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how to config SataPortMap sata_remap and DiskIdxMap?


lukemin

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  • 1 year later...

Here's how I solved it for my particular case:

 

Problem: I have a PCIE SATA expansion card.  It has 12 physical ports but it has 24 virtual ports in its firmware.  I needed to remap drives 17-24 to empty ports 5-12.

 

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Here's what I did:

 

1. In ARPL, add a new Cmdline option using these steps:

 

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2. Name of the option: sata_remap

3. Values are written in the following format:  [Current Number - 1]>[Where I Want It - 1]

4. Since I had to remap 8 ports, I kept adding using the :

5. Final value was like this:

 

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6. Re-built the loader

7. Re-loaded DSM

8. Problem fixed, now my drives are shown "sequentially" (when I took this picture, drive 2 was removed):

 

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