Rebuilding a duetwifi2 wanhaod6
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My Duetwifi2 has been running 5 1/2 years+ now and I intend to rebuild the wanhaoD6 since its pretty worn. Since the card is very full is it OK to reformat it? ie is there anything on it I should get off it first? settings to backup? is there a howto?
Is there any risk in updating the firmware as its so old? It runs just fine BTW many hundreds of hours use out of it.
TY
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If I were you, I'd probably keep that SD card as a backup. Maybe mount it on the wall. Then start fresh with a new SD card. 5 years is potentially a lot of wear on an SD card.
You don't mention what firmware you are currently using. That will have a bit of bearing on how you would go about updating. Of course, you don't HAVE to upgrade the firmware. If you're totally happy with the features provided, why mess with success?
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@phaedrux said in Rebuilding a duetwifi2 wanhaod6:
If I were you, I'd probably keep that SD card as a backup. Maybe mount it on the wall. Then start fresh with a new SD card. 5 years is potentially a lot of wear on an SD card.
You don't mention what firmware you are currently using. That will have a bit of bearing on how you would go about updating. Of course, you don't HAVE to upgrade the firmware. If you're totally happy with the features provided, why mess with success?
So nothing on the SDcard? I think I'll do just that put in a new card makes sense
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You don't mention what firmware you are currently using. That will have a bit of bearing on how you would go about updating. Of course, you don't HAVE to upgrade the firmware. If you're totally happy with the features provided, why mess with success?
So nothing on the SDcard? I think I'll do just that put in a new card makes sense
Its has a 32gb card, is there any max size? I should be able to get a 32gb but anything less not really.
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@gzcwnk you need the sys, macros and www folder.
And 32Gb is the max supported by FAT32 (usually) -
More details here: https://docs.duet3d.com/en/User_manual/RepRapFirmware/SD_card
And if you do decide to update, the web config tool will help you generate a new config file set updated with modern syntax.
https://configtool.reprapfirmware.org/Start
And once again, if you want more specific details about updating your firmware version tell us where you're at right now. Otherwise, here are the general instructions.
https://docs.duet3d.com/en/User_manual/RepRapFirmware/Updating_firmware
