[j-nsp] RE233 flash refurb

[Richard A Steenbergen]

On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 04:48:11PM -0700, Chris Cappuccio wrote:
> I was setting up an old M40 as a lab box (and as a backup chassis for an M20,
> should the need arise!)  The first thing I wanted to do was get rid of the
> ancient 80MB Sandisk flash box.  Old flash seems to be the enemy of old
> Junipers.
> 
> I just thought the list might like to know that the PC Engines CFDISK.2G
> (CF to 44 pin IDE) adapter fits the RE233 _perfectly_.  You just take out
> the little aluminum tray that holds the whole thing, and unscrew the
> 80MB crap and the stand-offs.  Then,  place the CFDISK.2G with CF
> of your choice and mount it to the aluminum carrier's matching holes
> with regular PC case screws (the finely threaded ones that work with a
> floppy or cdrom).
> 
> Everything fits together perfectly, even the IDE cable fits perfectly around
> the top of the CFDISK adapter and ends up in the right position.. It is very
> convenient that the CFDISK adapter has screw holes and built-in standoffs that
> are a complete match to the aluminum tray. 

Flash is not the enemy of the RE-233/1.0, though these days you probably 
can't even install a modern image onto it (you certainly can't do a 
jbundle upgrade on a 96MB CF stock RE-333/2.0 without extensive hacks 
since 7.2, or "at all" since 7.4). It's a Pentium Pro 233MHz for gods 
sake, you can't put enough EDO memory into it to load a routing table. 
It's trash, dispose of it accordingly.

M40s are still cool for experimenting with though. You can power pretty 
much anything off of the cPCI board, and hook up pretty much anything into 
the PFE via rj45. Some day soon I will have to upload a picture of an M40 
running dual-RE Teknor 6U blade server boards w/hacked bios that is 
connected to the backplane via a little 5 port netgear hub to 
juniper.cluepon.net. :)

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