sbv3000 Posted November 5, 2017 #1 Posted November 5, 2017 (edited) This FAQ is set up to answer questions that are commonly asked! 1 - What motherboard/PC/CPU can I use? 2 - What about other components like add on disk controllers and network cards? 3 - Can I use a Hypervisor/Virtualisation? 4 - Is there an HCL I can check for compatibility? 5 - My HP P410 disk controller (or other Disk/RAID controller) on my bare metal installation is not showing any drives connected? 6 - Why is my 8 port SATA controller only showing 4 disks attached on DSM? Credits go to @sbv3000 for redacting most of the FAQs Edited October 7, 2022 by Polanskiman Title edit. 1
polanskiman Posted December 12, 2017 #2 Posted December 12, 2017 (edited) 1 - What motherboard/PC/CPU can I use? Most Intel based motherboards/PC's will work with the current boot loader for DSM 6.1.x and DSM 6.2 but many community members are running AMD with DSM 6.1.x. If your motherboards BIOS has a C1E function (mostly HP machines) make sure to disable that before upgrading to DSM 6.1.x Intel/AMD boards are supported with XPE/DSM 6.0.2. Edited May 27, 2019 by Polanskiman Updated with DSM 6.2. 3
polanskiman Posted December 12, 2017 #3 Posted December 12, 2017 2 - What about other components like add on disk controllers and network cards? Many popular add-on cards are supported by the current loader or community developers compiling and sharing additional modules/drivers.
polanskiman Posted December 12, 2017 #4 Posted December 12, 2017 3 - Can I use a Hypervisor/Virtualisation? VMWare ESXi and Workstation/Player are the most popular and community supported virtualisation platforms. Proxmox can also be used, Hyper-V is little used and has little support.
polanskiman Posted December 12, 2017 #5 Posted December 12, 2017 4 - Is there an HCL I can check for compatibility? Not really, but community members are working on publishing a list of included/additional modules and drivers and devices they support. This said you can check the modules contained in the loader and ramdisk published by community members, and from there, see if your hardware is supported. For additional modules compiled by community members look here: https://xpenology.com/forum/forum/91-additional-compiled-modules/ For a user reported compatibility list look here: https://xpenology.com/forum/topic/8373-user-reported-compatibility-thread-for-dsm-61
polanskiman Posted December 12, 2017 #6 Posted December 12, 2017 5 - Why is my HP P410 disk controller (or other Disk/RAID controller) on my bare metal installation is not showing any drives connected? The HP410 (or other hardware) is unsupported in the XPE 6 boot loader and missing necessary drivers. You can try installation under ESXi to use that controller.
polanskiman Posted February 17, 2018 #7 Posted February 17, 2018 6 - Why is my 8 port SATA controller only showing 4 disks attached on DSM ? It is likely that the controller is based on a SATA Port Multiplier. Port multipliers are not supported by DSM.
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