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  1. Digging through my old stuff laying around. I have an old AMD X4, but I tried that with a USB and it doesn't find any network card in the unit, so I am writing that machine off as a lost cause. It does work with Windows, but that is just about it. I dug a bit deeper, and found a quite new Asus P8B75-M/CSM motherboard. Now that supports the Intel i3-4150 cpu that I can get relatively cheep, but the network card on the board is listed as a Realtek 8111f. Now looking, it seems that the 8111f is very close to the Realtek 8169 that I have seen posting when google searching. pmcnano -- you said the ASROCK board might work for me.. just to make sure are you talking about this one? http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157475 I also see that this unit looks to have 3 nic interfaces. (2x intel i210 + Realtek RTL8211E) does all 3 work or just the two intel ones? Thankyou for all the help offered. it really is appreciated.
  2. From digging even deeper into the specs on the machine... it looks like the DS3615 does not support any of the SHR functions that the smaller workgroup models do. That would mean that trying to use the drives that I have laying around would be a bit more pointless. (I have 3+3+2+2+2+2+1+1+1+1 so in SHR I would have 15tb + 3tb parity.. on RAID5 the best I could get is 10 by just using everything as a 2tb drive and not put in the 1tb drives at all) I am wondering if there is anything specific about the DS3615 that makes this the unit of choice? like could you by chance make up a version based on say the DS1815+ that is also an intel chipset but does support the SHR share set?? Also, from looking at the chipsets. I see that the DS3615 uses the intel i3 4130 chip. I am wondering if using a 4150 would also work as it turns out to be availible for me and less expensive, just slightly faster and a few more instructions sets too.
  3. I know that quite often I can be as thick at two planks of wood. I am totally lost here. I have downloaded the XPEnoboot.x64 and it contains 3 files. There is an img, iso and vmdk file. My objective is to give this a try and figure it out. I own 3 Synology boxes and just want to make up a 4th box that is just going to basicaly be a big disk that I can use to backup the other units to. My thought was that as I have a mac right now with VMware Fusion, that I could make a VM to test out the process and learn on, then when I am ready and comfortable, go out and buy an inexpensive PC and make up a large drive case unit. They have some really nice 12bay 4u cases with 12 hotswap bays for $250 near me. I take it I will need some intel bases mb with the SATA ports, and add a 2 more 4port sata cards to bring me up to my 12, and the XPnology resides on a USB drive that boots. So by my plan I need to get it working on VMware Fusion first. I can make a VM and boot from the XPEnoboot.iso file and it brings up grub fine with 3 options. All of them boot fine and end up with me with a login prompt: and no idea what goes next. If I run the DSAssistant, all I see are my own 3 Synology boxes and the VM is nowhere to be seen. OK. I figured out that I needed to remove the SCSI disk and add in an IDE disk or two.. now I am seeing the server. So, I will ask part 2, Is there any specific hardware that is required as I will be going out to buy this. I cannot get one of these elusive N40L units are there are none around me and really i just need a lowest cost solution I can put into a 12 bay box and load up with my misc SATA drives to give me a honking big drive.
  4. Well, the problem has been solved. It turns out the solution is not changing the DSM package. To update you need to do the following: Download the DSM4.3 package for a DS212j as that is identical hardware to the DS209 and can run the newer DSM installs Turn on SSH on your DS209 putty into the DS209 login using root cd /etc.defaults vi synoinfo.conf change the first line where it says unique="synology_88f6281_209" to say unique="synology_88f6281_212j" :wq now log into the DS209 web interface and go to control pannel then DSM Update Manual DSM update and and select the DSM4.3 package you downloaded. It will update the machine and will think it is now a DS212j rather than a DS209
  5. What I have read over the past few days, I am sort of confused. There are two parts to the XPEnology process. There is the GNOboot that you load onto a USB stick that will fool the DS Assistant into thinking that the PC is acutally one of the DS3612xs devices. This part I am not really interested in as the box that I want to install into is not anywhere close to a DS3612xs The second part is where I am. As everyone has different pieces of hardware, and Synology only uses some specific pieces, to get the DSM to work on your bit if kit, you may need to modify the DSM package from what Synology released. Things like plug in hardware drivers. But the DS Assistant checks the DSM .pat file before it sends it off to the NAS to make sure it is not corrupted. So there must be some way to take the .pat file and change it then re-pack it so that DS Assistant is happy to send it off. If I can get the method on how this is done, then I can take a .pat file for a DS211j (that is the exact same hardware except it has a different name) and change the hardware check inside of it to say DS209 and rebuild a new .pat file. DS Assistant will be happy that it is sending the correct .pat file to the correct hardware and that the file it not corrupted and I get DSM5 on my DS209
  6. I am not very good with searches and currently my head is spinning getting this far. But I am wondering if this can be a solution to my problem. I have a Synology DS209 that supports up to DSM 4.2. It is now too old to get any additional support from Synology. Yes it's an underpowered box by most standards, but it is inexpensive and great to test out on. From what I have read, the XPEnology is basically loading a modified DSM onto a different computer. Is there any instructions on how to build a new build of say DSM4.3 or DSM5 onto a DS209 box. From the hardware side it is identical to the DS211j and that is supported by DSM5, so I know it should work. My reason for asking. I have a DS412+ and DS1812+ that will be out of support in the next release I believe. If I can get DSM5 working on my DS209, then logic says my support for the big NAS boxes is going to be doable as well. Sorry if this has been discussed to the hilt already.. Any links to where to start looking would be greatly appreciated. Matt.
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