[nsp] Re: SANDISK Cards working in PC's !

Daniska Tomas tomas@tronet.com
Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:17:37 +0200


hi,

is anyone aware of a driver for win or *nix that'd be capable of =
reading/writing cisco-proprietary flash filesystems (e.g. those used =
with flash ram cards like those used with rsp's)

thanks

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Tomas Daniska
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry Bruins [mailto:bbruins@cisco.com]=20
> Sent: 26. j=FAla 2002 16:30
> To: Shankar Vemulapalli; Kevin Gannon
> Cc: 'Cisco-Nsp (E-mail)
> Subject: [nsp] Re: SANDISK Cards working in PC's !
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> To be more detailed -
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> The ATA flash support in IOS uses a FAT16 filesystem.  The=20
> cards should first
> be formatted on the IOS in order to get proper bootstrap=20
> behavior, but after
> that you can move files around at will with a PC.  There are=20
> a few limitations
> such as not putting more than 255 files in the root=20
> directory.  But the convenience
> of using a laptop was on our minds when we created the support.
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> Barry
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> At 01:39 PM 7/17/2002 -0700, Shankar Vemulapalli wrote:
> >To be more clear -
> >is supported in IOS for a long time...
> >
> >And will be suppored in bootrom mode from 12.0(22)S.
> >Hope this is clear.
> >
> >
> >/Shankar
> >
> >
> >At 1:37pm 07/17/02 -0700, Shankar Vemulapalli wrote:
> >> Hi Kevin -
> >>
> >> Will be supported from 12.0(22)S.
> >> The 12.0(22)S is going to be on CCO shortly [next 4 or 5 days!]
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >>
> >> /Shankar
> >>
> >>
> >> At 9:07pm 07/17/02 +0100, Kevin Gannon wrote:
> >> > I just noticed by chance that the 48Mb SANDISKs for the 7200's
> >> > can be read/wrote to under windows 2000. It takes seconds to
> >> > copy images down to the card rather than minutes with tftp.
> >> >
> >> > Anyone know which of the newer cards/IOSs support this
> >> > "feature". ?
> >> >
> >> > Regards,
> >> > Kevin
> >> >
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