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Most of what you write I am aware of (but thanks for pointing it out ). I honestly thought you could add a smaller drive later on tho. But thinking about it, it makes perfect sense. I'll buy a couple of larger drives I guess thanks a lot for then help guys and gals

I have found the problem (smaller disk that the ones installed) but i promised to just attach the output from fdisk.

Hi you are right. The disks are smaller than the others. I didn't actually think this would be a problem as im adding and not replacing discs. I will find some larger disks and try again (either that or rebuild volume where those discs are included)

Im attempting to add a 5 and 6 disk to my 918+ on DSM DSM 6.2.3-25426 Update 2 Add disk is grayed out, does 918 not support more than 4 disks per volume. I have tried to make a new volume with the extra 2 disk, that no problem. But i was hoping to change from SHR to SHR-2 and add the 2 extra disks to my primary volume.

I will read what you linked to.. The card is a Marvell 88SE9215 4xSATA 3 which shouldn't be a multiplexed card. How does it imply that one port is multiplexed and not 2ports? (I am aware multiplexed ports are not supported). You say 4 out of 8 ports should be working (i have 4 disks attached to the motherboard) ? You have lost me here. The 4 onboard are working. Are you implying here that if the card attached is multiplexed non of the "new" ports would work as i already have 4 working ports? If this is the case, it makes no sense to me. I would expect 2 of the new ports to work. I'm sorry i didn't attach the make and model of the card in the first post. Do you need more info about my system? I did a lsusb -v and got this 0001:01:00.0 Class 0000: Device 1b4b:9215 (rev ff) (prog-if ff) !!! Unknown header type 7f I can see this comes up as a Marvell, so i guess this could be my card. Does this mean no drives are loaded? But then again half my HDD's are shifted 4 ports, so it has detected something somewhere?

Hi I have installed a Sata extension card. But i can't seem to get it to detect my drives connected to the new card. How ever it has detected the card My drives on the internal 2 controllers are now called 1+2 and 7+8. But drives connected to the extra card doesn't show up. I run "6.2.3-25426 Update 2" I think i need to tinker with the sata_args? Is this a correct assumption? It is currecntly set to "set sata_args='SataPortMap=4'"