HCL:TS228

The QNAP TS-228 is a Network Attached Storage (NAS).

Technical data

• Realtek RTD1195 SoC
  • 2x Arm Cortex-A7
• 2x 3.5" SATA hard drive bay
• 1x USB 2.0 host
• 1x USB 3.0 host
• 1x SD card reader
• 1x 1 Gb/s Ethernet
• 1x fan
• 1x UART connector (PH 2.0 4 Pin ?)

Manual installation

U-Boot

The board does run the following version: U-Boot 2012.07 (Jan 27 2016 - 17:16:49)

TFTP support is compiled in.

Pressing poweron button and reset button at the same time will go into recovery mode and try to load the following files from usb. If they are not present it will present you with U-Boot shell.

rescue_dtb=rescue.emmc.dtb

rescue_rootfs=rescue.root.emmc.cpio.gz_pad.img

rescue_vmlinux=emmc.uImage

Kernel

The mainline Kernel has (very) basic support for the SoC.

It looks like the device is heavy based on Realtek 119x Horseradish