[nsp] Source of 7200 flash card?

[jlewis at lewis.org]

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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