[c-nsp] corrupted IOS image when transferring using PCMCIA card

[John Center]

Hi,

We just did an upgrade from Hybrid to Native on two 6506s (PFC2/MSFC2). 
  We had the 64MB ATA cards & we had a hard time getting the image on 
the card.  TFTP wouldn't work - image too large - & FTP couldn't see 
disk0:.  Eventually, we formated the card under CatOS, popped it out & 
put it into a laptop, which recognized it as a drive.  Then, we copied 
over the image & proceeded with the upgrade.  When it came time to 
reformat it for Native IOS, we did the same procedure, again & it 
worked!  We did this three times without a problem.  Only on the 4th 
card did it fail because the card itself was bad.  We just used the same 
procedure to upgrade from 12.2(18)SXD3 to SXD4 w/o a problem.  You might 
want to try this.

HTH

	-John


John Center
Villanova University


Church, Chuck wrote:
> I think it depends on the card.  I've used a 64 meg card (which the
> switch refers to as ATA disk 0) in my laptop, and the CatOS was able to
> read from it.  The smaller flash cards aren't ATA to my knowledge, so
> they may not be compatible with a laptop.  Although after converting
> that switch to Native, I had to reformat, and the ATA card was no longer
> compatible with the laptop.  Definitely pays to keep an FTP server on
> your laptop.   Now if I could find an RPC server for windoze...
> 
> 
> Chuck Church
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Neo Shi
> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 7:25 AM
> To: Cis Ckp
> Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] corrupted IOS image when transferring using PCMCIA
> card
> 
> u cannot use the notebook's pcmcia slot with the 6509's memory card 
> directly.
> 
> On 4/13/05, Cis Ckp <cisckp8 at yahoo.com.sg> wrote: 
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I downloaded an IOS to my notebook & copied this image
>>to a PCMCIA memory card & then insert this into our
>>Cat 6509's slot0: & copy the image over to the MSFC's
>>bootflash as follows :
>>
>>copy sup_slot0:c6msfc2-psv-mz.121-26.E.bin bootflash:/
>>Destination filename [c6msfc2-psv-mz.121-26.E.bin]? <ENTER>
>>!!!!! ...
>>
>>However this image is corrupted as it cant be used to boot up.
>>The very same image which is on the same notebook is fine
>>when tftp'ed over to the MSFC's bootflash.
>>
>>Have anybody encountered this before?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>CKP
>>
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