PF62
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Those users reporting hibernation is working might be using Marvell controllers that is fully supported by the vendor.
Hibernation works for me with DSM 5 on an HP N54L if that helps.
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It will not be hibernating because lots of packages stop it hibernating.
If you shut down all the packages, it should hibernate. By turning them on one at a time, you can then experiment to find out which packages stop it hibernating.
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To be clear, I do not use the script. The USB stick is mounted all the time, and DSM5 will hibernate with it mounted. It will also WOL/sleep with it mounted.
From experimenting, it seems that it is the packages that prevent it hibernating, not a USB stick being mounted. From Googling, hibernating, or lack of, seems to be a general issue with Synology, not an issue specific to Xpenology or DSM5 - http://www.synology.com/en-us/support/faq/568
Why not do as I did/am still doing, try stopping all the packages and see if it hibernates. If it does, turn them back on one at a time to see which cause a problem. For me Sickbeard seems to be a problem, so I am experimenting with setting up a schedule to run it, so instead of it searching every xx minutes, I stop that service, start it on every xx minutes for it to do its stuff, and then stop it again. So far that looks promising. It still finds and feeds things to SABnzdb, but the machine hibernates when it isn't doing so.
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An update, Sickbeard Piratebay seems to allow it to hibernate some times, and not others.
100% of the time when Sickbeard is off, but Plex and SABnzbd are running (with the USB disk mounted), it does hibernate. But when Sickbeard is running, it is quite hit and miss whether it will hibernate.
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To demonstrate that it will hibernate with the USB drive mounted -
The hibernation time is set for 10 minutes, the N54L was rebooted and left with the disks mounted for 20 minutes, and then the interface opened using Synology Assistant to read the logs.
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And does it wake on lan?
Yes (obviously I edited the MAC address) and followed this guide - http://xpenology.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=665
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Just registered to firstly say a really big thanks to everyone involved in making this work. I have it installed on a N54L, and the process was simpler than I could have hoped for.
Secondly I wanted to share my experiences of hibernation.
Initially I could not get the machine to hibernate, so I went through the process of shutting down every package so it was just the 'bare bones' to see if it would hibernate. It did. Although it has been mentioned that the machine will not hibernate with a USB stick mounted, I found this not to be the case.
The next stage was starting packages one at a time, to see which had an impact on hibernation. The main three packages I needed to run were Plex, Sickbeard, and SABnzbd. I found that Plex was fine, using the tips to turn off automatic updating, and turning off all the log files. However I have not yet tried it logged into myplex.
Sickbeard and SABnzbd were more problematic, no matter if I set them not to scan for a couple of hours, they still kept the N54L awake. A bit of googling turned up this - http://www.mimimi.be/2012/11/sickbeard-preventing-synology-ds213-to.html which looked interesting.
I created another partition on the USB stick used to boot the N54L, and redirected the logs to folders on there. For SABnzbd that was fine, and it would now hibernate, but it still didn't work for Sickbeard. So I tried it with the custom version of Sickbeard, Sickbeard Piratebay, and bingo the N54L now hibernates.
Trial of Nanoboot (4493) - 5.0.3.1
in DSM 5.2 and earlier (Legacy)
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I found the answer (eventually) by using the BIOS mentioned in the comments section here -http://www.xpenology.nl/hp-n40l-n54l-bios-modificatie/#comments (http://www.share-online.biz/dl/CQTJ55XMZ4DY/free/) and then adjusting the settings to the same as mentioned above at - http://terfmop.co.uk/blog/2013/07/31/allow-hot-plug-sata-and-5th-sata-port-full-speed-on-hp-n54l-proliant-microserver/