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that it’s showing i3 CPU with 2 Cores and I have i5 with 4 cores
Known issue.. I'm sure your system really sees i5 and 4 cores..
You can check with SSH - look for the commands in this thread!
Good to know! At this point the only thing left that is still unclear with my setup is why would RAID 10 show disks 1, 2, 3, and 5 occupied, skipping disk 4? I only have 4 sata ports.
Also, what are the chances that future updates could make this setup unusable again and is QuickConnect with non-synology devices a good idea?
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I’ve finally managed to free up the remaining hard drives from the old 5.2 box and properly setup RAID 10 on this one.
Everything is still working even after multiple restarts, namely:
- BTRFS as RAID-10
- Packages install
- DSM Updates
- QuickConnect
- Recognizes my APC UPS
- USB 3.0 working
A few people have mentioned that they were getting improper shutdown messages but luckily I am not seeing that on my end.
Just to summarize the steps, here is what I did:
- Got the image from Setsunakawa (Big thanks again!)
- Mounted the image with Passmark OSFMount and edited grub\grub.cfg file by changing vid, pid, serial, mac, and adding rmmod=ata_piix (I didn’t have to add SataPortMap= )
- Wrote the edited image to USB stick using Win32 Disk Imager
- In the BIOS I left AHCI and serial port enabled and everything else as default
- Once I booted the box from USB and it got to the screen telling me there are no suitable video devices, I used Synology Assistant from another computer to find it and right-clicked on the device and selected “Install”
- Downloaded the latest PAT file for DS3615xs from Synology and pointed the installer to it
- Accepted all default settings and even setup QuickConnect
- After installation was complete, I updated DSM to the latest version and installed couple of packages
- Then I built RAID 10 and 1 volume using BRTFS
The only thing that I have noticed out of ordinary so far is that it’s showing i3 CPU with 2 Cores and I have i5 with 4 cores. Do you think this could affect the performance? Also, for the RAID it shows disk 1, 2, 3, 5 are occupied. Not sure why it would skip disk 4? I only have 4 sata ports.
Below are my specs:
- Intel Core i5 3570S 3.1 GHz
- 8GB RAM DDR3 SDRAM - non-ECC 1600 MHz PC3-12800 unbuffered
- HP OEM motherboard with Intel Q77 Express (Ivy Bridge)
- IDE Controller: Standard SATA AHCI Controller
- Network Adapter: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection
- Four 4TB NAS HDD SATA III w/ 64MB Cache
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Looks like there was one more admin account that was still active and I was able to backup the important folders. Thanks.
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I can't believe it, finally got it installed! I was even able to update to the latest version and setup QuickConnect.
I didn't have to add SataPortMap= but only changed pid, vid, mac, and serial and also included rmmod=ata_piix in grub.cfg
In the BIOS I left serial port enabled and sata set to AHCI.
The only problem now is that I can't setup volumes yet since I need to free up 2 drives from an old DSM 5.2 box which was off for a while but it tells me the admin account is disabled. Sorry for being off topic (just created another thread about this) but does anyone have any tricks to enable admin account or could I just move those two disks to this new DSM 6 box without losing data?
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My old 5.2-5644 box was off for a while and I just tried to boot it up to copy some files and it's giving me the following error when trying to login with my one and only admin account:
Your account has been disabled. Please contact the administrator
I have another limited user account that I can still access but there are few crucial folders that are not visible under this profile.
What could be the reason the admin account got disabled? Is there anyway to enable it from the actual box using the root account? If I move the disks to a working DSM 6 box, will the data be accessible from there?
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@FiberInternetUser: Very good tips. Thanks! Have you also tried BRTFS? Are all standard packages working and after restarting the drives don't unmount? Did you also change VID, PID, serial #, and MAC address?
Yes, I changed the VID, PID, Serial #, and Mac Address. In testing, I did setup one drive as BRFTS and later when I did a reboot the volume did not unmount. I installed Video Station and Photo Station. There were no errors when installing and after a reboot. Quick Connect does pop up the dialog box to let you login. I don't have an account so I didn't try to login. More testing to do. So far, so good. Also, I installed -8451 update 1 without errors.
Thanks to setsunakawa for the Legacy Boot Loader.
This is looking very promising. Keeping my fingers crossed. I will be trying this shortly. How about adding rmmod=ata_piix command?
Also, if I use correctly matching MAC and serial, the MAC doesn't have to match to my actual NIC's mac?
@Setsunakawa: so once I boot from usb and see "Welcome to GRUB", I should ssh to it to run the command? As you see I am pretty new to this field
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@FiberInternetUser: Very good tips. Thanks! Have you also tried BRTFS? Are all standard packages working and after restarting the drives don't unmount? Did you also change VID, PID, serial #, and MAC address?
@Setsunakawa: Can I get this output for you without having the DSM installed yet? My box has serial.
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Ok.. I've been tinkering around a bit and noticed that the drives with errors on them are the ones that didn't have anything plugged into them.. Odd.
I removed a drive, then got error (1,2,5,6)
If I move my 2x 3TB disks to ports 1 and 2, the error was (3,4,5,6).
I tried changing various BIOS settings - but couldn't find a way to disable them individually.
So.. I filled ALL my SATA ports with spare disks - and SUCCESS!!
I was able to get an install prompt at the NAS URL!
I still got errors when installing the PAT (6.0.2 v8451) though - "Failed to install the file. The file is probably corrupted"
So.. I plugged my USB stick into a Windows machine to get the PID and VID (have a look in device manager), edited the Grub.cfg file (changing the PID and VID values) and..............
I was able to move forward.
Unfortunately, after what looked like a successful install of 6.0.2 v8451 as 'Migrate' install. It did not work after a reboot (disks moved from previous system).
A clean install does not seem to work either, after it reboots. It says disks were moved from previous system.
A step forward though!
Is there any way we can get it to discount certain SATA ports - or do we simply need to ensure all ports are filled?
#H
As per Jun's initial post, did you setup at least 2 partitions on the usb stick:
"and to make installer happy, usb drive seem should have at least 2 partitions, one for boot, and one for recovery I guess."
I havent done that part myself. I use Win32 Disk Imager and I dont think it can write to individual partition?
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kuma16830 said:I got the following error as well, with my Asus J1900I-C mobo.QuoteWe've detected errors on the hard drives (2), and the SATA ports have also been disabled.
Please shut down your DS3615xs to replace or remove the hard drives and try again.
Then I use Synology Assistant to install DSM directly, I got the error as the attached picture.
Hmm, Synology Assistant won't even find mine. After switching from AHCI to IDE in the BIOS, find.synology.com tells me that there are no hard drives installed at all. For AHCI, do we need hardware specific drivers in the boot image?
Edit: now Synology Assistant is picking up the device but when I attempt to install the pat file I get the same error as pictured above. This is with AHCI.
When I switch to IDE, I get the following error:
Below are my main specs:
Chipset: Intel Q77 Express (Ivy Bridge)
IDE Controller: Standard SATA AHCI Controller
Network Adapter: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection
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@Jun : I've tried bare metal using https://mega.nz/#!Z4UzWZxZ!hu9SZXpzJBTa ... -Em9E3JXWI from a USB boot stick and it just sits at "Welcome to GRUB"
Synology Assistant is not seeing it as well. Any ideas?
there is nothing more to see - just wait a minute or two and if your network driver is present
you will see it through find.synology or in your routing table.
this line confused me too until i saw the nic was reseted after a few seconds
find.synology.com is detecting the device but now giving me the following error:
We've detected errors on the hard drives (3, 4, 5, 6), and the SATA ports have also been disabled.
Please shut down your DS3615xs to replace or remove the hard drives and try again.
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@Jun : I've tried bare metal using https://mega.nz/#!Z4UzWZxZ!hu9SZXpzJBTa ... -Em9E3JXWI from a USB boot stick and it just sits at "Welcome to GRUB"
Synology Assistant is not seeing it as well. find.synology.com sees it as DS3615xs but when I press connect it just says "Loading".
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@Hostilian: could you make an image of the working usb in bare metal and share with us?
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Awesome work! I have finally installed from DSM5.x to 6.x Bare metal. It may have taken me 14 hours, insomnia, screaming kids/wife. A huge thanks to every who posted/helped within this forum
Hi flushentity, that's great.
Can you describe your hardware and you way to get in run....
Best M.
Running this on an old dell insperion dual core, 8gb ram, 2x1gb sata drives, PCI 1gb network card.
Followed the posts and downloaded the ISO, flashed this onto 8gb USB stick, booted - installed, rebooted and left the menu on run. Works flawlessly! Fantastic job, time to flash this onto my other Nas.
@Flushentity: Did you get BTRFS working without any manual mounting commands every time you restart? In my case, the baremetal was ok until I restarted. I was able to manually mount but lost test data.
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Today I've attempted a baremetal install on my box with a NIC (Intel 82579LM) that should be compatible with e1000e driver but right after I boot from the USB and select install option it freezes on the following screen:
As per Cstout, I've tried changing the SATA mode in the BIOS to RAID without any luck.
I used the following IMG (DSM_DS3615xs_7393_boot.img) file posted by Dynax on page 24:
https://mega.nz/#!w9RkULAR!3_Hhvp7yX3kcPEnl36xFFoJQP-OzBOQsfkRBzxw1ONY
Also, I've tried to make a bootable USB out of the ISO (DSM_DS3615xs_7393.iso) posted by Oktisme (page 22) with Rufus and it froze on the same screen shown above.
https://mega.nz/#!5UFiAYAR!KVy46LyxA73XlJE50eD3SriE2XbVMF-AyGQ2CRFhfVs
Any idea how to get past this? Maybe those four Tux pictures mean something? lol
when you get to that screen, go to http://find.synology.com (or synology assistant) to continue with the setup. Either way brtf is not working on my boot file. See my above post for a better more complete setup.
Just a quick update. No matter which img I try (even the last one posted by Dynax), it always freezes at the screen shown above if I select the Install option. Find.synology.com won't see it at all. On the other hand, Synology Assistant does detect it but everything is greyed out including the "connect" button. The only thing that worked for me and allowed me to fully install DSM is the run option but it requires the mount command and after restarting my shares dissapeared. So no go for baremetal even though my nic is compatible. Next I will try it under ESXi 6 or 5.5
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Man, you're on fire Dynax. I will test the latest img in baremetal today. Between running baremetal and on ESXi, what are the main advantages of each? I would assume the only reason to go with hypervisor is to run multi environments but there is probably also a noticable performance hit vs baremetal, correct? Also, why not go with the latest esxi 6? Looks like Chege had good luck with it.
@Chege: which img did you use?
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Thanks Dynax for the updates. I might take the ESXi 5.5 path if it's all working for you.
In xpenboot 5.2 i didn't see this screen with four Tux and that's what threw me off. I was anle to connect to it through find.synology.com and complete the setup. Next I updated DSM to the latest version. As soon as I attempted to create SHR with brtfs it crashed but running the manual mount command as root via SSH fixed it instantly. I was then able to create a new share and install some packages. However, many packages wouldn't install due to missing pgsql. Then I restarted DSM and volume crashed again. Once again, the manual mount command fixed it but my share was gone.
Therefore this procedure doesnt seem to be valid for production setup. I will test ESXi workaround from Dynax and let you know.
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Today I've attempted a baremetal install on my box with a NIC (Intel 82579LM) that should be compatible with e1000e driver but right after I boot from the USB and select install option it freezes on the following screen:
As per Cstout, I've tried changing the SATA mode in the BIOS to RAID without any luck.
I used the following IMG (DSM_DS3615xs_7393_boot.img) file posted by Dynax on page 24:
https://mega.nz/#!w9RkULAR!3_Hhvp7yX3kcPEnl36xFFoJQP-OzBOQsfkRBzxw1ONY
Also, I've tried to make a bootable USB out of the ISO (DSM_DS3615xs_7393.iso) posted by Oktisme (page 22) with Rufus and it froze on the same screen shown above.
https://mega.nz/#!5UFiAYAR!KVy46LyxA73XlJE50eD3SriE2XbVMF-AyGQ2CRFhfVs
Any idea how to get past this? Maybe those four Tux pictures mean something? lol
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Sorry but I'm getting a bit confused with all the different responses. Can someone confirm that everything works in a baremetal setup as long as the hardware (mainly the NIC) is compatible (brtfs, volumes mounting, SHR, updatable os, packages install, etc.) ?
If it does, can I politely ask to write a step-by-step instructions including the proper img and pat files to download?
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It will work on real hardware with the ISO as long as you have fully compatible hardware out-of-box. Drivers cannot be added without the kernel source. Few network cards are compatible but you can try.
Where can we check the full list of compatible hardware? In addition to the network card, what would be the other crucial hardware components to make this work? I take it the cpu and raid controller would be in that list.
Only the network card that is giving people trouble. CPU and raid controller (must be in IT mode if you use an add-in card) are invisible to the OS so DSM doesn't care - note how xpenology always mis-id the CPU/core? it's because the value strings are hard coded, not read off of the actual CPU.
Thanks Dynax. Do we have a full list of DSM 6 out-of-box compatible network cards?
For e1000e, based on the following link, these NICs should run fine. I have one setup with Intel 82579LM so I just might be in luck.
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/15817
Intel® 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Intel® 82572EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Intel® 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Intel® 82573E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Intel® 82573V Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Intel® 82567 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Intel® 82574L Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Intel® 82566MM Gigabit Ethernet PHY
Intel® 82566MC Gigabit Ethernet PHY
Intel® 82566DM Gigabit Ethernet PHY
Intel® 82566DC Gigabit Ethernet PHY
Intel® 82563EB Gigabit Ethernet PHY
Intel® 82574IT Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Intel® 82583V Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Intel® 82579LM Gigabit Ethernet PHY
Intel® Gigabit CT Desktop Adapter
Intel® PRO/1000 PF Dual Port Server Adapter
Intel® PRO/1000 PF Quad Port Server Adapter
Intel® PRO/1000 PF Server Adapter
Intel® PRO/1000 PT Desktop Adapter
Intel® PRO/1000 PT Dual Port Server Adapter
Intel® PRO/1000 PT Quad Port Low Profile Server Adapter
Intel® PRO/1000 PT Quad Port Server Adapter
Intel® PRO/1000 PT Server Adapter
Intel® 82579V Gigabit Ethernet PHY
Intel® 82577LC Gigabit Ethernet PHY
Intel® 82577LM Gigabit Ethernet PHY
Intel® 82578DC Gigabit Ethernet PHY
Intel® 82578DM Gigabit Ethernet PHY
Intel® Ethernet Connection I217-LM
Intel® Ethernet Connection I217-V
Intel® Ethernet Connection I218-V
Intel® Ethernet Connection I218-LM
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It will work on real hardware with the ISO as long as you have fully compatible hardware out-of-box. Drivers cannot be added without the kernel source. Few network cards are compatible but you can try.
Where can we check the full list of compatible hardware? In addition to the network card, what would be the other crucial hardware components to make this work? I take it the cpu and raid controller would be in that list.
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Just to be on the same page, is everything working with oktisme's instructions including btrfs raid, all packages and dsm updates?
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My plan is to save up and get a 6 or 8 bay synology device. Once that happens, can I just move my current 4 xpenology drives without loss of data?
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I am relatively new to the world of DIY NAS and so far it's been a great experience with XPEnology. The only thing that I seem to be struggling with is a way to manage my large collection of documents (DOCX, XLSX, PDF, RTF, TXT, HTML, EML, etc.)
Do you know of any document management packages that would allow me to index these document formats and provide google-like fast-as-you-type search with keyword highlighting and document preview? The idea here is to perform all indexing and search queries right on the NAS and I would like to avoid doing client-side indexing. If anyone has tried X1 Search, you know what I am after. I find Synology's search very limited. I know v6 has improved this area but I was trying their online demo and IMO it's still far behind compared to top desktop search tools.
Edit: just to add, there is another great search indexer called DTSearch and it comes as a Web Engine and Desktop search. Has anyone managed to integrated it in their NAS?
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I agree. I will still go ahead with this setup but also sync the crucial data (photos, docs, etc) with external drive or another pc.