[DSM 6.2.3-25426]

- Outcome of the update: SUCCESSFUL
- DSM version prior update: DSM 6.2.3-25423
- Loader version and model: Jun's v1.04b - DS918+
- Using custom extra.lzma: YES - by IG-88 v0.10
- Installation type: BAREMETAL - SOYO SY-J3455 
- Additional Comments: Reboot Required

[Guide to Native Drivers: DSM 6.2.1 on DS918]

On 5/11/2020 at 1:44 AM, IG-88 said:

 

the driver for 9125 should have nothing to do with a extra.lzma, ahci is fixed part of the kernel, 918+ uses kernel 4.4.59

maybe this is more convincing then my word?

https://linux-hardware.org/index.php?id=pci:1b4b-9125-1b4b-9125

 

as long as the system (kernel) starts it should detect and use a 9125 with the ahci driver

i dont think anything will change if you replace a 9125 with a 9215 controller  (beside having 4 sata ports on one pcie lane instead of two)

 

miraculous things happen. the 9215 card is accept by the system immediately. installation process perfectly. weird

[DSM 7 Preview Program Announced]

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[DSM 6.2.3-25423 - Recalled on May 13]

- Outcome of the update:  UNSUCCESSFUL

- DSM version prior update: DSM 6.2.2-24922 Update 6

- Loader version and model: JUN'S LOADER v1.04b - DS918+

- Using custom extra.lzma: Yes - extra.lzma from real3x

- Installation type: BAREMETAL - SOYO SY-J3455 - 4GB DDR3

- Additional comment: reboot Could not find server

[Guide to Native Drivers: DSM 6.2.1 on DS918]

5 minutes ago, flyride said:

I was able to find a picture of a 88SE9215 chip on a DS918+ motherboard.  I now realize you may have referred to the deliberately incomplete "reference hardware" block at the top of the post, which isn't really the point (did you even open the spreadsheet?) Anyway, Synology does not publish their hardware specs and any factual information comes from postings on the Internet.  I'm not sure where the reference to the 9125 chip came from at the time, but I will update the reference hardware block accordingly. Thank you for contributing to our collective knowledge on the subject.

Yes, I mean the "reference hardware" block post may be can more accurate. I just think if we know the real one hardware specs, There may be some reference.

And I found out real one use WGI211AT chip for LAN ( Intel I211?)

 

 

 

[Guide to Native Drivers: DSM 6.2.1 on DS918]

7 minutes ago, IG-88 said:

even the 88SE9125 is ahci compatible and should work ootb with dsm as ahci is part of the dsm kernel

i'd guess there are other problems with your system

maybe open a new case in the hardware section?

 

Thanks for your reply ! Ye~! Why not . I had several problems Even though I read all the topics about how to install/update 6.2.x &  your topice "Driver extension series" , repalce the extra.lzma again & again, not working.  

 

now, I'm waiting for 88SE9215 card arrive, make some test, then discuss with everyone.

[DSM 6.2 Loader]

On 11/12/2018 at 4:46 PM, fenguoerbian said:

Hi, I've spent several days on this HW transcoding problem with asrock j3455-itx motherboard. I've read all the post of this thread and some other related threads in this forum. Gotta say this might be a general problem with this motherboard. Basically, it's the i915 driver's problem and it can be searched(/dev/dri missing, i915 driver problem) from other linux forums. Finally I kind of found a way to make /dev/dri appear when install DS918+ DSM 6.2 using j3455-itx. Here is my method(But to be knoest, the performance is poor.)

 

1. My method only work on 1.03a2 + extra.lzma_v0.5(I'm not sure whether the extra.lzma is necessary but I included it when making my usb boot)

    I tested that my method won't work in 1.04b, maybe because the updated i915 driver as @jun stated.

2. When you modify the grub.cfg, changing the vid/pid/SN/MAC, also add a new arg 'i915.alpha_support=1' in the line 'set comon_args_918 = xxx', so it looks like:

 

set common_args_918='syno_hdd_powerup_seq=1 HddHotplug=0 syno_hw_version=DS918+ vender_format_version=2 console=ttyS0,115200n8 withefi elevator=elevator quiet syno_hdd_detect=0 syno_port_thaw=1 i915.alpha_support=1'

 

Install the system(I never tried migratiion) and then the /dev/dri appears and HW transcoding works fine in video station if you also have real SN/MAC. (But the performance is quite poor. I've a 35 min 4K h264 movie. For offling hw transcoding to medium quality, it says about 3 hours to finish. But SW transcoding saied 1hr to finish....sign...)

 

Another thing: DSM 6.2 seems quite slow than DSM 6.1. When I tried in install DSM 6.2, after the screen said 'find.synology.com', it took 5min for DS assistant to find my nas, and 10 min to finish install the DSM. Then the machine reboot, another 6 min before DS assistant finds the ip of my nas.  While for installing DSM 6.1, normally it only took 2 min to finish each step.

 

Besides that, in 6.2, my package center seems different from the others. Because I only got the category 'all' in the left panel,  while from the picture I browsed from the internet, there should be categories like 'recommended', 'back up', 'utility'....

 

Last but not least, shutdown is not working for my 6.2. I have to use the shutdown command in command line to turn off my nas.

 

At first I thought this motherborad would be perfect for dsm 6.2 and ds918+ since its specification is quite close to the genuine one. But now I stayed at DS916+ and DS6.1.7.
 

quite right! same problem as you!

 

 

[Guide to Native Drivers: DSM 6.2.1 on DS918]

the real 918+ is use 88SE9215 SATA controller , Not the 88SE9125. I trust  your post , and bought a 88SE9125 card. No Disk found! then I check out the real 918+ Motherboard findout 88SE9215 is the native chip up there.