ma160802 Posted October 9, 2014 #1 Posted October 9, 2014 Hi is there a way to remove the esata port from showing as disk 5 under DSM 5.0 disk manager , I've recently added a 5th drive in the cd rom bay using the on board spare sata port but its coming up as drive 6. I figured out that the 5th drive slot is reserved for the external esata port , when I plug in a esata external drive it comes up as disk 5.
Dfds Posted October 9, 2014 #2 Posted October 9, 2014 You'll need to edit /etc.defaults/synoinfo.conf & set the value of esataportcfg as shown below. esataportcfg="0x0" Save the file & then reboot.
ma160802 Posted October 10, 2014 Author #3 Posted October 10, 2014 the original value in /etc.defaults/synoinfo.conf was set to esataportcfg="0xff000" ,which I changed to esataportcfg="0x0" and after the rebooted I did not see any change . Its doing the same think I even plugged in the external esata drive and its coming up as drive five in storage manager. Is there anything else you can think of?
Dfds Posted October 10, 2014 #4 Posted October 10, 2014 Try adding the following & rebooting again. internalportcfg="0xfffff"
ma160802 Posted October 10, 2014 Author #5 Posted October 10, 2014 Ive just noted that under AHCI setting in bios that port 4 is also is not picking up a hard drive its skipping the port . is this normal ? Im running a mod bios.
ma160802 Posted October 11, 2014 Author #6 Posted October 11, 2014 I''ve reflashed the bios with the latest version (10.01.2013) but the bios is still reserving port 4 for the external esata , is this normal?
XPEH Posted October 11, 2014 #7 Posted October 11, 2014 I''ve reflashed the bios with the latest version (10.01.2013) but the bios is still reserving port 4 for the external esata , is this normal? Yes.
ma160802 Posted October 11, 2014 Author #8 Posted October 11, 2014 ok thx , is there a way to change this within dsm so that it doesn't reserve the port in disk manager for the external esata port?
XPEH Posted October 12, 2014 #9 Posted October 12, 2014 ok thx , is there a way to change this within dsm so that it doesn't reserve the port in disk manager for the external esata port? Why is matter? It is a pure cosmetic issue and have no performance or functionality penalty. HP Microserver designers have chosen to use this port numbering, so be it.
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