ma160802 Posted October 9, 2014 Share #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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dfds Posted October 9, 2014 Share #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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ma160802 Posted October 10, 2014 Author Share #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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dfds Posted October 10, 2014 Share #4 Posted October 10, 2014 Try adding the following & rebooting again. internalportcfg="0xfffff" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ma160802 Posted October 10, 2014 Author Share #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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ma160802 Posted October 11, 2014 Author Share #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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPEH Posted October 11, 2014 Share #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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ma160802 Posted October 11, 2014 Author Share #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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPEH Posted October 12, 2014 Share #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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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