Gert Doering wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 04:19:12PM -0400, Deepak Jain wrote: >> Ahh... now this raises the question. >> >> Has anyone actually fired up a 720 in a larger chassis (say a 9-slot) >> without any cards and seen what kind of power availability it reports? >> Or if it even fires up? > > Well, with a dual-1300W PSU in a 6509, it fires up, complains that you > do not have a FAN2, and shuts down again. > > If you put in a FAN2, it will power up, complain that this combination > of FAN and PSU is not support, and give you about 5 minutes to do what's > necessary before it shuts down the PSU. > > The latter part was a lifesaver for us - we got a Sup720 that was supposed > to run in a 7604, but the IOS was too old for that chassis, so it refused > to boot (crashed) - in the 6509, we could get it to the point where I could > set it to boot from disk0:, and then I could use *that* in the 7604 to > put a useful image onto sup-bootflash:...
Exactly the kind of "in-case" situation I was thinking about... Especially when you have spare hw running around. Deepak _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
