[nsp] Viking flash in RSP4? - Some Work, Some Don't...?

[Richard J.Sears]

We tried using a SANDISK CF 64MB Card with a PCMCIA converter card.

We used them in our 7507 and 7513's, but we ran into a very interesting
problem during the process.

We plugged in a 128MB CF card in to the PCMCIA converter, plugged it
into the router and formatted it no problem. It was great...we were on
the track to upgrade all of the routers.

So we headed down to the local computer store, picked up 4 SANDISK 64MB
CampactFlash cards (as opposed to 128) and came back. Funny thing, only
one of those cards worked in the routers. We tried switching the pcmcia
converter, same result...the one card worked, the other 3 did not. 

We put the other three into a digital camera we had, formatted it and
they all worked great. Back in the router - they failed.

It took us going through 15 cards to get 4 that worked.

Even though the other cards would work in other equipment, they would
not work in the router.

Has anyone else see this before....?

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 10:48:17 -0500
"Ejay Hire" <ejay.hire at isdn.net> wrote:

> Hi Jeff.  
> 
> These are ATA cards, so you have to call them "DiskX:" instead of
> "SlotX:".  I know these work in the 72xx/75xxs, please let me know if
> they work in the RSP4s.  This command should do what you want. "format
> disk1:"
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> (plug)
> If anyone would like some of these, I have 5 48 MB sandisk cards
> (formatted and tested in a 7204) that I'm getting ready to ebay.  If you
> need many, I can get a whole lot more within 2-3 days.
> (/Plug)
> 
> Ejay Hire
> EjayHire at hotmail.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Chan [mailto:cisco-nsp at jeffchan.com] 
> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 3:46 AM
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [nsp] Viking flash in RSP4?
> 
> Hi All,
> Has anyone successfully used the Viking flash memory:
> 
>  
> http://www.insight.com/web/apps/productpresentation/index.php?product_id
> =vik75448
> 
>   VIKING 48MB DUAL VOLTAGE FLASH MODULE FOR CISCO
>   Manufacturer Part Number        CS75RSP4/48FC
> 
> in their RSP4?  When I try to format it, I get the following
> non-helpful error message :) :
> 
> > Format operation may take a while. Continue? [confirm]
> > Format operation will destroy all data in "slot1:".  Continue?
> [confirm]
> > Enter volume ID (up to 64 chars)[default slot1]:
> > %Error formatting slot1 (Unspecified error)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jeff C.
> -- 
> Jeff Chan
> mailto:cisco-nsp at jeffchan.com
> http://www.supranet.net/
> 
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