After installing and configuring machineB I noticed I had stability issues. The machine would randomly become unresponsive and Synology Assistant would no longer detect it. Following a hard reboot to revive it, there was no message mentioning it was shutdown improperly, which has me thinking the system froze rather than just lost Ethernet connection. First, I thought maybe it was due to the bond connection (LACP) so I disabled that and started testing with only 1 port (without LACP). The problems remain when using only 1 port at a time.
If I put a random GbE AIC or use the onboard GbE, it seems to work alright.
Then, I needed to test the quad-port GbE AIC. I thus tried it - actually tried them, since I have 2 units - in windows10 and they seem to work alright.
Then I tried using this card (using only 1 port) in machineA, machineC or when installing machineD. This card won't work in any of these!?!
For machineA and machineC, I know DSM starts up but doesn't get any Ethernet connectivity since a hard reboot leads to a report of improper shutdown after I put back the original GbE NIC.
For machineD, I couldn't install using this card (I tried both ds3617xs 1.03b and ds918+ 1.04b). I tried installing with a random GbE NIC and then replace it with the quad-port NIC, but again, it doesn't work (no Ethernet connectivity).
Declaring mac1 to mac4 in grub.cfg seems to have no effect functionally for the tests I am currently running.
I don't understand how on earth I am able to use this quad-port card on machineB. What is different with this HW compared to the 3 other rigs?
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asheenlevrai
Hi
In order to explain my problem more easily, let me list here the xpen machines I use for reference:
machineA (shutdown issue reported here)
DS3617xs 1.03b
MB : ga-z68ap-d3 rev2.0 (onboard NIC is dead and disabled in BIOS)
CPU : i5 3470
RAM : 2x 2GB DDR3 1066MHz
NIC : GbE AIC based on Broadcom BCM95722A2202G
sATA : 5ports sATA3 AIC based on jmb585 (2 disks on MB sATA3 ports, 5 disks on AIC)
machineB (instability issue reported here)
DS3617xs 1.03b
MB : Asus p8z77-m (onboard NIC disabled in BIOS)
CPU : i7 3770k
RAM : 4x 4GB DDR3 1066MHz
NIC : PCIe2.0 x4 quad-port GbE NIC based on Realtek RTL8111G
sATA : 5ports sATA3 AIC based on jmb585 (2 disks on MB sATA3 ports, 4 disks on AIC)
machineC (works OK)
DS918+ 1.04b
MB : ga-z87-hd3
CPU : i7 4770s
RAM : 2x 2GB DDR3 1333MHz
NIC : onboard GbE
sATA : 5ports sATA3 AIC based on jmb585 (6 disks on MB sATA3 ports, 2 disks on AIC)
machineD (for testing, OK)
DS918+ 1.04b
MB : optiplex 9020 sff (onboard NIC disabled in BIOS. i217-LM Doesn't work in windows 10 : Error 10. Driver Issue)
CPU : i7 4770
RAM : 1x 4GB DDR3 1600MHz
NIC : random GbE AIC (works) or PCIe2.0 x4 quad-port GbE NIC based on Realtek RTL8111G (doesn't)
sATA : onboard (1 disk)
After installing and configuring machineB I noticed I had stability issues. The machine would randomly become unresponsive and Synology Assistant would no longer detect it. Following a hard reboot to revive it, there was no message mentioning it was shutdown improperly, which has me thinking the system froze rather than just lost Ethernet connection. First, I thought maybe it was due to the bond connection (LACP) so I disabled that and started testing with only 1 port (without LACP). The problems remain when using only 1 port at a time.
If I put a random GbE AIC or use the onboard GbE, it seems to work alright.
Then, I needed to test the quad-port GbE AIC. I thus tried it - actually tried them, since I have 2 units - in windows10 and they seem to work alright.
Then I tried using this card (using only 1 port) in machineA, machineC or when installing machineD. This card won't work in any of these!?!
For machineA and machineC, I know DSM starts up but doesn't get any Ethernet connectivity since a hard reboot leads to a report of improper shutdown after I put back the original GbE NIC.
For machineD, I couldn't install using this card (I tried both ds3617xs 1.03b and ds918+ 1.04b). I tried installing with a random GbE NIC and then replace it with the quad-port NIC, but again, it doesn't work (no Ethernet connectivity).
Declaring mac1 to mac4 in grub.cfg seems to have no effect functionally for the tests I am currently running.
I don't understand how on earth I am able to use this quad-port card on machineB. What is different with this HW compared to the 3 other rigs?
Thank you very much in advance for your help.
Best,
-a-
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