[[SOLVED] HP Proliant N40L MicroServer native support]

it was working under windows 8 after apply the AMD driver (guide link in my post above). So it looks like to make the port multiplier work, both bios and the driver need to support it.

 

What puzzles me is that the guide says the port multiplier works out of box in linux. Coule it be that synology uses a different driver?

 

port multiplier is a hardware thing... i believe the hacked bios has such an option...

Now the DSM will only see the first partition, but should see all disks once supported/enabled (to be confirmed)

[List for next driver rebuild]

would be great to get esata port multiplier work on N40L, which is handled by AMD Southbridge SB850.

 

Based on this article, it should work out of the box on linux:

 

http://homeservershow.com/forums/index. ... -on-esata/

 

".... I've used linux to verify this which just works with it out of the box. ...."

 

Thanks!

[[SOLVED] HP Proliant N40L MicroServer native support]

I hoped it would make the the port multiplexor working on N40L. Unfortunately no.

 

I have a San digital 5 bay esata enclosure. only one drive shows up in the storage manager.

 

Hi All, I think i know how to enable the eSata ports to behave as external ports now: http://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?f=93&t=20661&start=270

i have a Sata to small form factor eSata bracket

. 1) enable the SSH service and login to NAS through SSH.

. 2) go to and edit /etc/synoinfo.conf (you can (must) also edit /etc.defaults/synoinfo.conf because idk what file is primary).

 

For the N40l there is 6 ports, the internal ones are 1(left) to 4 (right). so is left 0 and 5

The easiest to identify the port number is to connect a disk on the ports, look at the port number in the storage manager and generate the masks as below:

. internalportcfg="0x1e" = 1e (hex) = 00011110 (binary) = four internal SATA ports enabled (on mask 1-4)

. esataportcfg="0x21" = 21 (hex) = 00100001 (binary)= two ESATA ports (0,5) (because 1-4 internal ICH9R sata ports).

 

It seem to have been mentionned in the chinese forum here: http://xpenology.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=632&p=1806&hilit=eSata#p1806 but could not translate the page using google or chrome for some reason...