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

[Tim Durack]

I've been digging around and it looks like the culprit might be the
manufacturer string reported by the cf.
Old Kingston's report as Toshiba, whereas new report as Kingston. Old work
in the 3Bs only, new work in 3B/3C.

My guess is the cf/ata adapter on the 3Bs doesn't recognise the new string
as being a valid cf.

Tim:>

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Phil Mayers <p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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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