[c-nsp] Weird disk0: issues

[Graham Wooden]

Oh, I didn't see any indication that I was out of space on that ATA  
flash. It's a 64MB card with a 28MB image. What is the indication?

Re: the format ... that's the thing .. I did format in the RP before I  
FTPd the image down to it... this flash card never saw the system  
while it was in Hybrid (ie. having access to the SP).  It's been  
converted to Native for sometime now, and just now formatted this new  
card, put the image on it, and tried to boot.

Apparently I am missing something here, as all indicators that this  
should work. I will go back through, delete the files, squeeze the  
disk0:, format again and FTP back down the image again....

Thanks for the guidance.


Quoting "Murphy, Jay, DOH" <Jay.Murphy at state.nm.us>:

> Not enough space, may want to squeeze it after file deletes to   
> recover any vacuum space. Additionally, as another engineer stated   
> "format" types are different....SP vs. RP
>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Graham Wooden
> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 7:45 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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