Hello, What version of JunOS are you running on them? We had a similar problem last year, and Juniper actually replaced our RE.
As for flash memory, we're using a SanDisk card as the main boot media now. From what I understand, the Juniper CF cards are just rebranded SanDisk cards. Regards, John Raniery Pontes wrote: > Hi everybody, > > we´ve been running different M-series boxes including ~20 M7i´s. In > the last 12 months, we had an issue with 3 of these M7i´s: they crashed > and couldn´t recover "by themselves". These failures happened usually in > association to power failures in facilities, and logs also indicate > problems when writing to the hard-disk. > > These boxes only have a hard-drive as storage media, so there isn´t a > flash memory in the routers. > > After the crash, usually we´ve seen these routers continuously trying to > boot from HD, but without success. Then, we had to disconect power, take > a breath (it´s serious, about 5 minutes long) and power up the router > again. After that, theses routers were able to recover, loading Junos > correctly. > > Disregarding what may have have caused these crashes, I´m worried about > the recovering capacities of these boxes, after a crash. > > So, I´ve got a simple questions: how dangerous is to run these boxes, > without a flash card ? > > I´d like to know if everybody thinks this is a really bad idea, or it > shouldn´t be really an issue and I simply had bad luck. > > > Thanks > _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
