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

[Tim Durack]

That's true, but the Cisco 1GB CF I borrowed from a S720-10G for a test
seems to work okay. So I'm still scratching my head.

At this point I'm probably going to spring for the Cisco CF, but I'd rather
know that I could mix-n-match.

Tim:>

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Peter Rathlev <peter at rathlev.dk> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>