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Can you do another test by re-building again with all 12 drives at a time?

Sorry, double post. Mod please delete it. Thanks.

Just bought a Dell h310 card to install my new Nas (bare metal) with 4x2tb hdd. I may extend more hhds in the future. Installed latest DSM 5.2-5967 on it and everything ran smoothly. I however found in Storage manager (HHD/SSD) 2 HHDs that I hooked up to Dell card shows no info. in Health Info and S.M.A.R.T tabs. 1. Currently I use ORIGINAL (no touch) Dell card. Should I flash it to IT mode to see disk info of those attached to Dell h310 card in Storage Manager? 2. If I have to, is it good enough I flash to Dell FW IT mode or I have to flash to LSI 9211-8i FW? 3. I saw many people flashed this card to IT mode LSI 9211-8i. What benefits will I have in this case with XPEnology installed? It will run smoothly and faster or something? Thanks for your inputs. I appreciate it.

Just bought a Dell h310 card to install my new Nas (bare metal) with 4x2tb hdd. I may extend more hhds in the future. Installed latest DSM 5.2-5967 on it and everything ran smoothly. I however found in Storage manager (HHD/SSD) 2 HHDs that I hooked up to Dell card shows no info. in Health Info and S.M.A.R.T tabs. 1. Currently I use ORIGINAL (no touch) Dell card. Should I flash it to IT mode to see disk info of those attached to Dell h310 card in Storage Manager? 2. If I have to, is it good enough I flash to Dell FW IT mode or I have to flash to LSI 9211-8i FW? 3. I saw many people flashed this card to IT mode LSI 9211-8i. What benefits will I have in this case with XPEnology installed? It will run smoothly and faster or something? Thanks for your inputs. I appreciate it.

A quick question. Do you know when Synology give out source codes of DSM 6 to community? By the rules they would have done it, right?

I really want to test on my bare metal setup. Where can I find the latest working DSM 6? Thanks.

If e1000e driver supports your NIC, then you can run bare metal. Otherwise only through virtualization. Thanks. If so, where can I get the final/working and reliable file to install?

New version is still not built for nas, right?

How do you have 7 hdd without any adapters?

Yes, I have the same issue. Xpenology can see HDDs that I connected to mobo, but it never sees those drives thru the card.

Are you sure? You're so sensitive.

MB based on chip Intel J1900 only has 2 sata ports. It's BIG minus.

On the same boat to ask.

I've followed your instruction. Changed file internalportcfg="0xfffff". Saved and rebooted it. Yes, now I can see 20 slots as you told but Disk 1 & 2 are still missing.

This is your problem. You need to unload the PATA/IDE driver in the nanoboot config, it it will keep reserving those 2 slots. If using nanoboot, you need to edit syslinux.cfg. Here's an example from my config: LABEL Synology DSM 5.0 MENU LABEL Synology DSM 5.0 kernel /zImage rmmod=ata_piix ihd_num=0 netif_num=4 syno_hw_version=DS3612xs sn=B3J4N01003 vid=0x0EA0 pid=0x2168 loglevel=0 vga=0x305 the part I am referring to is; rmmod=ata_piix. That unloads the driver, or my slots would be like yours, first 2 reserved. Change all the menu options in the config to reflect the change. Sorry but I don't know where I can see yslinux.cfg file. I'm using nanoBoot iso to boot my Nas.

Thank you. I'll try it and give feedback if it works.

Thanks, I just found out the missing ports are from SAS card. Looks like DSM 5.0 NanoBoot doesn't have that card driver. This is the page I can download my card driver, but I really don't know what exactly correct driver for DSM 5.0 NanoBoot. http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA_new/r ... wnload.htm Can you guys please help what driver should I download and how I can install it? Thank you very much for your help.

I set it as "SCSI" not IDE nor SATA as recommended. Do I need to change to IDE or SATA? I replaced the first two by those working ones, but same issue. Thanks.

How? I set it up on VMware, BTW. Thanks.

Just installed DSM 5.0 4493 on my PC case with 12 HDD. Doesn't matter how many times I've tried (uninstalled and then reinstalled), XPEnology DS3612xs only sees 10 HDDs even I moved them (12 HDDs) arround. In fact, Disk 1 & 2 are missing Have you ever seen this issue or do you know how to fix it? Much appreciate it.

I think you'd better try it yourself. Good luck.

That`s a great idea, but not sure if it can work.

That's a great idea, IMHO.

Yes, I have the same question. Thanks for the inputs.

I've heard ESXi is headless. How do you run a VM with Windows 8.1 for Windows Media Center to watch live TV?