smoothmove Posted February 18, 2020 Share #1 Posted February 18, 2020 (edited) I have a 2415+ Synology and wanted to try playing with the Dell. I used : Jun's Mod V1.02b (non MBR) DS3617xs 15284.pat Dell T20 Xeon 1226- V3 8GB ram 4 - WD 12TB Bios settings- AHCI Mode Boot to USB only UEFI boot Legacy devices enabled All CPU HT and cores enabled Secure boot disabled Serial Port disabled- I didn't need it and didn't try it. All USB enabled Audio disabled- I don't need it and didn't try it. Steps 1. Downloaded software 2. Made USB from image - JUN 3. Make Bios Changes 4. find.synology.com 5. Install the 3617 15284.pat Notes- You have to have 4 drives when installing the SynOS OR it will give you a data error stating drives 5&6 are missing or damaged. It wasn't a problem after install with less than 4 drives. If you install a higher version- it will install about 60% and give you a Fail Common:Common error You can update to the patched version 3, but not Upgrade to 6.2. I have done things to this to test out how good Synology is. I have built the raids, killed the raids, formatted, speed test smart test and made several raid crashed to test out how it rebuilds. I put about 6 TB on it and then unplugged drives. inserted the same drive but formatted- and it rebuilt without issue. I have installed apps without issue. I do not have the stones nor need to try the Synology branded software or surveil station. I didn't try the Plex server yet. The boot up times and responsiveness is way faster than my 2415. Boot times are 30 seconds and access is instant. This turned out to be a neat project. Time machine works. I want to test the ability for numerous power failures during copying, rebuilding, etc. Things I wouldn't have dreamed of doing with mission critical data on my real Synology. Edited February 18, 2020 by smoothmove 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearcat Posted February 19, 2020 Share #2 Posted February 19, 2020 Well done I'm a bit curious as to why it failed during install with less than 4 drives installed 😕 that's a new one... Did you try to install using ds3615xs ? the 3617 seems to generate more "funny problems" than the 15. btw: if you enable your serial port, you may use it to read out logs of "what is going on behind the screen" during boot etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smoothmove Posted February 19, 2020 Author Share #3 Posted February 19, 2020 I troubleshot that one. Solution: Unplug computer with only one drive hooked up. Remove Bios Battery. Replace bios Battery and reset Bios settings as above. This solved it. Don't know why. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smoothmove Posted February 28, 2020 Author Share #4 Posted February 28, 2020 Update: Put in a 8 port SATA card AHCI. Used an ASM1061*4 Chipset for PCIe Sata, onboard is Marvell. Now all twelve SATA channels work. I ran out of drives to test the 10 drive Raid 5. Note that the Dell onboard SATA breakdown is - 2 SATA 600 and 2 SATA 300. Upgrading to any version over 15284 patch 3, booted to the Something went wrong screen. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CelsiusX Posted April 15, 2021 Share #5 Posted April 15, 2021 (edited) Confirming, it works. Used: Server - Dell T20 (Core i3-4130, 8GB, 3x0.5TB for testing purpose, will be changed to 3x3TB) Loader - Jun's Loader v1.03b DS3615xs DSM - DSM 6.2.3-25426 (latest 6.2.4-25556 wont boot, tried install pat file directly and as upgrade of 6.2.3 too) BIOS - CSM mode (UEFI loader boot, but network stays unavailable, previous version of bootloader work well in UEFI mode) - create boot flash - edit grub.cfg (VID/PID, MAC1, Serial Number, SetPortMap=4 - boot - find.synology.com - upload PAT manually - restart - config new NAS Edited April 15, 2021 by CelsiusX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toytoy Posted June 15, 2021 Share #6 Posted June 15, 2021 Hi, I'm trying to set a xpenology on my T20, but the network dosn't work, and i can't find it on my network. I followed your last recomandation, but not working for me... Have you some tips, or advices? Thx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smoothmove Posted June 15, 2021 Author Share #7 Posted June 15, 2021 (edited) Some network cards drop off with newer versions of DSM. I switched to a cheap Intel 1000 Pro card on Ebay $15. Edited June 15, 2021 by smoothmove Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toytoy Posted June 15, 2021 Share #8 Posted June 15, 2021 (edited) Thx for your answer, but i'm surprise that it doesn't work because it's an intel network card.. EDIT: I used the 1.02b loader for DS3617XS, and the network car is working. But new problem when i try to install manually the pat 15284 https://global.download.synology.com/download/DSM/release/6.1.7/15284/DSM_DS3617xs_15284.pat i have an error: Failled to format the disk. So i have try differents versions and loader, 3615XS, pat 15284-1, -2, - 3, same for 3617xs, but still the same error message. I have 4 disk inside the T20. Edited June 15, 2021 by Toytoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toytoy Posted June 16, 2021 Share #9 Posted June 16, 2021 Finally its working, after i changed my usb stick 3 times.... 1.02b, 3615xs, 15284.pat upgrade 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smoothmove Posted June 16, 2021 Author Share #10 Posted June 16, 2021 Funny enough- My "expensive" USB don't work. The throw away USB2 1gb USB sticks seem to work every time. Glad you got it running. I used the 918+. Something about Plex encoding working better of the 918+ on the forums. I didn't notice a difference Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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