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Topic: Raidsonic IB-NAS4220-B

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Hi,
I'm wondering if anyone has tried to put OpenWrt on an ICYBOX IB-NAS4220-B?

I currently use Kamikaze on a WRT54GL (V2) and am really pleased with it.
I'm curious to see if I might also be able to get it on the NAS box.
The main driver for this is that at the moment it's a real pain to do any configuration changes - the Web based UI is extremely limited, and it's not easy to change outside it - the NAS uses sausalito for config management, which is a complete nightmare. A trivial change such as modifying /etc/passwd or /etc/group involves modifying or creating instances of object classes in it's oodb  (CODB).

regards,
Eddy

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Some info on the box:
nas> uname -a
Linux nas.lan 2.6.15 #140 Fri Sep 7 10:29:15 CST 2007 armv4l GNU/Linux
nas> cat /proc/cpuinfo
Processor    : FA526id(wb) rev 1 (v4l)
BogoMIPS    : 230.19
Features    : swp half
CPU implementer    : 0x66
CPU architecture: 4
CPU variant    : 0x0
CPU part    : 0x526
CPU revision    : 1
Cache type    : write-back
Cache clean    : cp15 c7 ops
Cache lockdown    : format B
Cache format    : Harvard
I size        : 16384
I assoc        : 2
I line length    : 16
I sets        : 512
D size        : 8192
D assoc        : 2
D line length    : 16
D sets        : 256
Hardware    : GeminiA
Revision    : 0000
Serial        : 0000000000000000
nas> cat /proc/meminfo | head -1
MemTotal:       125296 kB
nas> df -aHT
Filesystem    Type     Size   Used  Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs      rootfs      17M    14M   3.2M  81% /
/dev/root     ext2      17M    14M   3.2M  81% /
/proc         proc        0      0      0   -  /proc
/sys         sysfs        0      0      0   -  /sys
usbfs        usbfs        0      0      0   -  /proc/bus/usb
/dev/md0      ext3     104M    17M    82M  17% /system
/dev/md1      ext3     492G   240M   467G   1% /mnt/md1

Hi,

I have a Raidsonic IcyBox IB-NAS4210-B. I wonder if there is some work on these NAS-es to make them work with openwrt. I found some links. You can check them on
http://sites.google.com/site/fratzicu/ib-nas4210-b

I found the sourceforge project that looks promising, they have a config file for the image generator. I never succeeded to compile a firmware. And even if I succeeded, I would be a kind of afraid to perform the flashing because, if it fails, I don't have the necessary tools to unbrick the NAS, and also not the necessary the time. I think this NAS has some factory restoring, but I think it works only with the current firmware.

The most annoying thing is that you can't actually make scripts that can be executed on startup. Unless the OpenWRT guys turn their attention also on those devices, I think we have to wait.

There is a linux target in the developpement branch called "gemini". Maybe it could be started there.

I had some expeiance with a trendnet router, but it had a failsafe interface to install te firmware. So, even if The flashing failed, I was able to restore it simply by pressing a reset button at boot and then accessing via web interface the firmware flashing procedure.

Anyway, some guys succeeded to compile an image in 2008, but then all the links to download them just got broken, anyway those were alfa releases.

Maybe some forum user has those files or did some work on the Cortina Systems/Storlink devices (cs3512/sl3512 or cs35xx/sl35xx) and is willing t share the information with us.

Good luck

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