Hostilian
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They don't need to match a real box but Synology's registered Mac address range is on 001132...
I've only ever used addresses on this range..
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Ahhh.. Pretty sure you shouldn't use the MAC address of the board.
I thought you needed to use something as per a mac and serial number generator - as Synology use a particular range of MAC Addresses.Use loader 1.03b
My grub.cfg for the DS3617xs on this board 'had'...
set sn=1690ODN068xxx
set mac1=001132552xxxFinish off the serial number and MAC yourself - replacing the serial XXX with a number and the mac1 XXX with a hex-number..
Check your VID and PID again of your USB drive and then change them to suit..
change 'SataportMap' to equal 4 (in grub.cfg)..
BIOS
There are definitely some things you need to change in the BIOS and - as mentioned - you MUST boot to Legacy USB (NOT UEFI)....
You also need to enable CSM and set the USB to legacy. Dont change Video to legacy or you'll probably get a black screen and need to use your CMOS reset jumper!
Also Disable C-States.
I havent tried DS3615 on this board..
NIC
Also, try another NIC, if you have one.. if you dont, you can pick up a single port card for about £10 (ex-corporate) on Ebay..
Dual port NICs come in about £25
Make sure you buy intel nics ..
Definitely try using another network cable and another port on your switch..
Rather than using the Find synology utility, use a network scanner and look for the MAC address you set above.. Then you'll know for sure..
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3 hours ago, rickym said:
Yes not the cable. I have tried so many different things. 918 3615 17 etc and different versions. I just cant get it to work. Had no problems with some of my other boards but really wanted to use this due to low power usage. Sending it back to New Egg. By the way works fine on linux and windows. Spent so many hours working with it to no avail. I have been defeated.
Any suggestions on an embedded motherboard what will definitely work other than the one I tried greatly appreciated. Also updated bios to latest just hoping that could be the problem but no difference.
No joke.. The board works fine for me..
I had it running with DS3617 and then did an 'upgrade' to DS918+ both were on DS 6.2.1.Have you sent it back yet? Could be BIOS settings?
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Do you have a spare PCI-E add-in NIC you could use as a test?
Mine works fine, by the way.. I've filtered out the onboard, Realtek, NIC in this DMESG output..
root@DS918ss:/dev# dmesg | grep -i r8168 [ 197.295769] r8168 Gigabit Ethernet driver 8.045.08-NAPI loaded [ 197.318491] r8168: This product is covered by one or more of the following patents: US6,570,884, US6,115,776, and US6,327,625. [ 197.318502] r8168 Copyright (C) 2017 Realtek NIC software team <nicfae@realtek.com> [ 197.712224] Modules linked in: i915(E+) drm_kms_helper(E) syscopyarea(E) sysfillrect(E) sysimgblt(E) fb_sys_fops(E) cfbfillrect(E) cfbcopyarea(E) cfbimgblt(E) drm(E) fb(E) fbdev intel_agp(E) intel_gtt(E) agpgart(E) video backlight button synoacl_vfs(PO) hfsplus md4 hmac r8168(OE) ixgbe(E) igb(E) i2c_algo_bit e1000e(E) vxlan ip6_udp_tunnel udp_tunnel fuse vfat fat crc32c_intel aesni_intel glue_helper lrw gf128mul ablk_helper arc4 cryptd ecryptfs sha256_generic ecb aes_x86_64 authenc des_generic ansi_cprng cts md5 cbc cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_performance acpi_cpufreq processor cpufreq_stats dm_snapshot dm_bufio crc_itu_t crc_ccitt quota_v2 quota_tree psnap p8022 llc sit tunnel4 ip_tunnel ipv6 zram sg etxhci_hcd rtc_cmos(E) mdio(E) mpt3sas(E) raid_class(E) scsi_transport_sas(E) megaraid_sas(E) megaraid(E) [ 197.735454] Modules linked in: i915(E+) drm_kms_helper(E) syscopyarea(E) sysfillrect(E) sysimgblt(E) fb_sys_fops(E) cfbfillrect(E) cfbcopyarea(E) cfbimgblt(E) drm(E) fb(E) fbdev intel_agp(E) intel_gtt(E) agpgart(E) video backlight button synoacl_vfs(PO) hfsplus md4 hmac r8168(OE) ixgbe(E) igb(E) i2c_algo_bit e1000e(E) vxlan ip6_udp_tunnel udp_tunnel fuse vfat fat crc32c_intel aesni_intel glue_helper lrw gf128mul ablk_helper arc4 cryptd ecryptfs sha256_generic ecb aes_x86_64 authenc des_generic ansi_cprng cts md5 cbc cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_performance acpi_cpufreq processor cpufreq_stats dm_snapshot dm_bufio crc_itu_t crc_ccitt quota_v2 quota_tree psnap p8022 llc sit tunnel4 ip_tunnel ipv6 zram sg etxhci_hcd rtc_cmos(E) mdio(E) mpt3sas(E) raid_class(E) scsi_transport_sas(E) megaraid_sas(E) megaraid(E) [ 198.356729] r8168 0000:01:00.0 eth0: renamed from eth1 [ 201.991200] r8168: eth0: link up
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I don't have video station, media server or any other media packages installed on this box - I don't even use it to store movies (that's on my other DS3615 box).. It's a low-power, always-on box for Surveillance station, MP3's, Backups and a temporary file store..
Should that folder exist without any of those packages - and without any attempt to stream anything?
It doesn't exist, by the way..
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10 hours ago, ideasman69 said:
with 4 drives in RAID5 on the J3455B-ITX:
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 7.00778 s, 153 MB/s
with 4 drives in RAID5 on the J3455M:
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 7.98305 s, 135 MB/s
I'd love to know how you're getting such good performance on that board @Hostilian! Or is that just 1x disk?RAID 5 sucks, that's why..
- Slow write, marginally better read, ridiculously slow to rebuild volumes...
Yes, there is more disk wasted but IMO it's worth the trade-off..
My disks are all either RAID 1 or single disk (where I don't really need fault tolerance for a particular disk). Sometimes RAID0 where I need speed over fault tolerance..
All have external backups..
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I don't use transcoding... To be honest, I don't see the point; I stream to whatever I'm watching it on in whatever format it's in..
I'm not saying it's not working, just that I've not tried it..
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1 minute ago, NoFate said:
well,
i have a real ds1512 , i use that sn/mac now, but i also want to change just the model name string, so when i connect the device to synlogy servers, synology will think its a real box
cause of the model/sn/mac combination, then i can use/buy live keys for SS
I really don't think it'll work unless you get a DS1512 loader, but that's a backwards step, isn't it?
However, it might be worth a shot.. You can buy it anyway - as you can transfer the license to whatever you can get to work on your Xpenology (as long as it's only on 1 system at a time)..
......and if you can't get it to work, you can always sell it on (or return it)..
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On 11/5/2018 at 10:06 PM, NoFate said:
ok, wanted to test also, i have a real ds1512+ , so changed SN+MAC in grub file
also changed this : syno_hw_version=DS1512+
now, on first boot to install DSM , it still recognizes the ds3615 ? what else do i need to change, to the system thinks its a ds1512 ?
I dont think you can do it that way around; unless someone releases a loader for a DS1512.. You could then install the pat file for that model.
Why do you want to do that though?
License keys are now transferable between systems (thanks EU) as long as it's only on one system at a time...
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Not sure, couldn't find it on the site either - though 1.7 was meant deal with Spectre.
Both worked without issue on my board..
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This is a popular board for Xpenology installs, so just as an FYI..
Asrock have finally 'officially' released some of the BIOS that have been floating around the internet for a while..
Feeling a lot more comfortable updating them now - considering the previous reports of bricked boards..
1.70 (bridging BIOS - need to do this first)
1.80 (latest update)
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Unfortunately, this benchmarking option doesn't seem to be in the DS918+ (though it is in the DS3615 and DS3617).
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9 minutes ago, flyride said:
Something is flawed about this. Write cache turned on? I don't think there is a spinning disk on the planet that can write 153 MBps.
Dunno but WD Black drives (on userbench) say that the 1TB 2013 model can write at 139MBs and the 4TB 2016 model at 175MBs (Sustained @ 133 and 170 respectively)!!
They're definitely a lot better than they used to be - and of course, this isn't limited by network speed..
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Interesting find.. I think my disks are all BTRFS; but good to know!
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There are many variables at play and this isn't meant to be a precise reading but more a rough guide to performance on your own hardware..
It should help people find out where there may be issues OR bottlenecks in their own setup..
Whilst the loader versions 'may' make a difference, it's more likely to be the CPU hardware that dictates CPU performance. Disk Controllers and Disk types are also more likely to dictate disk performance (funnily enough)..
As long as people list their hardware relevant to the benchmarks (ie CPU, disk controllers and disks etc - along with the loader versions) it should be good enough to find out where any problems might lie..
It's also important to use the same benchmark method to compare like with like, so the post above (sorry, cdrvbfhq) is muddying the waters a bit..
It was definitely not meant to be a benchmark pissing-contest (that you get with CPU overclocking or Graphics benchmarks)..
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24 minutes ago, Tattoofreak said:
No I haven't. Is this causing the issue?🙄
Who knows; but it's better having it installed, than not installed..
Get them here;
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1 hour ago, Tattoofreak said:
Okay, that worked fine, thanks a lot.
I now uninstalled and re-instaled VMM but still the same as you can see on the screenshot.
Am I the only one wih this issue?
Have you installed Open VM tools (basically VMWare tools) on your Synology?
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Can you back everything up to another disk? I wouldn't attempt it without a full backup..
It should work on same or newer - just moving the disks into your new box when you get it up and running - but, of course, there are no guarantees!
DS3617 should be enough but it really depends on what you want to do with it..
I'd put on the latest version and loader your hardware 'supports'..
I've a mix of DS3615, DS3617 and DS918+
DS918+ - Low power, always on - for cams and music storage. Also a drive for backups - but it's not great for spinning it down..
DS3615 main storage, movies etc. I'll probably move to DS3617 at some point. Not always on..
DS3617 for iSCSI storage for my test VSphere cluster.. Only occasionally on..
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Still there..
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DS918 will NOT work with Ivy Bridge (or older) hardware - that's 3rd gen!
The other ones work fine on Ivy Bridge anyway (DS3615 and DS3617)
I had to upgrade my ESXi server to Haswell to get it to work.
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Well yeah, that's the whole point..
I've always used SN/MACs that are specific to the model - at least within the same range - on all of my boxes..
That wasn't enough for the Surveillance station license.. It needs to mirror an actual box.
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Not sure what you mean..
The Surveillance station licenses are not specific to any model - they can be used on any model..
If you mean using an actual DS3615 SN/MAC on a virtual DS3615 box, then I think adding a SS license should work.. Not much different to what I did..
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21 minutes ago, NoFate said:
Ok, was quite sure that that was going to work, I wonder if the same truck also works on a 3615
Don't see why it would be any different..
No idea as to how long this is going to continue to work for though.. It's a legit key; but who knows what will happen after any Surveillance Station updates etc..
So far so good though.. Means I can retire the DS216j I had running my 3rd camera..
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3 minutes ago, NoFate said:
Tell us more details? Was the real sn/Mac combination from a completely different nas? Or was it from a real 918, so same model...
I had to find a SN/MAC combo from a real DS918+ and set mine to that in the grub.cfg..
I had tried to use a real one and change it slightly but it didn't work and I got the error about network connectivity.
Asrock J3455-ITx question, I think I screwed up.
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Maybe.. It's whichever MAC address you're going to use, so it's your MAC address..
Another way to interpret it; I have MAC Addresses on all of my network enabled products, but I don't add in 100 MAC addresses to my grub.cfg!
I think the first time I tried Xpenology, I tried using my motherboard's MAC address (it makes sense, right?) - but couldn't get it working (I was still learning).
So I switched to a MAC on 001132 range and they've all been fine since then (with a few exceptions, such as surveillance station). I also try to get something near a serial number for the model I am trying to install..