RaidSonic IB-NAS4220-B sysupgrade

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Hello.

I landed here because I'm trying to update WRT on my RaidSonic IB-NAS4220-B, and this folder does not contain a raidsonic_ib-4220-...-sysupgrade.bin file, only ...-factory.bin. The Techdata page mentions those ...-factory.bin images as "Upgrade URLs" (and to add to confusion, for some reason it links to ext4 versions, even though by reading this forum I got the impression that a 16M ROM device should be definitely used with SquashFS).

Anyway, after a lot of fearmongering I took my chances and uploaded the ...-squashfs-factory.bin image via the WRT's LuCI interface, and it seems to have worked. So I'm leaving a post here just in case another uncertain noob like me ends up in this thread in similar situation.

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while i appreciate your contribution, this is a dangerous recommendation.

for DLINK devices it will not brick your router, but certainly would require the use of recovery mode with the correct image.

as @hnyman alluded, there is a lot of variation between manufacturers.

suggests that a 'sysupgrade' image is available.

please do not make this recommendation to noobs since they may faint by mistakenly assuming their router is bricked after flashing the wrong image.

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for DLINK devices it will not brick your router, but certainly would require the use of recovery mode with the correct image.

Yes, but (unlike NAS4220) there is a ...-sysupgrade.bin file for D-Link devices in the release folder, so there is no confusion to begin with.

Techdata suggests that a 'sysupgrade' image is available.

I guess I have eye problems because I fail to find any mention of it, barring the "Conventions for dataentry values" example at the bottom...

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oic what you're saying.

yeah i saw "Firmware OpenWrt snapshot Upgrade URL" and assumed it would have a sysupgrade suffix, but i guess not.

nice eye, but i would still use that page as the ultimate guide. i guess you sort of lucked out by not reading the techdata page and still flashing the factory image without issues :>

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@ScumCoder Yours is an edge case. When available one should always flash a sysupgrade image to upgrade from OpenWrt, when available.

The fact the factory image is linked for sysupgrade in that wiki page means it's meant to work. However, I think nowadays a sysupgrade image is what gets built by default if you don't tell the build system to provide a factory one - and I think kind of the opposite happened here.

Might be sysupgrade wasn't around or as widely supported when your device gained OpenWrt support.