SnowDrifter

Thanks for the double check! Yeah I'm using the oculink to sata cable. Was plug and play with no configuration / other drivers needed

It's officially time I set up an SSD cache. However, my motherboard is small, and all my hot swap bays are full. I've poked at this in the past, but ended up saving it for another day because of reasons. But, now I'm set to go. So here's what I'm working with: - DSM 6.2.3U3, DS918+ - Jun 1.04b w/ extended driver pack - Asrock Rack C246WSI (itx, intel)- I have no more native sata slots free -- Board has a single pcie slot (occupied by nic), and a single M.2 slot that can operate in pcie or sata mode. If in sata, then it disables sata_1 on the board -- The m.2 slot is a shortie - It's my understanding that xpen doesn't like port multipliers, so I need a controller that has full sata connections So I need to add some more sata interfaces. My case is small, *very* small. It's a compact build. But it has room for 4 2.5" drives internally. My plan is this: - m.2 extension cable so I can then mount an m.2 sata controller where convenient, and connect drives from there Products - Sata extension https://www.walmart.com/ip/seort/749278297 - Sata controller https://www.walmart.com/ip/seort/229989489 -- Controller is a JBM585 -- Specs found here https://www.jmicron.com/products/list/15 -- It's my understanding that this is a non-port-multiplying controller Questions/concerns - Would this hardware work? If not, is there a more appropriate controller? - I'm aware of the kernel bug, where if an NVME attached drive hangs doing garbage collect or something, it crashes the whole volume. Theoretically, this should not happen on sata devices going through a controller, correct? - This will likely be configured as a read cache, as opposed to r/w. But above concern still applies

That was it, chief. Thanks!!

cat /usr/syno/etc/codec/activation.conf shows no such file or directory Now the questions is... How to fix that

Getting some 4k content, and noticing that when set to 1080p high, it has to stop and buffer contantly. Task manager indicates ~60-80% cpu usage. HW transcoding is enabled in plex. Running: baremetal - i3 9100 - asrock rack c246 wsi - 6.2.3 U3 w/ Jun's 1.4b - DS918+ and driver extension Plex seems to indicate transcoding is taking place on hardware and cd/dev/dri ls indicates card0 + renderD128 present in the folder Turning off hw acceleration + transcoding in plex yields no change in performance or CPU usage.

Yep can confirm. Had an unusual uptick in failed login attempts. Reminder to: - Disable default admin account - Carefully prune permissions - Enforce strong passwords - Enable login blocking + geographic blacklists - Use 2fa, especially on admin accounts - Have another backup of your data

Dude....... Couldn't tell you how many times I looked at that and missed the obvious. Yeeeesh. It's fixed and proper now. Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to avoid eye contact and pretend this never happened. Thanks for the second set of eyes

Only mac address 1 is accurately reflected 2,3,4 seem to be randomly generated / assigned on each boot

if serial --port=0x3F8 --speed=115200;then set has_serial=true terminal_input --append serial terminal_output --append serial else clear fi terminal_input --append console terminal_output --append console if [ x"${grub_platform}" = xefi ]; then insmod efi_gop insmod efi_uga else insmod vbe fi set extra_initrd="extra.lzma" set info="info.txt" set vid=0x090c set pid=0x1000 set sn=18A0PDN352201 set mac1=d05099d51774 set mac2=d05099d51775 set mac2=0cc47a1de5a4 set mac4=0cc47a1de5a5 set rootdev=/dev/md0 set netif_num=2 #set extra_args_918='earlycon=uart8250,io,0x3f8,115200n8 earlyprintk loglevel=15 memmap=0x1000$223515000' set extra_args_918='' set common_args_918='syno_hdd_powerup_seq=1 HddHotplug=1 syno_hw_version=DS918+ vender_format_version=2 console=ttyS0,115200n8 withefi elevator=elevator quiet syno_hdd_detect=0 syno_port_thaw=1' #for testing on VM set sata_args='SataPortMap=6' set default='0' set timeout='1' set fallback='1' if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then load_env if [ -n "$saved_entry" ]; then set default="${saved_entry}" fi fi VERSION="with Jun's Mod v1.04b" search --file -s /bzImage function savedefault { if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then saved_entry="${chosen}" save_env saved_entry fi } function do_option { if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then eval "set value=\"\$$1\"" echo "current $1: $value"; return; fi set key=$1 shift set $key="$*" if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then save_env $key fi } function vid { do_option vid $@; } function pid { do_option pid $@; } function sn { do_option sn $@; } function mac1 { do_option mac1 $@; } function mac2 { do_option mac2 $@; } function mac3 { do_option mac3 $@; } function mac4 { do_option mac4 $@; } function rootdev { do_option rootdev $@; } function append { do_option extra_args_918 $@; } function vidpid { if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then echo "usage: vidpid 0xVVVV 0xPPPP"; return; fi set usb_args="vid=$1 pid=$2" if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then save_env usb_args fi } function showtips { if [ -n "$has_serial" ]; then terminal_output --remove serial fi echo "Screen will stop updating shortly, please open http://find.synology.com to continue." echo echo if [ -n "$has_serial" ]; then terminal_output --append serial fi } function loadinitrd { if [ -s $img/$info ]; then if [ -n "$has_serial" ]; then terminal_output --remove serial fi cat $img/$info if [ -n "$has_serial" ]; then terminal_output --append serial fi fi # if [ -s $img/$extra_initrd ]; then # initrd $img/rd.gz $img/$extra_initrd # else # initrd $img/rd.gz # fi } function common_add_option { eval "set value=\"\$$1\"" if [ -z $value ]; then return 1; fi set common_args="$common_args $1=$value" } function common_add_option_ex { eval "set value=\"\$$1\"" if [ -z $value ]; then return 1; fi set common_args="$common_args $2=$value" } function loadlinux { set model=$1 set bootdev=$2 shift 2 if [ -n $vid -a -n $pid ]; then set usb_args="vid=$vid pid=$pid" fi eval "set common_args=\"\$common_args_$model\"" eval "set extra_args=\"\$extra_args_$model\"" eval "set bootdev_args=\"\$${bootdev}_args\"" common_add_option_ex rootdev root common_add_option sn if common_add_option mac1; then set netif_num=1; fi if common_add_option mac2; then set netif_num=2; fi if common_add_option mac3; then set netif_num=3; fi if common_add_option mac4; then set netif_num=4; fi common_add_option netif_num if [ -z $zImage ]; then set zImage=bzImage fi linux $img/$zImage $common_args $bootdev_args $extra_args $@ } menuentry "DS918+ 6.2.1/6.2 Baremetal $VERSION" --class os { set img= savedefault loadlinux 918 usb loadinitrd showtips } menuentry "DS918+ 6.2.1/6.2 Baremetal $VERSION Reinstall" --class os { set img= loadlinux 918 usb mfg loadinitrd showtips } menuentry "DS918+ 6.2.1/6.2 VMWare/ESXI $VERSION" --class os { set img= savedefault loadlinux 918 sata loadinitrd showtips }

Bare metal. DSM 6.2.3 U3 Would you clarify what you mean by pictures of config?

Unfortunately no. I'm rather stumped at the issue

Should be done later today then I can go digging. What all am I looking for?

It's assigned a new one on every boot. Something funky. swapped a drive to a larger one so it's in limbo to 3-4 days but once that's done I'll check back in. Any notes on what I would be checking for in the bios? Asrock rack board if that's pertinent

Yeah pretty much. SSD, SSDs are being gobbled up en masse. If the coin flops, prices will return to normal. If not, manufacturers will need to spool up production. Figure we'll know either way in ~2yrs

@IG-88 any input on this one?

Nothing from haveibeenpwned / dashlane Will change to be on the safe side though Standard reminder to never reuse passwords or derivatives of

Less than a gig That's normal behavior on windows machine. If you need to reformat, open command prompt type diskpart listdisk select disk X attributes disk clear readonly clean create partition primary select partition 1 active format fs=ntfs label=new assign That'll get it back and readable by windows. Can reformat and image over as needed

Declared the actual mac address of my NIC in the grub cfg Network card works as expected otherwise. But mac address in network matches neither my config, nor the address printed on the card. A reboot of the machine will result in a different, seemingly randomly assigned mac address. Jun 1.4b have the extended driver pack 918+ Intel i3-9100 DSM 6.2.3 update 3 Intel X540-T2 Network interfaces were enabled in synoinf.conf and all 4 show up fine (2x onboard, 2x nic) within DSM. It's just this randomly assigned mac address issue I can't figure out

Sorry to hear about your troubles. While I don't have anything to contribute to a fix(Haven't been through this myself), I can at least help shed some light on best update practices going forward, and hopefully alleviate some of the 'update anxiety' 1. You can use win32diskimager to clone out your working thumb drive after booting into DSM and setting it up. If anything should come up, you can easily flash that to a different thumb drive. Good to keep versions of your configs with this. I have version fro 6.2.2, 6.2.3, with and without extra driver files, and every time I make a change to the config 2. You should have an extra drive laying around. Of some sort. Could be old, new, on it's last legs, ssd, hdd, etc. Doesn't matter. More on that below 3. With versioned bootable thumb drives, and that extra drive, if you want to test if an update will work, you can flash your current config to a new thumb drive (remember to change PID / VID), shut down your machine, REMOVE ALL YOUR DRIVES, install that spare test drive, set up your machine with a test DSM config, and try to update to your desired target. If it fails, you now have a means of either debugging or refusing an update without affecting your data, OR if the update goes through and works, you have a high likelihood of the update going through on your production configuration. As a point of note, when you reinstall your production drives, it doesn't matter which order you put them in. The system is software raid, with relevant info stored on the drive, it's not tethered to a slot. With that said, labeling your slots with info like drive model, serial, installed date, and slot number does make it relatively easy to keep track of. 4. Reminder to maintain backups of some variety. DSM is pretty stable, but remember that we are running it in unsupported configurations. Good backup practices are the 3-2-1 rule: 3 copies of data, 2 of which are backups, 1 of which is stored off site (cloud, friends house, bank box, etc etc). You shouldn't incur data loss in the event of a software failure, hardware failure, failed update, etc. An external hard drive plugged in running hyper backup is better than nothing, but won't protect against a spilled drink / flood / fire / power surge / whatever. But either way, your nas shouldn't be your end all be all to backups and data. It's just a piece of it. Of note, then 3-2-1 rule is just a general guideline. If you have critically important stuff that you absolutely cannot afford to lose under any condition, you really should have more copies at multiple offsite locations. 5. Just breaking this up so it's not huge paragraphs... A point of note regarding backups: Raid is not a backup. Raid provides uptime such that if you have a drive failure, you're less likely to incur an interruption to your workflow, and less likely you'll need to restore from a backup, but it IS NOT a backup in and of itself. Hardware fails, arrays crash, rebuilds go sideways. SHR1/2 ONLY gives you machine uptime and SOME protection against a DRIVE failure. Apologies if I'm repeating myself, but I really want to hammer that point home.

How I have mine set up: uPnP disabled on router Port forward only things I use to the nas In the nas: Then firewall setting to allow all LAN Then firewall setting to only allow traffic from US/CA Then firewall setting to block all. Behavior is such that If lan traffic, allow Elseif US/CA, allow Else block all Other points: Disable default admin account Enforce strong passwords Enable blocking of repeated login attemps Non-admin users should have permissions stripped so they only have access to required folders / applications Dockers are great Enable 2fa, particularly for admin accounts

Nice thanks Got them pre set. Now if the mail would hurry up! Also still uncertain about the bonding behavior

Also nothing that bonding 1gbe is helpful if I'm say... Transferring to/from the nas, and the nas is doing anything out to the internet. Plex stream, cloud backup, torrent.. yadda yadda. Single 1gbe connection is pretty uber bottleneck. It'd be cool to have a 10gig connection direct to my computer + 1g for whatever else would need it outside (gigabit internet) but again... Not sure how it's handled within the system and if having a goofy bond setup like that would be more detrimental than helpful. In a perfect world, I'd have 3... 10gbe to my computer 1gbe to the switch to handle other machines on the network (primarily streaming / smaller file syncs) 1gbe to the router for going out to the internet. Then theoretically, any bottlenecks would be the result of my hardware, and not interfaces. But if that would work remains a mystery

Apologies. Missed the notification Can pick any XYZ ddns provider. I use google for mine as I have other services through them. Have also use noip before. You'll set that up in control panel > external access > DDNS From there, if you right click in file station > share, you'll be given an address similar to http://mynas.ddns.net:5000/sharing/l9jfJ2xhg And that's pretty much it. Make sure you have appropriate port forwarding rules on your router

This is pretty much where I'm at and where the question stems from

Showing up on your router? Tried other ethernet ports? mac address set appropriately in your grub file?