[c-nsp] Weird disk0: issues

[Graham Wooden]

Format in the SP?  It's not running the CatOS (Hybrid), so I am not
operating out of that space anymore - all I have is the RP to run commands
like that...

Am I missing something here Toby?


On 1/22/09 9:33 PM, "Toby Glover" <Toby at eintellego.net> wrote:

> I have seen this before, SP and RP use a different formatting
> 
> If you format the flash in SP it will be able to read it.
> 
> #format disk0:
> 
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Graham Wooden
> Sent: Friday, 23 January 2009 1:45 PM
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [c-nsp] Weird disk0: issues
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Recently I converted my 6509 Sup2¹s over to native.  It¹s been running
> c6sup22-jk2o3sv-mz.121-27b.E4 for sometime now and now decided to take the
> leap to the s222 series. The SP and RP both have 256MB RAM so I figured I am
> somewhat ready to try it out.  I went ahead and upgraded RP's ROMMON to the
> latest 12.2(17r)S5 ....
> 
> I have used slot0: for saving off configs and such with a 24MB PCMCIA flash
> card. But with this bigger image, I am now trying to use a ATA 64MB Flash
> card to boot from. Internal bootflash on the SP and RP are only 32MB and
> won't hold it obviously....
> 
> But, I can't access the disk from the SP ROMMON:
> 
> System Bootstrap, Version 7.1(1)
> Copyright (c) 1994-2001 by cisco Systems, Inc.
> c6k_sup2 processor with 262144 Kbytes of main memory
> 
> Autoboot: failed, BOOT string is empty
> rommon 1 > boot disk0:
> open: read error...requested 0x4 bytes, got 0xfffffff8
> trouble reading device magic number
> boot: cannot open "disk0:"
> boot: cannot determine first file name on device "disk0:"
> 
> And if I try boot slot0:, it just hangs ...
> Also, I can¹t seem to access it from the IOS until I eject the disk and put
> it back in:
> 
> Router#dir disk0:
> %Error opening disk0:/ (No such device)
> Router#
> 00:04:14: %FILESYS-SP-5-DEV: PCMCIA flash card removed from slot0
> 00:04:17: %FILESYS-SP-5-DEV: PCMCIA flash card inserted into slot0
> Router#dir disk0:
> Directory of disk0:/
> 
>     1  -rw-    28058524  Jan 23 2009 01:07:08 +00:00
> c6sup22-jk2o3sv-mz.121-27b.E4.bin
> 
> 64032768 bytes total (35971072 bytes free)
> 
> NOTE:  I copied the 12.1 image down to this disk to see if it was a size
> issue. I can boot all day long from bootflash:.
> 
> 
> Router#show disk0: all
> -#- --length-- ---------date/time--------- path
> 1     28058524 Jan 23 2009 01:07:08 +00:00 c6sup22-jk2o3sv-mz.121-27b.E4.bin
> 
> 35971072 bytes available (28061696 bytes used)
> 
> ******** ATA Flash Card Geometry/Format Info ********
> 
> ATA CARD GEOMETRY
>    Number of Heads:       8
>    Number of Cylinders    490
>    Sectors per Cylinder   32
>    Sector Size            512
>    Total Sectors          125440
> 
> ATA CARD FORMAT
>    Number of FAT Sectors  62
>    Sectors Per Cluster    8
>    Number of Clusters     15633
>    Number of Data Sectors 125314
>    Base Root Sector       218
>    Base FAT Sector        94
>    Base Data Sector       250
> 
> Is my ATA Flash card bad? I have two of them, and both of them exhibit this
> same behavior.  Thoughts?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -graham
> 
> 
> 
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