[c-nsp] 3660 Corrupted Flash

[omar parihuana]

Hi,

The last weekend I had the same issue, I had that replace the Flash, I
tried load the IOS ever by XMODEM unfortunately nothing method was
valid... (I used 2611XM chassis...

Sorry my friend.. you should change that flash...

Rgds.

On 8/12/06, Shakeel Ahmad <shakeelahmad at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am facing an issue and wanted to share this, we had a perfectly working
> 3660 till morning when while upgrading IOS its image went bad ...most of my
> engineers have tried loading a new IOS via Xmodem... and all are facing the
> below issue:
>
>
> WARNING: All existing data in flash will be lost!
>
> Invoke this application only for disaster recovery.
>
> Do you wish to continue? y/n  [n]:  y
>
> Ready to receive file c3660-js-mz.123-20.bin ...
>
> Erasing flash at 0x30000000sector erase failed at location 0x30000000,
> status 0x
>
> 20202020
>
> flash sector will NOT erase...aborting
>
> rommon 4 >
>
> bad file magic number
>
> cannot oepn "flash:"
>
>  we have tried two different IOS just to make sure our BIN file is not bad and
> its like Flash: is not ready completely and give : "device does not contain
> a valid magic number" on dir flash: command   ...can anyone help here
>
>
>
> regards,
>
> Shakeel
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