sjfaustino Posted November 19, 2014 #1 Posted November 19, 2014 (edited) Hi everyone. I have a N54L with modified BIOS and settings to allow hotswap. It's booting XPEnology from a 2GB USB pendrive and has 4 HDD's on the front bays. I added a 5th HDD on the ODD connection that is detected as a external eSata device in info center and automatically shared as "satashare". The problem is that DSM doesn't allow me to add this HDD to an existing volume since it doesn't show up. Any advice? BIOS settings --------------- ‘Chipset > Southbridge Configuration > SB SATA Configuration’: OnChip SATA Channel = Enabled OnChip IDE Type = IDE SATA IDE Combined Mode = Disabled SATA EPS on all PORT = Enabled SATA Power on all PORT = Enabled ‘Advanced > IDE Configuration’: Embedded SATA Link Rate = 3.0Gbps MAX DiskStation> grep portcfg /etc/synoinfo.conf /etc.defaults/synoinfo.conf /etc/synoinfo.conf:esataportcfg="0x20" /etc/synoinfo.conf:usbportcfg="0x1fc0" /etc/synoinfo.conf:internalportcfg="0xf" /etc.defaults/synoinfo.conf:esataportcfg="0x20" /etc.defaults/synoinfo.conf:usbportcfg="0x1fc0" /etc.defaults/synoinfo.conf:internalportcfg="0xf" Also tried with same result: DiskStation> grep esataportcfg /etc/synoinfo.conf /etc.defaults/synoinfo.conf /etc/synoinfo.conf:esataportcfg="0x30" /etc.defaults/synoinfo.conf:esataportcfg="0x30" dmesg.zip Edited November 20, 2014 by Guest
lugggoos Posted November 20, 2014 #2 Posted November 20, 2014 Based on viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1502 Try this: esataportcfg=0x0 internalportcft=0x3f usbportcfg=0x1FC0 Meaning: No eSataports, every port ist used as internal Sata. Or this: esataportcfg=0x20 internalportcft=0x1F usbportcfg=0x1FC0 Meaning: One of the eSata ports ist used as eSata, all others are internal Sata. Or this: esataportcfg=0x10 internalportcft=0x2F usbportcfg=0x1FC0 Meaning: The other one of eSata ports is used as eSata, all others are internal Sata.
sjfaustino Posted November 20, 2014 Author #3 Posted November 20, 2014 Based onviewtopic.php?f=2&t=1502 Try this: esataportcfg=0x0 internalportcft=0x3f usbportcfg=0x1FC0 Meaning: No eSataports, every port ist used as internal Sata. Thanks. That worked. All drives show as internal and I can now add odd drive to volume.
lugggoos Posted November 20, 2014 #4 Posted November 20, 2014 Keep in mind that your eSata Port at the back of the N54L is now also a internal Sata Port. Maybe you could try if one of the other Configs works for you. Then we would have a knowledge about which port is the ODD port.
lugggoos Posted November 24, 2014 #5 Posted November 24, 2014 Correct Settings for the N54l. This sets the ODD to internal and keeps the eSata as eSataport. esataportcfg=0x10 internalportcft=0x2F usbportcfg=0x1FC0
pigr8 Posted September 7, 2015 #6 Posted September 7, 2015 sorry for bumping this up, i tried to poke around and set the values to esataportcfg=0x10 internalportcft=0x2F usbportcfg=0x1FC0 (biosmod to have all 6 port to ahci) but in the end even if port 4th (the physical rear esata) is set to be esata it shows up in DSM as empty slot in storage manager.. can this not be hidden?
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