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Hi, would you mind adding *why* one needs to do this? An i cant the file on the nas either - whats the path to the file ? Thx

Kannst es noch mit plop probieren... Oder ggf nen Hypervisor auf der Kiste laufen lassen ... Dann entweder RDM oder Vt-D passthrough je nachdem was er kann und Du auch;)

Well basically you should be able to install the driver as on any other linux system - find a compatible one and install it and then put it in loader files;)

Hi, are the LSI sas drivers included in this latest beta? I still dont see my drives attached to an 1068e chip (IBM BR10i) - or only the 2008's supported atm? And i dont see anything that looks like a megaraid driver in the list;) Or did i do sth wrong? - I reuploaded the vmdk (to a running system) and copied all modules to the modules dir (cp -rf o/c)... Thx p.s. Found "Built-in mp2sas and megaraid_sas drivers (instead of modules)" in a changelog ... so thats why there are no modules; what LSI chips do these support?

Hm was not able to pass the USB device properly ? The only device i was able to pass on was my eUSB drive - which will work for me probably but not be a viable solution for everyone;) So i went with the IDE trick for now as its easier to play around that way...

Yep that method works good - thanks a lot

Hm have you simply booted from the other device or did you actually add an usb drive ? Will test the following tonight - am away all day: Connect USB device to VMWare Use plop to boot from USB stick Remove USB Stick as in manual for non ESX environment! (maybe it already has written something on it which is gone when copying over again) Install .pat file Plug USB device back in

Yes i saw that comment in the other thread - unfortunately for some reason i was not able to add the disk as ide disk? Anyhow, i'll try to use plop to boot from usb - that should circumvent the issue (i hope)

I have the same issue... (with the updated 4.2 version 1.2 (DS3612xs_3211-repack-trantor-v1.2)) The problem seems to be that the initial vmdk is treated as a regular disk and is overwritten in the installation. Copying the vmdk over again fixes the boot error 22 but then Synology finds a disk without proper configuration and wants to overwrite it again (installation loop). I am running on ESXi5.5 - i tried with esxi_synoboot_3202 (from the dummy guide) before - that worked ok, so its not ESX 5.5 - but that one didnt detect the SAS HBA i am pasing on - this one actually didnt either (LSI 1068e, my 2008 seems to be broken), but thats another problem;)

SSD Caching as it is currently implemented with Synology is simply a read cache - often used data is copied to the ssd so it can be delivered faster. Other systems (ZFS) can use SSDs for read and write caching... so i still hope the Synology will adjust one day;)

55 MB/s ist ja nicht mal so schlecht Bei meiner alten Diskstation komme ich mit Raid5 (5drives) nicht über 30/40 MB;) Aber Spass beiseite, teste mal mit dd was die Platte theoretisch liefern könnte - das ist zwar natürlich weit von der Realität entfernt aber gibt mal eine Info. Dabei schauen was die CPU sagt ... Und alternativ wenn noch nicht zuviele Daten drauf sind mal von Raid 1 auf 0 ändern um zu testen was wirklich geht...

Ah jo, alte Computer/Server haben manchmal Probleme mit USB boot, das stimmt wohl... Das liegt dann aber nicht an Treibern sondern an der Hardware - sonst würde es ja nicht mit ner anderen Kiste gehen;) Und eigentlich solltest Du das BootImage ohne Probleme auf eine CD bekommen - solange man daran nichts ändern muss hinterher könnte das gehen (weil ja wohl immer vom Stick/der CD gebottet wird wie ich das bisher verstehe).

I was under the impression that had been added with 4.3? But i didnt verify it;)

After installation or with the boot image?

Have you taken a look at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acpid ? That might help:)

Hey guys, some basic questions ... Did i understand it correctly the Synology software (and thus XPE) (on X86) is basically a regular linux distro based on Debian(?) with some stuff added on top? So is there a mapping to wich (core) functionality is implemented by which linux part? Eg i assume the Raid functionality is done by md(?) - then how is the synolog hybrid raid done? patched version or separate tool? How's the rest mapped to linux soft? regular software with fancy web based gui? And given thats true - would i be able to use other file systems with synology? btrfs probably comes to mind first, but lessfs would be an option too? And could i use btier on top of that? - transparent to the actual web frontend i mean - so i could use the gui and instead of a simple software raid 5/6 i'd have anice btier based storage system? I assume it would mean a lot of fiddleing but as long as its actually based on a regular distro it should be manageable ( I'm not afraid of compiling a kernel or a couple of packages) Thx, Thomas

Und auch schon die verschiedenen USB ports durch? Den gleichen Fehler hatte einer im englischen Forum auch mal... Alternativ mal nach dem String googlen - wenn XPE ein Basis Linux ist sollte es da noch mehr Ideen geben;)

Just fyi - i cancelled my order due to delivery delay and went with an E3 instead. Another reason was the single PCIe slot that might cause issues (or imbue additional costs to get a hba with lot of ports). I hope that the E3 will not use too much power :/

Und was passiert wenn Du erstmal ohne die Platten bootest? Geht das? Und muss man für XPE mit AHCI arbeiten?

(Just speculating here) Hm, but in our case there is a dedicated OS disk (USB drive)... The question is then whether the synology (raid?) stuff being copied to all drives can be run on an encrypted disk; If not then volume/folder encryption would likely be the only way - or a self encrypting disk maybe which should be oblivious to whats going on on a higher level...

Ohne viel Ahnung zu habe - welche Devices sind denn angeschlossen ausser dem USB Stick?

Without having used XPE yet i would say - look at the Synology Performance charts (http://www.synology.com/products/performance.php?lang=enu) The xs class reaches around Gigabit speed with AES 256 and utilizes an Intel Core i3-2100 ... without AES New Instructions (as per ark.intel.com). I hope to achieve the same with the new Avoton (Atom); ask me again in a week;) What i wonder is - is there an official way to do full disk encryption? I was only able to find folder based encryption...

Hey guys, I am all new to XPEnology so forgive me if something has been explained already (while i did read a lot of threads there is not *the* beginners thread yet (or i didnt find it)). So i am looking to replace my aging DS-508 and looked at quite a lot of options -Build a ZFS based server with an i3 (ECC) or E3-1200v3 (for VT-D) or E5-1600 (for RDIMMS, >32GB) (Doable but likely high power req and definitely overkill) -Buy a new DS-1813+ (Good, but i am not willing to shell out 800+bucks for *that* old hardware) -Use XPEnology withe something between old low power Atom and (relatively) high Power E3-1200v3 -> Enter Avoton/Rangely. So with the recent availability of the new Atoms i suppose that would be a good compromise - ServertheHome showed max power usage (load) at 30ish Watts (idle usage for an E3 solution) (+ drives o/c) so i am still at the same level as an 1813+ for way better performance. So the question is - is Avoton (or Rangeley) already supported by XPenology?. As the only available board atm is the supermicro one i would use that (http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Atom/X10/A1SRi-2758F.cfm, this is the Rangeley variant which is Avoton+ some extra stuff for network devices and costs about the same here. So will this work out of the box ? Or am I looking at being a Guinea Pig;) (no dont have it ordered yet:p) I assuem there needs to be the following: Basic Chipset support (?) SATA Drivers (?) Network (Marvell Alaska 88E1543) Now that particular boards has an additional feature - "1x SATA DOM power connector" I read in some thread that its currently not possible to install DSM on a local disk since they all get initialized with the raid layout and the DOM which where on Synology devices was missing - could this be a solution to this problem ? There are different sized DOM's available on Ebay so given driver support it should be easy to use it ... Edit: This is only a power connector And primary difference Avoton -> Rangely: Intel QuickAssist Technology -> Encryption support - does anyone know whether that is usefull at all? I assume that AES-NI will be possible to run providing better performance for encrypted folders (which is horribly slow apparently even on those high end Syn' stations)? If all else fails i probably could run it with ESX but with missing VT-D to pass on a SAS controller i guess i would be running it natively if its supported;) Thanks, Thomas