Self note:
Have been starting the process of looking at new options for my older Synology units. Within the last year or two I have temporarily gotten an update to an 1815+ with the resistor fix, but frankly have been looking/considering ways to consolidate some of the services a bit (ie: docker).
Along the way you hear about the anti-competitive behavior. At my heart, I despise this move. In a practical sense if theres an easy workaround, it may be easier than re-inventing the wheel. Anyway, this isnt about the business or politics of the issue.
Possible workarounds worth trying:
SSH into synology. Become root
sudo -i
Navigate to the folder where the drive list is stored.
cd /var/lib/disk-compatibility
Now if you list the directory you should see some DB files named after your model.
Step 2
We want to edit *_host.db and *_host.db.new and add your drive. In our case we had to add this line to the DB rs2821rp+_host.db and rs2821rp+_host.db.new (Can be done with VIM editor):
{"model":"WD102KRYZ","firmware":"01.01H01","rec_intvl”:[1]},
Some drives in that file don't have a firmware defined, so for you, you could try to copy that entry and add your model number of the drive. Another option is to look in the DB for the expansion unit for your drive, we found our config there. Just make sure "rec_intvl" is set to 1 if you copy the entry. Ours was standard 3 and that didn't work.
Save and quit both files with :wq and then reboot the NAS, if everything is done correctly the NAS should say the disk status is normal.
I hope I can help some people out with this, and I hope Synology will remove this drive "whitelist".
DISCLAIMER: I have no idea how this will work long term or with other drives or NAS'es, I'm just sharing my experience. Try this at your own risk.
Does anyone know if this works? https://www.reddit.com/r/synology/comments/tjgba0/comment/i1kalis/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
Edit /etc.defaults/synoinfo.conf and change
support_disk_compatibility="yes"
to "no" and reboot.
Then all drives can be used without error messages.