[c-nsp] 6503-E with Sup720-3BXL?

[Deepak Jain]

Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 04:19:12PM -0400, Deepak Jain wrote:
>> Ahh... now this raises the question.
>>
>> Has anyone actually fired up a 720 in a larger chassis (say a 9-slot) 
>> without any cards and seen what kind of power availability it reports? 
>> Or if it even fires up?
> 
> Well, with a dual-1300W PSU in a 6509, it fires up, complains that you
> do not have a FAN2, and shuts down again.
> 
> If you put in a FAN2, it will power up, complain that this combination
> of FAN and PSU is not support, and give you about 5 minutes to do what's
> necessary before it shuts down the PSU.
> 
> The latter part was a lifesaver for us - we got a Sup720 that was supposed
> to run in a 7604, but the IOS was too old for that chassis, so it refused
> to boot (crashed) - in the 6509, we could get it to the point where I could
> set it to boot from disk0:, and then I could use *that* in the 7604 to
> put a useful image onto sup-bootflash:...

Exactly the kind of "in-case" situation I was thinking about... 
Especially when you have spare hw running around.

Deepak