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    Dell Perc H310 card - Questions

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    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.

    Dell Perc H310 card - Questions

    in Archives

    Posted

    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.

    Working DSM 6

    in Loaders

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    For those of us who don't feel like 30 pages, can someone summarize where we are with DSM 6? Bare metal specifically?

    If e1000e driver supports your NIC, then you can run bare metal. Otherwise only through virtualization.

    baremetal is working for me with supermicro x9srl-f mainboard, additional 10G QLogic NIC & additional 10G D-Link DXE-820T and LSI MPT2SAS/MPT3SAS HBA

     

    ext4 fs volumes fine, about brtfs you need to read trough this 30 pages

    Thanks.

    If so, where can I get the final/working and reliable file to install?

    highpoint rocketraid 640l not able to see in 5.0-4528

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    Hi,

    Installed xpenology 5.0-4528 version in my old Windows server it has highpoint rocketraid 640l with four 3 TB hard drives..

     

    how do i install the driver in xpenology 5.0-4528..

     

    Any one help me.. I am seeing only my SSD from xpenology 5.0-4528.

    Yes, I have the same issue.

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

    64Bit - DS3612xs is capable with 12 drives, is that true?

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    There is a really simple fix for this problem.

     

    ssh into your xpenology system

    edit /etc.defaults/synoinfo.conf

     

    modify internalportcfg and esataportcfg fields

     

    original values

    ----------------

    internalportcfg="0xfff"

    esataportcfg="0xff000"

     

    change to something like this

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    internalportcfg="0xfffff"

    esataportcfg="0x0"

     

    Save the file and reboot. You should see all of your drives now.

     

    The above fields are device letter masks. The original value of 0xfff is a hexadecimal mask indicating up to 12 devices are internal drives from /dev/sda to /dev/sdl. However, if your device assignments fall out side of that range (for example /dev/sdm and /dev/sdn), then you'll need to increase it to accommodate. The new value of 0xfffff signifies that there can be up to 20 devices from /dev/sda through /dev/sdt. Hopefully this is enough to cover all of your internal disk letters.

     

    NOTE: On a real Synology DS3612xs, there are exactly 12 internal ports that will get enumerated from /dev/sda to /dev/sdl. However, on your system, you may have additional ports (SATA or PATA) that are unused, but they will still occupy a device letter. So let's say you have 16 ports on your server, but you're only using 12 of them. Some of your drives' enumeration may very well fall outside of the original 12 from /dev/sda through /dev/sdl. Therefore, you need to modify your internalportcfg value to cover your system's device enumeration.

     

    If you want to know what exact drive letters are being enumerated on your system, run the following commaned

    fdisk -l |grep ^Disk

    If you search for internalportcfg in this forum, you'll see it being discussed multiple times. I have 14 SATA ports (6 onboard SATA + 8 SAS ports) on my server. 12 of the 14 are currently populated.. The values I use are....

     

    esataportcfg="0x0" // i have no esata drives

    internalportcfg="0xfffff" // up to 20 internal devices enumeration letters from /dev/sda - /dev/sdt

    usbportcfg="0xf00000" // usb will get enumerated from /dev/sdu - /dev/sdx

     

    Check my other post to see how I got 24 drives to show up in VMware.

    http://xpenology.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3529&p=21475&hilit=internalportcfg#p21475

     

     

    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. :oops:

     

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    64Bit - DS3612xs is capable with 12 drives, is that true?

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    Posted

    You may have PATA/IDE controller enabled. That may account for the first two unpopulated drives.

     

    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.

    64Bit - DS3612xs is capable with 12 drives, is that true?

    in Archives

    Posted

    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.

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