peter.b3780

hey, thanks for that....I found out the hard way but have got this machine up and running, however I wish to take your advice and use it as a backup...any advice on which software app to use to copy the data that I want backed up to this machine Thanks Peter

yes that thought occurred to me too....however whether it was just that or a combination it worked ! Peter

and yet another update... so ... an old adage says "go back to basics"...so I did I ... I took out another USB and set it up...I went through checking of all cables and LOL I found one of the Hard drive power cables had been knocked from its plug and was not connected thus not presenting a full raid 5 setup I continued checking then started up and ....It has properly set up and is currently accepting data so thanks to anyone that would have replied...and I will now crawl off to my 'shame" corner thanks again peter.b3780

further info: I have an additional set of hard drives...all new "Seagate Baracuda green - all 2TB - all formatted " ... I swapped with the other hard drives and started again ... during the post all the drives were present yet when the Usb activates the system it shows up on the PC client that there are no hard drives present,,, so I go to "synology assistant" which connects ok and gives the option to install the 'pat' file ... I tried using the 6.1 DSM 'pat' file and I am told that its not compatible with my system and I find that the only pat file it will accept is the 6.2 version (which I had downloaded back in october) the next setting which is ... this makes no sense but I went ahead with it and now have the following error message which popped up after applying network settings and moved on to "formatting system partition" ... Please wait and do not turn off the power during this procedure (Then up pops the error message) Server error code 38 If you are performing this procedure through a wireless network connection please switch to Applying System Settings: It takes about 10 minutes or longer depending on the size of your hard drives . ethernet cable connection for both your disk station and PC Client and try again (I am already connected via cat 5 cable!!) It goes on to say; An error occurred during installation. The telnet service of the disk station is turned on for error determination please configure your router to forward port 23 to disk station and contact sinology online support … Needless to say I havnt done that, however the procedure appears to have stalled at this point … (No traffic thru the switch) so I am stuck again Peter.b3780

History so far I built and had running for five years an expenology system when I had a double hard drive failure...losing all my data in the process.( I did however still have the hard drives with data that I put on the server 5 years ago....So in reality I have only lost the last 5 years....[there is a lesson here somewhere]).. I then bought another matching two drives and tried to set it up again....and then the motherboard curled up her toes and died....so....long story made short ... I have a replacement older but functioning i7 computer...I set up the four drives from the crashed machine into this newer one... and have also rebuilt the USB for the new machine....it was found straight away and told me it would try to repair the setup..at the end of this repair it now tells me that no hard discs have been found so... is there a way to fix this Or would it be best to reformat those hard drives and reload the old data back onto the system Peter.b3780

progress so far : Changed Usbs so now no longer an issue of same PID/VID I isolated the Asus machine and re did the whole process...I now have this one operating ok The other machine i7 gigabyte one is however most perplexing it is only intermittently coming on I have tried going back to the beginning and it still wont start...however I have now noticed that there is no activity on the network (that is the lights dont flash at either end of the cable). Trouble checking; I find that when i start the machine on an ubuntu USB the lights flash ok...Hmmmmmm! I would like to get it going so at least I could transfer the data to the other machine because then I could reformate all the drives (four on raid 5) and start all over I seem to remember that this old machine was giving trouble when it was being used as my desktop so maybe the motherboard is faulty Anyway thats my dilemma...(who said computing is easy??) Anbody?????? peter.b

I have been struggling for a few days to get an old i3 computer that I loaded up with 6.2...it worked well and seemed to be good...However when i went to the machine today and couldnt get on via the remote on my windows desktop I re-started the xpenology machine and when it eventually started I found that most f the 'packages had stopped and refused to re start....how should I deal with it...Im thinking thjat perhaps I should try to reset it to 6.1. any ideas would be appreciated Original thread : "installing expenology on baremetal creation" peter.b

I changed the battery and its now locked in! ... yay. A new problem has developed overnight...both servers went offline the one that I was working on yesterday re appeared with a new ip address (even though a static address had been setup the other machine has disappeared altogether ... searching using arp -a doesn't list it and I cant find it using find.synology.com and thats end of my knowledge...one thing I looked at was the PID/VID on each of the USBs and they are both the same?????

wow...its working...the only issue I have is in the bios....It wont keep the changes that I make.and revert6s every time its switched off, however i can cope with this manually ... its the least of the problems...big thing is that its working...thank you so much...you're the best thanks again Peter

OK thanks...Here we go!

Hi to billat29 I have had some progression... so far I have two machines ....one I have had for 5 years the other was a newer computer withi7 capabilities after losing all my data on the ol machine (ASUS H8IM-E with a celeron cpu) ...I lost all after almost simutaneously two Hdd Failures) ... I had the original data that I started with in 2015 on a couple of old Hdds ... so I purchased a couple of new drives and set up on the i7 machine....originally starting up synology on the old usb drive...then set up all I had of the old data....and all this works ok... then I started rebuilding the old asus machine...I purchased 4 new 2TB drives and installed them .. I tried (several times -starting again each time)error messages I kept getting were saying that the disk could not be read....arggh.. I then experimented by putting the drive into the i7 machine... and... it worked ....I followed the steps and upgraded to 6.2 -23739 and it is working great...doesnt seem to be any issues. that leaves me with the original machine.... currently loaded with 5.2.5644. It starts up and allows me into the remote access on my desktop but has stalled at the part where I try to put a 'volume' in place. :error message read; Connection failed. Please check your network system>...Ive tried a couple of different things like selecting quick setup versus custom.... no difference ... It still fails

Ps I am on a pension and the budget is critical

It seems that I have stumbled on the answer....I put the usb (the one that I had set up for 6.2)in the other machine and it has worked so...I think that the trouble has been in the old machine which ran on 5.2 and has issues with hardware ( old celeron) I am thinking that upgrading the motherboard and CPU will fix it what are your thoughts, do you have any recommendations Peter

I am trying to setup a home server with backup. so far I have created one server using a USB setup with 5.2 from a set-up that my son setup for me back in 2015 and it runs ok ...I have now created a second server with four new hard-drives and am trying to create a USB for that one... now this what I have done so far: 1.create a usb with 6.1....nothing happened when I tried it in the machine 2.recreated it three further times with no result 3.created a USB with 6.2 ... this time giving an error message: 'this is not a bootable disk. please insert a bootable floppy, press any key to start again' During all these tries i have tried using the usb from the 5.2 machine and it works ok...giving me a start onto the network though can not be seen on the network..( I havnt tried to overcome this...I suspect its because there is no DSM yet) ... the machine will also start on a ubuntu USB So , where to next? peterb3780

I currently have a similar problem. firstly I am a Newb in all this My son setup the original EXPenology site for me and is currently unavailable to help. I am computer literate and can follow directions... here is my dilemma! something I have done has caused my site to become unavailable on my network...( it was probably me...however I dont know what caused the problem nor do I know how to fix it!) anyway... I found that when booting up fromUSB it would stall at this: Excution Error ============Date============ Sat June 11 14:44:55 UTC 2016 =========================== DiskStation Login: (Execution is mis-spelt.) I created a new USB Boot using the latest 5.2-5645.5 image, and I picked up on the forum how to apply Synology Helper and got the following message: We've detected that the hard drives of your current DS3615xs had been moved from a previous DS3615xs, and installing a newer DSM is required before continuing. Device Info: Model DS3615xs IP Address: 10.1.1.25 Serial Number: C8KWN00266 Mac Address: 00:11:32:16:24:26 Status: Update required Firmware version: 5.2-5644 DSM version 6.0-7393 I can see that there is something wrong here but I need help on how to fix it Thanks Peter