issue, I'd recommend to check the RAM with memtest+ or other software. It's possible that the laptop works just fine in all other applications and operations, but freezes by this particular one. I had few times faulty RAM or Mainboard(capaticors faulty)that caused the computer to freeze in very particular operations like this.
  21. My experience is limited to this type of LSI HBA(! not raid, i want DSM to take care of SHR) controllers: - IBM ServeRAID M1015 SAS/SATA HBA - LSI 9220-8i I actualy run both of them, the IBM M1015 is a rebrand of the LSI 9220-8i controller. You don't want to use a controller that does the raid management for you, you want to leave raid management to DSM.. Make sure the controller is flashed to "it mode" and acts as a simple HBA. I bought mine from a 2nd hand it reseller, cause i didn't wanted to find out, if the rumors about knock-off controllers from china are true. you need a low profile bracet in order to be able to use it in your gen8 Thanks a lot for very useful tips and info! Gonna get one from second hand and try.
  22. Thanks haydibe for the information. Lastly,could you please recommend some raid card? Not necessarily a new one, I could go with some ebay used one.
  23. haydibe, 2 questions: Is the SMART passed in ESXi when using AHCI mode? Can you use the spin-down feature within XPE in ESXi? That's what I am actually missing the most. I am still runing my bare metal XPEnology with a Micro ATX board and Celeron J1900, which is quite low power consuming along with the disk spin down feature. Is it possible to achieve this using Vanilla ESXi and AHCI mode? (an d boot from SD Card or USB) please?
  24. Agreed, thanks for your help. I will probably go back to the ESXi then.
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