[j-nsp] general guidelines for installing JUNOS to RE, where HDD and CF are blank

HahnC at t-systems.com HahnC at t-systems.com
Mon Feb 21 03:21:27 EST 2011


Hi Martin,

i have SDCFJ-2048 running on RE-2.0 and RE-5.0 since two years. I never tried the "Extreme" models and stuck to "Standard" speed CF instead, because of issue reports from others. Hope this helps.

good luck,
Christian

>-----Original Message-----
>From: juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net 
>[mailto:juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Martin T
>Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 10:45 PM
>To: Jonas Frey (Probe Networks)
>Cc: juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net; pekkas at netcore.fi
>Subject: Re: [j-nsp] general guidelines for installing JUNOS 
>to RE, where HDD and CF are blank
>
>Pekka,
>by "Extreme model" did you mean this one: http://mcaf.ee/7f49a ?
>
>Jonas,
>did I understand correctly, that SDCFB-512-A10(http://mcaf.ee/9f345)
>and SDCFB-1024-A10(http://mcaf.ee/b2d7a) are both tested and 
>suitable for JONOS installation from CF using "install image" 
>method? Any other CF cards, which are confirmed to work?
>
>regards,
>martin
>
>2011/2/14 Martin T <m4rtntns at gmail.com>:
>> Ok, so for example those two should work for sure:
>> 
>SDCFB-512-A10(http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-CompactFlash-SDCFB-512-A10
>> -Retail-Package/dp/B00006B9QF) and 
>> 
>SDCFB-1024-A10(http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-SDCFB-1024-A10-Typ
>e-Retail-Package/dp/B00006AE3K)?
>> Any other CF cards, which are confirmed to work? The one I 
>tried(with 
>> no luck so far), 1GB "SiliconDrive CF"(SiliconSystems, Inc. 
>Now owned 
>> by Western Digital) SSD-C01G-3596, looks like this:
>> http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/8923/jsdd.jpg
>>
>>
>> regards,
>> martin
>>
>> 2011/2/11 Jonas Frey (Probe Networks) <jf at probe-networks.de>:
>>> Ohh...well there are so many models and partnumbers of 
>these i guess 
>>> its hard to test all of them. Maybe we should write down working 
>>> partnumbers on the cluepon wiki. The "blue" SanDisk ones 
>are atleast 
>>> the same as juniper used time ago. After that they switched 
>to simple 
>>> tech and probably others (atleast on T320/T640 RE-1600/RE-2000).
>>>
>>>
>>> Am Freitag, den 11.02.2011, 12:14 +0200 schrieb Pekka Savola:
>>>> On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Jonas Frey (Probe Networks) wrote:
>>>> > I doubt the PCMCIA Adapter is the problem. I guess its the 
>>>> > CF....maybe its too new. I know about serveral newer CF 
>cards not working in RE2/3.
>>>> > Try to get a regular SanDisk 1GB+ CF. (not the 
>Ultra/Extreme models).
>>>> > This should work.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for providing the soapbox ;-).  Extreme model worked for us 
>>>> on RE3.0 fine, except that its performance is too good.  
>Juniper RE 
>>>> CPU gets overloaded when writing an image on it and it drops BGP 
>>>> sessions etc. This is not a bug according to JTAC. Be aware if you 
>>>> ever need to do CF flashing on live equipment :P
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
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