Benoire Posted October 25, 2018 Share #1 Posted October 25, 2018 I'm currently thinking about virtualising my server again as I've been using VMM and its pretty poor compared to ESXi. I edited the grub.cfg to boot from ESXi effectively and created the vmdks. The loader works and I can install DSM to the test drive I created, however it is shown starting at drive bay 9. This appears to be because you have to boot the loader using SATA not parallel and so it counts any sata ports in ESXi as available. My sataportmap config was set to 88 as that is currently what the baremetal is using the 2 LSI cards but I wonder if it should in fact be sataportmap = 088 as that would give the first controller 0 ports and then allow my SAS HBAs to take the first set of slots, would that work? I'm in a test environment so can play around lots but would like to resolve this prior to the weekend. Any thoughts are appreciated. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooseMan123 Posted November 14, 2018 Share #2 Posted November 14, 2018 I will be following this thread, as this information would be useful for me too. I just passed through a 9207-8i, and my drive is so far off the numbers it shows as an eSATA drive. What model card do you have? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hostilian Posted November 14, 2018 Share #3 Posted November 14, 2018 On 10/25/2018 at 9:57 PM, Benoire said: My sataportmap config was set to 88 as that is currently what the baremetal is using the 2 LSI cards but I wonder if it should in fact be sataportmap = 088 as that would give the first controller 0 ports and then allow my SAS HBAs to take the first set of slots, would that work? I'm in a test environment so can play around lots but would like to resolve this prior to the weekend. I have one add in card (and two onboard controllers) so mine is set to 666.. I reckon yours should be something similar.. You may also need to tweak your config files, iusing Putty, if your drives are showing up as 'external'.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hostilian Posted November 14, 2018 Share #4 Posted November 14, 2018 4 hours ago, MooseMan123 said: I will be following this thread, as this information would be useful for me too. I just passed through a 9207-8i, and my drive is so far off the numbers it shows as an eSATA drive. What model card do you have? Quote OK.. Sorted it out.. I'll put the details here for completeness.. The 2 disks were showing up as eSATA drives - not much use, but at least it's a step forward.. To get them to show up as normal SATA drives, I needed to do the following.. used vi to edit the following two files; etc/synoconf.conf and etc.defaults/synoconf.conf Change the same 3 lines in each file to; internalportcfg="0x3FFFFFF" usbportcfg="0xFF00000000" esataportcfg="0x0" (They're all down near the bottom..) When I rebooted the Syno box, I had lots of disks (including the 50MB boot disk).. eSATA were now gone and moved to normal SATA. For info, my sataportmap was "666" in grub.cfg Pasting one of my previous posts here - should sort you out! #H 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooseMan123 Posted November 14, 2018 Share #5 Posted November 14, 2018 Thanks for the info, I'll give it a shot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooseMan123 Posted November 14, 2018 Share #6 Posted November 14, 2018 Perfect, that made them all show up! I may play around with the numbers a little more to see if I can get it to show a max of 12 slots (The max that I have) Have you figured out a way to hide the 50MB VMware disk? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hostilian Posted November 14, 2018 Share #7 Posted November 14, 2018 Nice one! The 50MB disk... I haven't tried.. I'm happy just ignoring it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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