Hello Andrewcee,
Thanks for the description. A few days ago, I also managed to make a brick of it. I downloaded a DS6.0 from the net which was in principle DS1010 compatible. Well, it was not. The device no longer came back online.
But luckily the factory DMS5.2 has some internal files back copied onto it. To do this, I successfully booted a Kali linux live from USB and was able to copy the ramdisk file back to the 99Mb partition with the associated checksum files. I'll describe the steps to see if anyone needs it here:
https://www.nas-forum.com/forum/topic/61126-ds1010-et-fichiers-pat-pour-les-versions-à-partir-de-60/
I think I can take similar steps as you. The first PID / VID steps are not clear to me as to why. If successful, I booted a Live Linux from USB.
After replacing DS1010 in the files with DS1511, the system automatically updated itself because it thought it was DS1511 already? Or did you have to manually load the DS 6.4 files one by one into the old DS5.2 version, or just give it the DSM6.4 PAT file to perform the upgrade? Is the synology automatic upgrade process working now too?
The DS1511 and DS1010 differ in theory only in two things, one is the faster CPU and the esata port address. Maybe if you rewrite it to the right address, it will start to work, too. Maybe now the DS1010 is looking for the esata address of the DS1511 device. I read here: https://www.nas-forum.com/forum/topic/61125-ds1010-et-update-vers-dsm-62x/
In summary:
You ran an xpenology system on the DS1010 hardware in the first round, but then the LEDs probably didn’t work I think. You then modified the factory DS5.2 software to think of the DS1511. To do this, you had to remove the internal USB storage to do. (If true, maybe the Live Linux method is simpler :)) After that, the device already thought of itself as DS1511 and upgraded to DS6.4 immediately?
did i think so
Cheers