[c-nsp] SUP720-3B / 3rd party CF

[Peter Rathlev]

On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 09:09 -0400, Tim Durack wrote:
> This is a mystery to me:
> 
> I've got a few new VS-S720-10G-3C Sups that work just fine with Kingston 1GB
> CF. I've also got some old SUP720-3Bs that refuse to recognise anything
> other than Cisco CF. Tried formatting, upgrading rommon (8.5(2)), dd'ing
> Cisco flash to Kingston etc. This is under 12.2(33)SXH2 in case it makes a
> difference.
> 
> Googling around and checking cisco-nsp archives suggest 3rd party flash
> should work just fine with the 3B.
> 
> Anyone else run into this?

According to the data sheet[1] the Sup720 only supports up to 512MB
flash. We use 512MB cards in a range of 6500s with Sup720 HW-revisions
2.1, 4.3 and 5.2 without problems. Haven't tried 1GB though.

Regards,
Peter