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  1. mgrobins started following Tutorial : How to combine default Surveillance stations licenses on one server.
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    I'm a little confused here and about to jump into this rabbit hole. I have a DS1812+ which is near end of life after a removalist dropped it and buggered some drive bays. It still works though as an accessible NAS which means I would have the serial number benefits and licence for cameras (Do we get 6 cameras on default SS?). I'd normally have more research done myself however the guides on here are mostly way out of date and need a hard resent with new guides and instructions. Outside of this space there is very limited community information which is a shame. I think this is the most usable choice of OS for home users. Questions: 1. Does each xpenology machine give me additional cameras I can use from its default licence or do I not get SS on it at all? 2. Can licences be purchased that will work on Xpenology? 3. If I use my DS1812+ as host to set things up, or to grab its licence, can I then shut it down and leave it unless I have to make host changes? 4. It never used to be possible to take the serial from an owned DS unit and use it to create a Xpenology NAS. Has this changed and does it influence what we can do here? 5. How are you accessing SS externally from home - is there an app that it functions with or must you log in to the nas by browser (eg with Talescale or other VPN method)?
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    Thank you, that gives me a lot more confidence. I admit I have had years of not updating a NAS in my home environment but that was when I had no desire to do more than store information locally accessed. An interest in external access, and more apps or VM based activity on the NAS = more security risk and need for bug fixes etc. I'm interested in using my new build to manage cameras I will have installed at my property and the ability of Surveillance Centre to function or have licence expansion with Xpenology is going to be a key part of that. Alternate for me is that I put security into another small device that i hide somewhere in the house lol. Then my server in server room (Which is not in basement or somewhere hidable) can simply be for work, media etc. I'll likely run up the DSM on my server just to know it can work. RR is new to me and your MSHell incorporating TCRP to continue its growth also was an unknown. Jun popico was barely present when I last chatted with you. I've not done linux scripting or real coding for many years and am not skilled enough to assist else I would be delighted to take this on alongside yourself and other devs to continue the evolution of the xpenology fork from DSM.
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    Hi Peter - congrats on making MShell such a successful tool. I recall when you were first developing it working with you to enhance some aspects by troubleshooting and it (and you) helped me enormously. I'm now building a new server. My existing one I was never able to get the ports and drives recognised fully. It was always lacking some sata or HBA port drives. I went back to HBA only but that limited my total number of drives. I'm now looking at things again and I have a 9305-16i this time which means I need to be able to map more drives than syno products ship with again. 2 questions: 1. How is the port mapping done now and is it working reliably on common hardware for combining sata and HBA? 2. MShell is over top of TRP. What is your view of TRP for allowing updates to DSM and full functionality? MShell helps me get it all going, but i'm unsure if long term I will be stuck having to risk data updating DSM (like a year or 2 years from now). I'm not liking my other options though like TrueNAS... DSM is so easy in comparison.
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    What we don't know is the extent to which Synology are tolerant of our Community activity.
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    Peter are you are running out of ideas for new features and now trying to make this tool as perfect in all ways as you can? Surely it is more important to work on my Sata ports overlapping or blocking my HBA ports? 😁😇😜 I think Pocopico makes a very important point that needs careful examination. I have an idea that may help with build time yet be legally the same as now. Make it so Pat file downloads and begins extraction at the start of the loader launch with a "begin process" button or something so it is in parallel with build decision making and by the time it's needed it is already in the temporary spot it needs to be. This would save some time potentially, and be a solution to use while examining whether there are restrictions in place as Pocopico states that could leave you vulnerable to legal attack Peter. In all instances I think: 1. Protect yourself, 2. Protect yourself Build time is not likely a problem for most of us. How many people are actually rebuilding so often it needs to be optimised to the absolute minimum time? The most optimised and best functioning result is what we want as users yes?
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    Peter I kept trying to get the SATA disks to not overlap or prevent my HBA discs showing up properly and just could not resolve it. In the end I have had a bit of a sook and gone back to disabling the SATA ports. I can add one more disk for now, possibly 3-4 if I work out which HBA and sata ports are not playing well. I plan to buy my way out of the problem if I need to - a 16i replacement HBA or a port expander if I can find a small one that doesn't need PCIe placement and can take power from a molex or sata power plug.
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    A nice summary :). I'm not having any issues with my machine - I had been attempting to offer some direction to the person posting up above with "No disks Found" :). My sole project for now is to try and get my SATA controller and LSI HBA to work together with no port conflicts.
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    That makes sense. I was thinking back to my initial effort working with you on my.sh where my drives were not found and we were suspicious that the mpt3sas was not loading properly (which it wasn't) and coincidentally ixgbe was not working and blocking it. I wondered if the person in this thread "Ulsy" may have the same issue with his HBA not showing his disks.
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    I am requesting assistance with a problem. How do I get all of my onboard SATA ports to not overlap/conflict with my HBA ports? Having all SATA drives connected to my HBA (LS9211-8i) when onboard SATA ports are enabled results in 2 drives not being visible in DSM. It seems some of the ports overlap or conflict. I have been doing a lot of fiddling with the settings in /etc.defaults/synoinfo.conf (maxdisks, esata, internalportcfg and USBportcfg). I don't seem to see any real changes when I alter these variables. I ran DMESG earlier today to see what ports are being recognised and to attempt to resolve this. I *think* I need to correct user_config.json but I do not understand the Diskid, portmap and other variables that I have seen mentioned around this topic. I'd be delighted if someone can explain a solution or offer some tuition/ a link to a tutorial. I've never quite got my head around it in the past. dmesg.txt
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    Peter my Supermicro board uses the x540-T2 and I have no problems with your loader. I'm curious - I wonder if the fellow I wrote to above this comment who has "No disks FOund" has the same problem I did where the incorrect ixgbe module was preventing the mpt3 module loading properly.
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    When I was having this issue it was due to the incorrect driver for my SAS card being called. See the thread in my signature for what I did - it's a bit out of date now but perhaps the device drivers are the issue for yours in the same way.
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    Also Peter.... you speak English very well. Maybe other languages or dialects too in addition to Korean? Please don't ever apologise for not being perfect translating all very technical discussion to English. You do a great job
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    Congratulations on another milestone. I wrote the names incorrectly Peter - I meant to type " maxdisks / internalportcfg / esataportcfg / usbportcfg " I have done some more searching and discovered some people are having issues with the new DSM7 and alterations to these values in synoinfo.conf are not resulting in changes. The examples being quoted relate to the DS918+ and people using the esata port as a internal drive who used to set maxdisks to 5, esata to 0x00, and Internalportcfg to 0x0011 (5 up from 4). Apparently this is no longer working and the esata is always seen as external. On bootup I can hit "x" and enter the command line to alter my sata or USB settings - that's the opportunity to alter user_config.json, but I may try to recompile and use your menu to see if it fixes my issue as well. I think I will need to message wzj304 directly and see if he can talk me through some of it ... then I can come back here with a solution and share it with you to decide if anything worth building into your software is present. Honestly, the simple solution for me is to disable SATA and just use HBA as all my drives are seen. If I need to I buy expander card or a -16i SAS card to have more capacity. The problem solver in me doesn't want to quit though - and I'm positive this would be helpful for other users.
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    I don't read Korean but I think I worked it out Top line is each disk in my system from 1 to x (in my case I have 6 internal SATA ports and 16 internal HBA ports so should I use maxdisks 22?) I'm finding it quite confusing to understand what settings change what feature given the way different people are describing them in different posts. What settings (in what file) determine the number and addressing of: 1. HBA disks 2. onboard SATA disks What settings determine the layout of the UI disk map to ensure all disks are represented and seen?
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    I discovered with 16 disks my esataportcfg and internalportcfg values were overlapping when converted to binary. I decided to edit the setup for 20 total drives with 20 internal ports in case I swap out my 9211-8i for a 9300-16i (would that just work by the way?) as I have assumed the esata ports mentioned here are in fact my onboard SATA controller ports? I'm not sure how to manage the SATA disk side of things though and forgotten where to do that sataportmap and diskid tinkering.
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