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I have Xpenology now running on two 64-bit machines. They have Intel Gigabit NICs as does my PC running Windows 7 and they are all on the same Gigabit switch.
I can get file copy speeds of close to 100MB/s between my PC and either of the NAS units using Windows Explorer to do the drag-and-drop. However, if I mount one of the NAS volumes in File Station of the other NAS and do a drag-and-drop copy within File Station, the transfer performance is halved! CPU utilization is negligible.
Does File Station use a different (and underperforming!) protocol than the CIFS/SMB between Windows and the NAS?
How might I get the performance to improve?
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Hi,
Good news, I solved my USB problem by going in the BIOS and put "Enabled" instead of "Automatic" on the USB 3.0
For the rest, everything was already configured like fufik65 suggested
+1
DSM couldn't detect any device, now it's working great
Worked for me too!
Thanks.
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I'm trying to repurpose an old x86 PC to be my backup NAS with PATA drives. Unfortunately, Nanoboot does not see the PATA drives and the screen scrolls too fast for me to see what some of the log error messages in red are saying.
How do I debug this? So far, I'm having to hard power cycle the machine because I haven't been able to find the default password to log in to the nanoboot console and do a controlled shutdown
(I realize that the ultimate answer may be that the drivers are insufficient to use the machine but would like to try as a learning exercise before giving up)
Thanks
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I have a HP N54L running successfully with Nanoboot NB_x64_5032_DSM_50-4493_Xpenology_nl and DSM 5.0 Update 7. Earlier today, I used the same USB boot stick and hard drives and connected them to my ASRock motherboard (BIOS 1.30) and was happy to see that Xpenology came right up.
However, while the Nanoboot console screen displays, it will not interact with the keyboard regardless of whether I connect it to USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 ports in the rear.
So I switch to Gnoboot 10.5. Again, system boots into Xpenology fine but keyboard will not interact with the Gnoboot console.
Are those of you running this motherboard able to use your console keyboards?
Thanks.
P.S.: For completeness, I should say that the keyboard works in the initial part of the boot process when you interact with grub, just not once you are at the DiskStation login prompt.
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Hi everyone!
Schnapps, can you confirm me that I can install mSATA SSD (and the another 4 SATA) in the Q1900? Because Asrock say that the mainboard have minipci-e half size...and maybe it can't be compatible with mSATA.
Thanks and regards.
Hi Tocinillo,
Natively, you can install 4 SATA HDDs and supplimentary, with a mini PCI-E half size or an addapter, you can have in total 5HDDs/SSDs in your Q1900-ITX box.
I also bought a 2x SATA Syba PCI-Express-Card (2 SATA-Ports with6 Gbit/s, PCI Express 2.0, PCIe x1) and i can squeeze more HDDs.
SATA2 is also working and is recommended if you have HDDs connected to the PCI-E SATAaddon card
Nice! Thanks for your quick reply. So with a mini-pcie half size SSD the motherboard works fine? (because some motherboard doesn't work HDD/SSD in the mini-pcie, becuase it is only for wifi/BT modules).
Thanks again and regards.
mSATA and mPCIe use the same connector and each leaves certain pins reserved that the other can use with the exception of serial data which is differently specified for SATA vs PCIe. mPCIe support for USB (which is used for BT) and UIM (used for SIM cards) seems to be optional. It is up to the system designer how many of these they actually implement in their mainboard for an OEM design which is why people have different experiences when they plug WiFi, BT, WAN, mSATA storage, mPCIe storage or combo cards into their systems. Some data sheets will have a notation like "the mPCIe slot does not support BT" but most don't say anything.
An app note from the supplier of a chip that helps deal with the signal differences between SATA and PCIe data also sheds light on the pinouts in general and can be found at http://www.nxp.com/documents/application_note/AN11001.pdf
The actual specs at the PCISIG website seem to require a paid membership.
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Shteve,
I have two drives in a disk group configured as JBOD which, in hindsight, was probably not the greatest idea since both drives worth of data will have to be backed up even if I only want to upgrade one of them. In the future, I will keep them as separate volumes and try to figure out a way to make them appear as one through symbolic links.
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OP, were you able to go from 3 drives in a 4 drive-bay system to 4 drives, 2 of which were new?
Is there a path to replacing a functioning drive with a larger one without backing up the entire Disk Group? Especially in a JBOD configuration where there is no redundancy?
For example, Windows Home Server had a process where you could take a hard drive out of service administratively assuming your data would fit in the remaining drives, then replace the drive physically with a larger one and add it back to the volume administratively.
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I'm in the process of getting DSM5 on my HP N54L to replace my old D-link DNS-323 NAS and have run into odd behavior that I'm hoping someone can shed light on.
I've mounted share volumes on both the HP and the D-link as drive letters on my Windows 7 PC and copied some files over from the latter to the former. Then I tried running rsync -aivx on the HP with the D-link as the remote and was surprised to see that the machine wants to recopy the files instead of recognizing that they are identical! If I let rsync copy over the files, it at least is nice enough to not recopy them on a subsequent attempt.
Using Windows (File) Explorer in Details View on both these mount points, I notice that navigating the folders and opening files in read-only mode seems to change the "Modified Date" field in the HP case but not in the D-link case.
Any insight will be greatly appreciated.
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liukuohao,
Would you be so kind as to describe the limitations off the various boot images?
Thanks.
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Got two XPenology's now. Just installed DSM 5.0-4493 Update 2 as per above site (xpenology.nl) on an old Laptop to see if it will run. And, to my suprise, it does. Pretty good too.
Only thing not working is the WiFi adapter. My purpose for the laptop is to use it as my NAS on holiday, so I can stow some movies on it for me and my kids with their tablets, use it as a storage for my camera and as an access point/dhcp for a local LAN while away and maybe in the car.
Since you don't need all the bells and whistles of a NAS OS for this use case, why wouldn't you just run a client OS like Windows or a Linux distro like Ubuntu-desktop on your laptop and configure file sharing? In particular, support for vulnerability patches will be better.
Honest question, since that is what I do when I travel and may have missed a valuable insight.
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Stupid question from a long time Xpenology user.
What are people using the VID/PID customization in syslinux.cfg for?
U use that to hide usb stick in dsm. That's the vid and pid of original synology.
Read Here: http://www.techspot.com/review/649-syno ... page2.html
"This tiny PCB features a USBest UT165-L46 controller that's often found in thumb drives and is connected to a single Samsung K9F1G08U0C-PCB0 128MB memory chip, which is designed to house the operating system."
Thanks!
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Stupid question from a long time Xpenology user.
What are people using the VID/PID customization in syslinux.cfg for?
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What do these firewall rules do to the traffic over the VPN?
Thanks.
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Hi guys...
I'm planning to buy HP MediaSmart EX485 or EX495 for xpenology. Do you have any experience if this will work with xpenology. Pricing for a used one is around 150$ and it support 4 HDDs Sata.
Thanks in advance!
As someone who has xpenology on the EX495 and the N54L, I would strongly encourage you to buy the latter. When you have problems, (and you will!), you will be glad that you have a VGA port to help you with the debug!
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please add a url link to the lmDisk installable package.
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I had to do the same with alpha8. Anybody still having issues, should install ImDisk Virtual Disk. It can mount .img files as a r\w volume within windows. Copy the new files over and unmount which saves all the changes you made
ImDisk also lets you create a new .img file by right clicking on the mounted volume.How do you deal with the fact that Windows wants to format the newly mounted virtual disk because it does not recognize the format?
ImDisk is supposed to read ext2/3 partitions, so it should read the disks in windows if its working correctly.
I'm having this trouble with version 1.7.6 and have tried the alpha7 .img file and trantor's .img files.
Added: I've made some progress. Turns out I had installed something called the ImDisk Toolkit which I uninstalled and replaced with the ImDisk installable package. Now I can mount and see the contents of the .img file but the tool gives me an error message when I try to extend the size of the virtual disk.
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I had to do the same with alpha8. Anybody still having issues, should install ImDisk Virtual Disk. It can mount .img files as a r\w volume within windows. Copy the new files over and unmount which saves all the changes you made
ImDisk also lets you create a new .img file by right clicking on the mounted volume.How do you deal with the fact that Windows wants to format the newly mounted virtual disk because it does not recognize the format?
ImDisk is supposed to read ext2/3 partitions, so it should read the disks in windows if its working correctly.
I'm having this trouble with version 1.7.6 and have tried the alpha7 .img file and trantor's .img files.
Added: I've made some progress. Turns out I had installed something called the ImDisk Toolkit which I uninstalled and replaced with the ImDisk installable package. Now I can mount and see the contents of the .img file but the tool gives me an error message when I try to extend the size of the virtual disk.
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Come on... no one can help us ?
I kinda find it a PITA too, but I usually get all his releases working. I mounted a previous version image. deleted it's zImage and rd, and removed all the grub menu stuff, then copied over the newer stuff. Then converted the image to vdmk with StarWind V2V Image Converter. Then upload it to my esxi datastore to be used in my VM.
my only issue is rmmod seems to not be working anymore. So I can't prevent kernel mods from loading.
edit: I'm now playing with LSI 9201-8i controller on my test system (~$75 on ebay, can be flashed with 9211-8i IT firmware/bios). Seems to work fine so far. But I need more disks to test with.
I had to do the same with alpha8. Anybody still having issues, should install ImDisk Virtual Disk. It can mount .img files as a r\w volume within windows. Copy the new files over and unmount which saves all the changes you made
ImDisk also lets you create a new .img file by right clicking on the mounted volume.How do you deal with the fact that Windows wants to format the newly mounted virtual disk because it does not recognize the format?
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Come on... no one can help us ?
I kinda find it a PITA too, but I usually get all his releases working. I mounted a previous version image. deleted it's zImage and rd, and removed all the grub menu stuff, then copied over the newer stuff. Then converted the image to vdmk with StarWind V2V Image Converter. Then upload it to my esxi datastore to be used in my VM.
my only issue is rmmod seems to not be working anymore. So I can't prevent kernel mods from loading.
edit: I'm now playing with LSI 9201-8i controller on my test system (~$75 on ebay, can be flashed with 9211-8i IT firmware/bios). Seems to work fine so far. But I need more disks to test with.
I had to do the same with alpha8. Anybody still having issues, should install ImDisk Virtual Disk. It can mount .img files as a r\w volume within windows. Copy the new files over and unmount which saves all the changes you made
ImDisk also lets you create a new .img file by right clicking on the mounted volume.How do you deal with the fact that Windows wants to format the newly mounted virtual disk because it does not recognize the format?
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Someone can help me to create a bootable usb stick with the new gnoboot alpha 8 ?
Me too. I tried replacing the files on my alpha7 USB stick with the ones from here but that did not do it.
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Someone can help me to create a bootable usb stick with the new gnoboot alpha 8 ?
Me too. I tried replacing the files on my alpha7 USB stick with the ones from here but that did not do it.
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I recently made the transition to gnoBoot on my N54L with an added Intel dual-NIC card and running DSM 5 Beta and am happy to see that I didn't have to play games with the MAC addresses. I'm still at a loss how to customize the serial number, though.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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I recently made the transition to gnoBoot on my N54L with an added Intel dual-NIC card and running DSM 5 Beta and am happy to see that I didn't have to play games with the MAC addresses. I'm still at a loss how to customize the serial number, though.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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How can I tell if my disks are spinning down?
Touch the bay and see if you can feel the vibration of the drive. I'm not kidding!
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I tried rsync but the transfer performance was the same while the CPU utilization went up, especially on the NAS from which the data was being read.
A Web search revealed that a performance boost could be had for compressed files by reducing the amount of compression being attempted by rsync and my transfer speed is now around 100MB/s
You need to switch from the default zlib compressor to arcfour to turn off compression, as in (boldface for emphasis):
rsync -aivx -W -e 'ssh -c arcfour -o Compression=no -x' 192.168.1.205://volume1/Share1/Videos .
I'm still curious as to what is happening with drag-and-drop in File Station