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  1. spellman

    DSM 6.1.x Loader

    Drivers for USB 1.1 aren't currently included (which I believe most ups's use). Jun has stated that he is working on adding them for the next release.
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    DSM 6.1.x Loader

    Jun, I must preface this that I know very little about linux systems at this point, and I know little about the kernal, but can you tell us if at this point stuff is or isn't in place that this loader can recognize usb 1.1 devices? Not that I'm trying to hook some ancient thumb drive up to it, but it seems like that is what a fair amount of the ups systems are using to communicate. My bare metal system seems to be working very well and is destined to be an off site back up at my parents house, but we live in a rural area and power outages can be quite common in in-climate weather. Both my cyberpower and apc ups's that I have tried don't register as connected when I plug the usb in, and I wonder if the usb 1.1 interface are the cause. I am handy with implementing workarounds, but I haven't found something that will solve my problem yet. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. I'm even considering getting something like a raspberry pi to create a network controlled communication between the devices, but for obvious reasons it would be much simpler to plug it straight into the nas itself. Thank you so much for your time and effort on this project, it is helping so many people!
  3. spellman

    DSM 6.1.x Loader

    Did some more digging on what could be going on. I'm thinking my ups only has a usb 1.1 port. I've read where previous xpenology builds didn't have the driver modules to talk to 1.1 devices, but that post was several years old and may not apply here. Does this DSM 6.0 have any such modules included(UHCI or OHCI)? *Edit: Also just tried on an old APC UPS, and no go with that either.
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    DSM 6.1.x Loader

    So I did some more testing for my cyberpower ups. I drug it over to my 1513+ and it did not recognize it being connected to the usb either. Tried switching the usb cable and it worked (the first one did work when plugged into a computer however). So I thought wow, I'm such a boob, that was easy. Drug it back to my xpenology test system and plugged everything back in and...nothing. Are there some drivers or something that could be missing? Anything that someone could suggest I check? USB flash drives work fine when plugging them in, so I know the usb ports are working. Disclosure, I'm using one of the original dsm methods from page 10? or something. Everything else was working great on my system and it didn't look like I was gaining anything by using some of the new releases as my sata controllers and nic were working great out of the box.
  5. spellman

    DSM 6.1.x Loader

    Is anyone else having issues with their ups? I just got a cyperpower or500 that I'm trying to get working, but doesn't seem to be noticing that it is plugged in. I only have options in the ups management page for network ups's. Is there something else that needs to be installed? This ups should be compatible, but haven't figured out what is going on yet. Any help would be awesome! This is on bare metal btw, usb ports are working correctly.
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    DSM 6.1.x Loader

    As I understand it btrfs has good data integrity checks which seems like a major advantage in a data storage and backup environment where bitrot is a potential issue. ext4 doesn't offer that layer of checking and is therefore less reliable with respect to data integrity. I haven't used anything with btrfs so I don't know how it's implemented in a real world environment? I assume the core features of btrfs are usable so there are snapshot, deduplication and cloning options to name a few benefits. The big issue seems to be the limitation of raid system support and in our case shr and the advantages that has for mixed drive support. I think the topic needs a thread in its own right because it's going to be a decision we all face now that we can make use of DSM6. Many of us have a mishmash of drives so retaining shr would be an advantage. I was going to rebuild my systems with fresh installs of DSM6 but now you have got me rethinking that idea. Thanks for the info! Yeah I knew about the bitrot prevention (something I have personally never seen), but haven't ever heard many hard facts about the deduplication and cloning options, just a lot of either "btrfs is the worst, doesn't do what it says and is slower" or "you are ignorant and irresponsible if you are using a file system other that btrfs." Is there anything that ties this installation directly to the 3615xs aside from the model number? I haven't tried changing that but wasn't sure if you could swap that out in the grub.cfg and download a pat for a different model. Obviously there are other issues with sn and mac addresses for quickconnect. But it would be awesome to just get a btrfs volume created, then migrate that to the 3615xs that seems to be working great.
  7. spellman

    DSM 6.1.x Loader

    Another update to my shr. For some reason I have been under the impression that a ds1513+ can do btrfs, but alas it can't. So that means I don't have any way of building a shr btrfs volume. I don't see why it wouldn't work to build a volume on a machine that can and then migrate it into the 3615xs dsm 6.0. For now I'm calling it quits on that and moving forward on building my actual shr ext4 volume that I will use as a destination hyper backup machine. Anyone have a few quick words on if ext4 or btrfs matters for this purpose? There is a lot of conflicting reports on the net, and at the end of the day how much will it matter? If you want to build a new shr volume for dsm 6.0, I would put xpenology 5.2 5967 on another usb and run that. Build your volume, then replace the usb with the dsm 6 one. Last step is to simply migrate the volume in. You can expand that volume by adding new drives, and I presume by replacing drives with larger ones (didn't test that, but see no reason why it wouldn't work). I'm guessing synology left the dormant code for shr in for migrating purposes. I think I read somewhere that shr has a max volume of 108tb. With todays larger drives and the market that this is aimed at, I'm guessing that they are trying to steer people away from hitting that threshold with these large drive number bays before they get a chance to run into that issue.
  8. spellman

    DSM 6.1.x Loader

    Just an update on my migrated shr tests: expanding to an additional drive works! I'm going to assume that swapping an existing drive to a larger one should be fine as well. If shr is something you want, I would create your volumes using 5.2, then migrate them to this 6.0. Once you are in 6.0 you can't create new shr volumes only standard raid, so get everything how you want it first. This method does limit you to ext4. Next thing I'm going to try is to use my ds1513+ to create a shr btrfs volume and see if I can migrate that into this build and expand it all the way through. Wish me luck, too bad these tests take days to do!
  9. spellman

    DSM 6.1.x Loader

    I just tried making a shr-1 volume in the xpenology 5.2, then swapped usb and put my 6.0 stick in. Had to reinstall to the box, but it worked! It kept my shr-1 volume and seems to be working. Right now I am testing expanding the volume by adding another drive (gonna take a while). Then I might try replacing a drive with a larger one to make sure that works. One note, this will only get you ext4. I may try and build a small btrfs volume using my 1513+ and try moving that over.
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    DSM 6.1.x Loader

    Does this mean this version should have SHR capabilities? When building a new volume it told me I needed to setup a raid array, and I did not have shr as an option. Has anyone gotten this to work? I used the pat file from synology, was I wrong in doing that? Is there a different one I should be using? If I were to build my shr volume in dsm 5, then redo the system as dsm 6, will I be able to keep shr capabilities? I can obviously test some of this myself, but when it takes days to build these volumes, I kind of would like to have an idea if it will work or not if it is already known by others. Is anyone else having issues with speed of their servers? DSM 6 seems to really bog down and take forever to apply saved settings on this setup and not be as snappy as my real DS. Could just be in my head though. This is running on a intel e2210 (2ghz) with 3g of ddr2 memory. The cpu load and ram load meters never really go that high, but just seems kind of laggy.
  11. spellman

    DSM 6.1.x Loader

    Got this up and running on an older pc with the idea that I can move it to my parents house and have an off site backup of my ds1513+. One issue I ran into was the ds3615xs no longer supports shr in dsm 6.0 when making new volumes, and for me that has got me stuck in my tracks. I'm planning on using a pile of my old hdds to get my total space and they are of various sizes. As I understand this is a dynamic patcher correct? What is the likelihood that this would work on a system that still supports shr? I would use the corresponding pat and change sn and model number in grub.cfg of course. I was going to try this, but am currently still testing as it is for stability, and didn't feel like clearing the whole thing out in the middle of that and messing it up if it flat out won't work from the git go. Any thoughts or guidance would be super helpful. Thanks to all that have worked on this!
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