Definitely upgrade your software before anything else. -- Randy
---------- Original Message ----------- From: Chris Scott <[email protected]> To: [email protected], [email protected] Sent: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 13:57:08 +0000 Subject: Re: [c-nsp] CompactFlash card compatibility > 2009/12/3 <[email protected]>: > > Chris, > > Is it possible that you need the WS-CF-UPG aka CF-ADAPTER-SP for your older SUP. I think it is included in the newer 720s > > Nick > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Scott > > Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 8:20 AM > > To: Brian Fitzgerald; Walter Keen; [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [c-nsp] CompactFlash card compatibility > > > > 2009/12/2 Brian Fitzgerald <[email protected]>: > >> We have been using the Kingston CF/4GB Type I - they work fine, with same > >> caveat as Randy posted - format them in the Sup first. > > > > I have a 2-week old Sup720-3B running 12.2(33)SXI3 that formats and > > can use a Kingston CF/1GB no probs. My other Sup720-3B is 4 years old > > running 12.2(18)SXD3. It gives me "device not found" when trying to > > dir or format the same card. Don't know if this is a HW or SW > > difference. Newer Sup has 512MB sup-bootflash, older has a mere 64MB. > > Won't be able to empirically test until I take the plunge and do the > > IOS update on the Sup that's been up for 4 years :-/ The older Sup > > takes SanDisk 256MB CF II card ok so that's enough for today's current > > and rollback image needs. > > Hi Nick > > I'd glanced that doc before but disregarded it too quickly because I > don't want to pay any money right now :) It was well worth > mentioning as now that I've read it properly I can see that there's > HW, ROMMON and SW interaction all involved to support the larger > sizes. I guess if I upgrade the SP ROMMON on the older Sup720 it > might read the 1GB CF card. If I'm really keen, it may also be > possible to find reference to this in some IOS release notes. > Ideally, I'd buy that kit so that no random person with access to my > DC can push "eject" and sabotage my boot. I'd been looking into the > CF support as I came into possession of a handful of 1GB CF II cards > that are too slow and weeny for pics and tunes but right on par with > the Sup720 model of storage. > > Cheers > -- > Chris > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ ------- End of Original Message ------- _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
