[nsp] Source of 7200 flash card?

Temkin, David temkin at sig.com
Tue Apr 20 15:03:25 EDT 2004


Anyone have any idea what the first rev of bootflash supported it?  I
have some C7200's with the single FE I/O that only have 4mb of
bootflash... 

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[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Jared Mauch
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 2:30 PM
To: jlewis at lewis.org
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Subject: Re: [nsp] Source of 7200 flash card?

	Upgrade your bootflash: image and you'll be good.

	Same goes for RSP/7500's

	- jared

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 01:49:26PM -0400, jlewis at lewis.org wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Jared Mauch wrote:
> 
> > 	just get a compact flash and CF <-> PCMCIA adaptor.
> >
> > 	Cisco doesn't officially support it, but it'll work.
> 
> All the ones (7206's) I've seen can't access CF from the old/stripped 
> down ROM IOS or rommon.  I like to keep one slot as a linear flash 
> card (usually 16-20mb) with a failsafe IOS version, and then use a big

> CF in a PCMCIA converter for the "real" IOS.  That way, if anything 
> 'happens' to the CF, you can get mostly up and running using the IOS 
> on the flash card...at least enough to reformat the CF and tftp an
image to it.
> 
> Otherwise, if you're doing comlex stuff (vlan trunking) or have 
> interfaces unknown to ROM IOS, your router will be dead in the water 
> if it reboots and something's happened to the CF card.
> 
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