livedeath2k/synology-compatibility-hack

It's a hack to disable the compatibilty check of some synology devices

Synology Compatibility Hack

It's a hack to disable the compatibilty check of some synology devices

It's tested with Version DSM 7.0.1-42218 on a RS2821rp+ NAS.

HowTo

In my Example i'm using windows with putty and scp. Change YOURSYNOLOGYIP to the ip of your Synology Device like 192.168.123.123.

1. Enable SSH on your Synology Device
2. Login via SSh in your Synology Device
3. cd /var/lib/disk-compatibility
4. make a copy of the directory on your local hard drive for backup purposes
   example: scp admin@YOURSYNOLOGYIP:/var/lib/disk-compatibility/*.* c:\temp
5. change the filename of my rs2821rp+_host_v7.db to your device model
6. Inside the file change "MZ7LH1T9HMLT-00005" to your Harddrives model and change "HXT7904Q" to your Harddrives firmware. Save afterwards
7. copy the file via scp to /tmp on your Synology Device
   example: scp c:\temp\rs2821rp+_host_v7.db admin@YOURSYNOLOGYIP:/tmp/rs2821rp+_host_v7.db
8. overwrite the existing file via sudo cp
   example: sudo cp /tmp/rs2821rp+_host_v7.db /var/lib/disk-compatibility/rs2821rp+_host_v7.db
9. reboot your Synology Device
10. Check your Harddisk Status

If it won't work

11. copy the files eunit_rule.db and host_rule.db over the existing files on your Synology Device.
12. Reboot your Synology Device
13. Check your Harddisk Status

synology-compatibility-hack's Issues

looks like they are screwing with the logic somehow.

So used your hack and it worked great for probably 4 months. They pushed a hard drive database on me.
I have 3 drives that are not "compatible". 1 drive in particular is not recognized even after adding it. Have tried multiple ways and something is wrong. The current drives I was using is:
"ST10000VN0004-1ZD101":{"SC60"
"ST12000VN0007-2GS116":{"SC60"
"ST16000NM001G-2KK103":{"SC60"
The 12 and 16tb drives are good. But something about the 10tb drive will not pass. I will have my programmer son look at it, to see if he can figure out if I did something wrong. I'll let you now if I did, but I suspect they are trying to crack down. I heard from a Synology tech, they are going to relax the rigid requirements since I guess it has been a disaster and didn't solve anything.