Format in the SP? It's not running the CatOS (Hybrid), so I am not operating out of that space anymore - all I have is the RP to run commands like that...
Am I missing something here Toby? On 1/22/09 9:33 PM, "Toby Glover" <[email protected]> wrote: > I have seen this before, SP and RP use a different formatting > > If you format the flash in SP it will be able to read it. > > #format disk0: > > > -- > Toby Glover, R&D Network Engineer > eintellego Pty Ltd - The Networking Specialists > [email protected] / www.eintellego.net > Phone: 1300 753 383, Fax: (+612) 8572 9954 > Cell +61 (0)433 808 165 / skype://yobledoc > -- > > Disclaimer: Limits of Liability and Disclaimer: This message is for the named > person's use only. It may contain sensitive and private proprietary or legally > privileged information. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, > distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the > intended recipient. eintellego Pty Ltd and each legal entity in the Tefilah > Pty Ltd group of companies reserve the right to monitor all e-mail > communications through its networks. Any views expressed in this message are > those of the individual sender, except where the message states otherwise and > the sender is authorised to state them to be the views of any such entity. Any > reference to costs, fee quotations, contractual transactions and variations to > contract terms is subject to separate confirmation in writing signed by an > authorised representative of eintellego. Whilst all efforts are made to > safeguard inbound and outbound e-mails, we cannot guarantee that attachments > are virus-free or compatible with your systems and do not accept any liability > in respect of viruses or computer problems experienced. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Graham Wooden > Sent: Friday, 23 January 2009 1:45 PM > To: [email protected] > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
