So I can't passthrough the controller because my hardware doesn't support VT-D, however I've just gone the bare-bone approach, this didn't work in the past because my NIC wasn't supported (Dell 2950), seems to work now in the latest release. This is what happens;
1. Power up, says either moved from another disk station or it has been reset and needs to re-install
2. Re-install, boot, only 12 drives (new install), modify both synoinfo.confg files
3. Reboot, it tries then crashes then restarts again
4. Back to Step 1
At step 2, after i modify synoinfo.conf files, I don't reboot then in ssh go;
1. mdadm -Asf
2. vgchange -ay
3. mount /dev/vg1000/lv /volume1
4. All files there still
5. But the DSM says drives are green - spare
The data volume raid is intact, no matter what i do i can't get DSM to recognize it because the synoinfo.conf files keep resetting and only shows 12 disks.
I can get a 8TB external drive and backup then start again but they cost $420 here and I want to avoid departing that much money unless i really have to.
I'm going to try now to have only 8 drives, install dsm, modify synoinfo.conf, hot plug in the other 7 and see if it recognizes the other disks.
What I really need is a boot image and .pat file that has the synoinfo.conf modified already. I looked into it but was unable to re-pack the zimage kernal file.
I don't know if this makes any sense but appreciate the feedback
Thanks
EDIT:
I hot plugged in the drives then did mdadm --stop /dev/md(x)
mdadm -Asf
vgchange -ay
mount /dev/vg1000/lv /volume1
DSM now sees the volume, doesn't show in file station though, still says crashed. Under disk info it says "System Partition Crashed" I would expect something like this. I know as soon as I reboot its going to revert back to 12 drives.
EDIT EDIT:
If I create new shared folders with the same names, the same data is in there. Example creates "Photos", then all my photos are in there.
When I go "Repair" in storage manager to repair the system partition, it pops up with a blank message and nothing happens.
EDIT EDIT EDIT:
Rebooted, and guess what... Yes back to step 1