[c-nsp] WS-C2950G-24-EI memory upgrade

[Paul Stewart]

Thank you - so I have to ask what might seem like a dumb question ;)  Why
would Cisco put out an image and claim it requires 16 meg of SDRAM if
all/some of the 2950's don't have it?  Is this just a blunder from Cisco
possibly?  I checked a number of our other 2950's and none of them have more
than 8 meg SDRAM but they are all 2950T's - we don't have any other 2950G
series to verify....

Take care,
Paul


-----Original Message-----
From: Łukasz Bromirski [mailto:lukasz at bromirski.net] 
Sent: April 26, 2009 12:15 PM
To: Paul Stewart
Cc: 'Cisco-nsp'
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] WS-C2950G-24-EI memory upgrade

On 2009-04-26 17:17, Paul Stewart wrote:

> We have several WS-C2950G-24-EI switches (AC and DC versions)
> running.. Most of them are running 12.1(13)EA1 code and we'd like to
> upgrade into 12.1(22)EA13 with crypto.
> These switches have 8 meg flash and 8 meg DRAM today - upgrade in
> software requires 8 meg flash and 16 meg DRAM.  Has anyone done a
> memory upgrade on these?  Is it just a matter of cracking the case
> and putting a DIMM module in?

The fixed line of Catalyst switches doesn't support upgrading memory -
both RAM and flash. When you look at the motherboard - everything is
fixed to it, no slots to change/upgrade anything.

The IOS you're trying to download to the 2950G should boot just fine,
as all 2950 were shipped with maxed out memory config, and there was
no IOS needing any kind of upgrade (as it was not field doable).

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