Hello Xpenology gurus.... I'm relatively new to Xpenology and only just starting to learn more about it. There's a lot of information around here and that's so much appreciated. I was able to successfully experiment with Xpenology as a KVM virtual machine using Jun's loader 1.02b. So, I decided to try it on real hardware; specifically a Supermicro 825, with X8DTU-F + 2x L5640, 128GB RAM, and a AOC-USAS2 controller, which is a LSI SAS2008 based controller, and 8x HGST SAS 3TB drives. Booting this hardware with CentOS-7, I see all the hardware no problem.
However, when I boot Jun's loader 1.02b for DS3617xs with a USB drive, I get the web setup page, but when I try to proceed to do the setup, it only sees 6 of the 8 hard drives. Specifically, it says:
"All data on the hard disk(s) 7 8 9 10 11 12 will be removed during installation. Are you sure you want to proceed?"
If I proceed with the setup, it proceeds as normal and downloads DSM and sets up the 3 partitions on each of the 6 drives. These 6 drives correspond to port 0,1,2,3 and 4,5. The ones that are not seen are in the last 2 ports 6 and 7.
So, for one, I think the mptsas2 driver for the LSI SAS 2008 chipset must be working, since all 8 drives are connected to the same controller. I was reading:
And learned about the SataPortMap parameter and thought maybe that has something to do with it? Not sure, but thought it would be worth a try. Since it is a single controller with 8 ports, I set SataPortMap=8 in the grub.cfg file (there was a line where it was set as SataPortMap=1, and I changed that). Not sure if I'm doing the right thing, nor do I know if this is even related to the issue.
Can anyone please advise? Or, if there's something I missed from reading these forums and elsewhere online, sending me a RTFM with a link would also be appreciated.
Thanks in advanced for any help...