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

[Phil Mayers]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 04:53:56PM +0200, Peter Rathlev 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.

We've got non-Cisco 1Gb cards in 3Bs under SXF and SXH2a - sup hardware 
versions are 4.4, rommon 8.1(3)

However we've also had some other 1Gb CF fail, which I think might have 
been kingston. We didn't look into it in too much detail, just dropped 
back to 512Mb.

>
>Regards,
>Peter
>
>
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