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Okay, so I took the EXTRA.LZMA from the link you sent and replaced the one in Jun's Loader v1.03b DS3617xs. Once again, i get no network at all. I'm certain that I'm doing this all wrong. I'll try unpacking the EXTRA.LZMA file and manually adding the driver. Other than than, I'm once again - stuck

UPDATE: Manually trying to load the ARCMSR.KO module returns: root@xpen01:/usr/lib/modules# insmod arcmsr.ko insmod: ERROR: could not insert module arcmsr.ko: Invalid module format ...crap The serial console remained connected and i caught this: [ 441.091774] arcmsr: version magic '3.10.102 SMP mod_unload ' should be '3.10.105 SMP mod_unload ' [ 441.091774] arcmsr: version magic '3.10.102 SMP mod_unload ' should be '3.10.105 SMP mod_unload ' So, the module is not compatible with the kernel in the synoboot image? Unsure where to go from here.

So, I am working with the image file: Jun's Loader v1.03b DS3617xs Synoboot_3617.zip | 19.5 MB | MD5 = 94d18efbc349da2bd45d6e57adabc54f I selected it because i saw in a table that it supports 24 drive, which i have. This bootloader brings the system online without issue - except that it wont see the ARECA card or its 24 drives. Then, using OSFMount, I mounted the BIN file and opened the 2nd partition, saw the EXTRA.LZMA file and replaced it with this one: extra.lzma for ds3617 v4.8 http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=82063388171933855891 This boots, but does not start the network. Connecting to the serial port console, I see only loopback when I type IFCONFIG: ifconfig lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) DiskStation> I have read that perhaps I should return to the unmodified SYNOBOOT.BIN image and them attempt to manually start the card. What follows is the boot sequence for the STANDARD - UNALTERED Synoboot_ds3617 image: I'll start messing with this one and try to unpack the contents of the extra.lzma you linked me to. GNU GRUB version 2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.14 +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |*DS3617xs 6.2 Baremetal with Jun's Mod v1.03b | | DS3617xs 6.2 Baremetal with Jun's Mod v1.03b Reinstall | | DS3617xs 6.2 VMWare/ESXI with Jun's Mod v1.03b | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Use the ^ and v keys to select which entry is highlighted. Press enter to boot the selected OS, `e' to edit the commands before booting or `c' for a command-line. The highlighted entry will be executed automatically in 0s. patching file etc/rc patching file etc/synoinfo.conf patching file linuxrc.syno patching file usr/sbin/init.post START /linuxrc.syno Insert Marvell 1475 SATA controller driver Insert basic USB modules... :: Loading module usb-common ... [ OK ] :: Loading module usbcore ... [ OK ] :: Loading module ehci-hcd ... [ OK ] :: Loading module ehci-pci ... [ OK ] :: Loading module ohci-hcd ... [ OK ] :: Loading module uhci-hcd ... [ OK ] :: Loading module xhci-hcd ... [ OK ] :: Loading module usb-storage ... [ OK ] :: Loading module BusLogic ... [ OK ] :: Loading module vmw_pvscsi ... [ OK ] :: Loading module megaraid_mm ... [ OK ] :: Loading module megaraid_mbox ... [ OK ] :: Loading module megaraid ... [ OK ] :: Loading module scsi_transport_spi ... [ OK ] :: Loading module mptbase ... [ OK ] :: Loading module mptscsih ... [ OK ] :: Loading module mptspi ... [ OK ] :: Loading module mptsas ... [ OK ] :: Loading module mptctl ... [ OK ] :: Loading module megaraid_sas ... [ OK ] :: Loading module mpt2sas ... [ OK ] :: Loading module mpt3sas ... [ OK ] Insert net driver(Mindspeed only)... Starting /usr/syno/bin/synocfgen... /usr/syno/bin/synocfgen returns 0 All disk ready or timeout execeed Partition Version=8 /sbin/e2fsck exists, checking /dev/md0... /sbin/e2fsck -pvf returns 0 Mounting /dev/md0 /tmpRoot ------------upgrade Begin upgrade procedure No upgrade file exists End upgrade procedure ============upgrade Exit on error [7] Version number not match... Sat Jul 25 19:18:51 UTC 2020 /dev/md0 /tmpRoot ext4 rw,relatime,journal_checksum,data=ordered 0 0 none /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0 sys /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0 none /dev devtmpfs rw,relatime,size=16470508k,nr_inodes=4117627,mode=755 0 0 proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0 linuxrc.syno failed on 7 starting pid 4412, tty '': '/etc/rc' :: Starting /etc/rc :: Mounting procfs ... [ OK ] :: Mounting tmpfs ... [ OK ] :: Mounting devtmpfs ... [ OK ] :: Mounting devpts ... [ OK ] :: Mounting sysfs ... [ OK ] rc: Use all internal disk as swap. /etc/rc: line 108: /usr/syno/bin/synodiskpathparse: not found /etc/rc: line 108: awk: not found rc: Failed to parse partition sda2 :: Loading module sg ... [ OK ] :: Loading module mdio ... [ OK ] :: Loading module fat ... [ OK ] :: Loading module vfat ... [ OK ] :: Loading module ip_tunnel ... [ OK ] :: Loading module vxlan ... [ OK ] :: Loading module dca ... [ OK ] :: Loading module e1000e ... [ OK ] :: Loading module i2c-algo-bit ... [ OK ] :: Loading module igb ... [ OK ] :: Loading module ixgbe ... [ OK ] :: Loading module r8168 ... [ OK ] :: Loading module libcrc32c ... [ OK ] :: Loading module mii ... [ OK ] :: Loading module libphy ... [ OK ] :: Loading module atl1 ... [ OK ] :: Loading module atl1e ... [ OK ] :: Loading module atl1c ... [ OK ] :: Loading module alx ... [ OK ] :: Loading module uio ... [ OK ] :: Loading module ipg ... [ OK ] :: Loading module jme ... [ OK ] :: Loading module skge ... [ OK ] :: Loading module sky2 ... [ OK ] :: Loading module ptp_pch ... [ OK ] :: Loading module pch_gbe ... [ OK ] :: Loading module qla3xxx ... [ OK ] :: Loading module qlcnic ... [ OK ] :: Loading module qlge ... [ OK ] :: Loading module netxen_nic ... [ OK ] :: Loading module sfc ... [ OK ] :: Loading module e1000 ... [ OK ] :: Loading module pcnet32 ... [ OK ] :: Loading module vmxnet3 ... [ OK ] :: Loading module bnx2 ... [ OK ] :: Loading module bnx2x ... [ OK ] :: Loading module cnic ... [FAILED] :: Loading module r8169 ... [ OK ] :: Loading module tg3 ... [ OK ] :: Loading module usbnet ... [ OK ] :: Loading module ax88179_178a ... [ OK ] :: Loading module button ... [ OK ] :: Loading module synobios ... [ OK ] udhcpc (v1.16.1) started udhcpc (v1.16.1) started udhcpc (v1.16.1) started udhcpc (v1.16.1) started eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:32:2C:A6:03 inet addr:169.254.145.210 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:914 (914.0 B) Interrupt:18 Memory:c8200000-c8220000 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:F3:EF:2A:BF UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) Interrupt:19 Memory:c8220000-c8240000 eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 68:05:CA:19:D6:32 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) eth3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 68:05:CA:19:D6:33 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) :: Starting syslogd ... [ OK ] :: Starting scemd :: Starting services in background Starting findhostd in flash_rd... Starting services in flash_rd... Running /usr/syno/etc/rc.d/J01httpd.sh... Starting httpd:80 in flash_rd... Starting httpd:5000 in flash_rd... Running /usr/syno/etc/rc.d/J03ssdpd.sh... /usr/bin/minissdpd -i eth0 -i eth1 -i eth2 -i eth3 (15): upnp:rootdevice (51): uuid:upnp_SynologyNAS-0011322ca603::upnp:rootdevice (60): Synology/synology_broadwell_3617xs/6.2-23739/169.254.145.210 (48): http://169.254.145.210:5000/description-eth0.xml Connected. done. /usr/syno/bin/reg_ssdp_service 169.254.145.210 0011322ca603 6.2-23739 synology_broadwell_3617xs eth0 eth1 not RUNNING (15): upnp:rootdevice (51): uuid:upnp_SynologyNAS-6805ca19d632::upnp:rootdevice (59): Synology/synology_broadwell_3617xs/6.2-23739/192.168.11.146 (47): http://192.168.11.146:5000/description-eth2.xml Connected. done. /usr/syno/bin/reg_ssdp_service 192.168.11.146 6805ca19d632 6.2-23739 synology_broadwell_3617xs eth2 (15): upnp:rootdevice (51): uuid:upnp_SynologyNAS-6805ca19d633::upnp:rootdevice (59): Synology/synology_broadwell_3617xs/6.2-23739/192.168.11.104 (47): http://192.168.11.104:5000/description-eth3.xml Connected. done. /usr/syno/bin/reg_ssdp_service 192.168.11.104 6805ca19d633 6.2-23739 synology_broadwell_3617xs eth3 Running /usr/syno/etc/rc.d/J04synoagentregisterd.sh... Starting synoagentregisterd... Running /usr/syno/etc/rc.d/J30DisableNCQ.sh... Running /usr/syno/etc/rc.d/J80ADTFanControl.sh... Running /usr/syno/etc/rc.d/J98nbnsd.sh... Starting nbnsd... Running /usr/syno/etc/rc.d/J99avahi.sh... Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon cname_load_conf failed:/var/tmp/nginx/avahi-aliases.conf :: Loading module hid ... [ OK ] :: Loading module usbhid ... [ OK ] ============ Date ============ Sat Jul 25 19:19 Sat Jul 25 19:19:06 2020 DiskStation login:

AH YES! okay - thanks

So, I did get the server up and running before i posted this. That's how I knew it wasn't seeing the 24 drives on the ARECA controller. The hardware I mentioned previously as being ASUS, but to be specific, this is built like so: Motherboard: ASUS DSBF-D RAM: 32GB CPU: Dual Xeons (6 cores each.) CONTROLLER: ARECA 1280 ML (ver C) There is also an SSD on the SATA port on the motherboard. It always sees that drive and is fine. The link you sent is to a forum and i have seen that area and read much of it. Do I just simply take the EXTRA.LZMA file and replace the one in the BIN image using OSFMOUNT? I ask because the last time I replaced an "extra.lzma" file, it just hung - i let it stay hung overnight too and still frozen in the morning. What is the process? Also, how can i see the boot process on the server console? This synboboot just makes a console screen that does nothing. I would like to have more use out of the console than that.

I have spent 5 hours learning about the various ways that people install Xpenology and i have seen that ARECA Controllers are (or were) supported (or maybe drivers were provided in an extral.zma file?) Getting right to the point... I'm probably an idiot for not understanding this but HOW do I install a version of Xpenology that will support an ARECA 1200 series SATA card?! I need about a half-pound of Advil and a few shots of vodka at this point.