The D-Link DNS-325 A1 is NAS with 2x HDD (3.5 inch) bays, 1x 10/100/1000Base-T port and 1x USB 2.0 port
Device specification:
SoC: Marvell 88F6281-A1 1.2 GHz
RAM: 256 MB (2xSEC K4T1G084QF-HCF7:128Mx8 @400 CL6)
Flash: 128 MB (SAMSUNG 946 K9F1G08U0B PCB0)
SATA: 2x internal SATA II drives
Ethernet: 1x Gigabit (Marvell 88E1116R-NNC1)
LED: 7x (white: Power, white/red: Right SATA Activity, USB Activity, Left SATA Activity)
Key: 3x (Power, Reset, USB Copy/Unmount)
Serial: 5 pin header (RXD,GAP,3.3V,GND,TXD), (115200,8,N,1), 3.3V TTL
USB ports: 1x USB 2.0
Flash instruction:
NOTE: this process uses a serial connection. It will upgrade the bootloader and reset the bootloader environment variables
USB flash stick setup
Format to FAT32 without mbr
Copy these files to USB flash stick: dlink_dns-325-a1-initramfs-uImage dlink_dns-325-a1-squashfs-factory.bin dlink_dns-325-a1-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin u-boot.kwb (from u-boot-dns325 directory)
NAS setup
Connect LAN cable between router and NAS device
Connetc USB flash stick to NAS device
Connect serial to NAS device
Boot from new u-boot and install it
$ kwboot -p -b u-boot.kwb -B115200 -t /dev/ttyUSB0
Power on NAS
After download copleted and booted NAS device with new u-boot stop in bootloader by pressing any key
=> usb start
=> fatload usb 0 0x1000000 /u-boot.kwb
=> nand erase.part u-boot
=> nand write 0x1000000 u-boot ${filesize}
=> reset
Update MAC address in u-boot env
Stop in bootloader by pressing any key
Get your MAC address from label on chassis
=> setenv ethaddr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
=> saveenv
Install OpenWrt by flashing factory image from u-boot
=> usb start
=> fatload usb 0 0x1000000 /dlink_dns-325-a1-squashfs-factory.bin
=> nand erase.part ubi
=> nand write 0x1000000 ubi ${filesize}
=> reset
Based-on: #9296
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Meshkov <skyline@mail.ru>
[ refresh uboot patches ]
Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/17924
Signed-off-by: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
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