So, the other day I was gifted an old server, based on the Supermicro X8SI6-F.
It sits in a Fractal Design Define R5, that easy supports 8+ drives.
As always, the first thing that came to mind, was that this could be used with XPEnology ;-)
It has no problem booting Jun's 1.3b, and installing DSM 6.3.x (DS3615xs),
but it insists on using the 6*Sata2(3Gb/s) as drive 1-6, before the 8*6Gb/s ports on the integrated SAS controller (IT-mode).
This give me a count of 6+8=14 drives, and if I want to use them all, I will have to modify the max disk in synoinfo.conf. with the risk of "loosing" the last 2 SAS ports when updating.
I was hoping I could just disable the SATA ports in BIOS, and use just the 8 SAS ports, but I found no option to do so.
Now, my question to the guru's here:
Can I remap the drive order in a config file (and not having it broken during updates) and keep my 8 SAS ports as drive 1-8?
(and maybe use 4 of the 6 SATA ports if needed)