[c-nsp] 6500 autoboot intermittent failures

[Jared Mauch]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 02:44:54PM -0500, Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Jared Mauch wrote:
> ATA MONLIB INFO
>    Image Monlib size = 73144
>    Disk monlib size = 77312
>    Name = c7200-atafslib-m
>    Monlib Start sector = 2
>    Monlib End sector = 144
>    Monlib updated by = s72033_sp-ADVIPSERVICESK9_WAN-M12.2(18)SXF12
>    Monlib version = 1
>
> Our current production sup720s running 12.2SXD software don't show anything 
> about ATA MONLIB when you do a show disk all.  Does this mean that when we 
> eventually upgrade them to 12.2SXF, to reliably boot, we'll need to 
> reformat their CF cards as soon as we've upgraded?

	It may be that SXD can't properly show stuff, but yes, you may
want to update the monlib.  I think there's some other cli way to do it
but the easiest i've found is to format.

> Also, can you use 4GB CF cards in a sup720?  They tell me 4GB was all they 
> could find locally.  There appear to at least be some cosmetic issues...but 
> they format and boot.

	I've never tried anything greater than 1G.

> They don't show up in "show file sys"
>
> * 1024507904   943685632      disk     rw   disk0:
>            -           -      disk     rw   disk1:
>
> They don't report space used/free in dir disk:
>
> Directory of disk1:/
>
>     1  -rw-    80817188   Jan 7 2008 12:02:50 +00:00 
> s72033-advipservicesk9_wan-mz.122-18.SXF12.bin
>
> No space information available
>
> and there appears to be some signed integer overflow in show disk:
>
> Router#show disk1: all
> -#- --length-- -----date/time------ path
> 1     80817188 Jan 07 2008 12:02:50 
> s72033-advipservicesk9_wan-mz.122-18.SXF12.bin
>
> -266141696 bytes available (80871424 bytes used)

	What version is this in?  SXD, perhaps.  SXF or SXH I doubt you'd
see this behaviour.  (or at least I don't)

> Would these be unsafe to use in production...or are the issues likely just 
> cosmetic?

	- Jared

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