[cisco-voip] Yanking Compact Flash while the router is up...

[Jonathan Charles]

Well, I have done it twice in the last two weeks, no problems.

Neither of the routers was a voice gateway, they were just boring WAN routers...


Jonathan

On 5/31/07, Erick Bergquist <erickbe at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have seen it cause a router to crash when the router was configured for SRST MOH and it could no longer read the audio file from flash.... if i recall this may have been due to a bug also in earlier IOS versions. What I did to get around the issue the one time I had to deal with an urgent issue and had to do this, was briefly unconfigure the SRST MOH and reboot the router so it wasn't accessing the flash all the time.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Matthew Saskin <matt at saskin.net>
> To: Jonathan Charles <jonvoip at gmail.com>
> Cc: ciscovoip <cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 11:05:56 AM
> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Yanking Compact Flash while the router is up...
>
> Works fine in my experience - not to say it won't crash the router, just
> that I haven't seen it crash a router :)
>
> -matt
>
> Jonathan Charles wrote:
> > So, I am curious, can you pull a CF card from a 2821 while the router
> > is up and running?
> >
> > We need to replace flaky flash with a new one, but I would rather not
> > have to talk a remote tech (low skillset) through a ROMMON TFTP
> > operation..
> >
> > If not, we can do it the hard way....but I have heard rumors that it works...
> >
> > If it does, what are the risks...
> >
> >
> >
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