Yeah, but do they come with the $600+ needle-nose pliars like the ones that come with Juniper CFs in the upgrade kits? ;)
David 2008/5/5 Dave Diller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> It turns out that some SanDisk Extreme III 1G cards are Juniper > >> friendly, and others are not. We purchased three at the same time > >> from the same CompUSA. Of the three, two do not work and the third > >> one is fine. The symptom is that the non-functional ones time out and > >> you can't install anything on them (but 6509's are fine with them, so > >> they'll be redeployed there ;-): > > > > I believe the distinction is that some (usually modern high-speed > > units, > > or especially cheap regular units) CF cards do not support PIO mode, > > and > > assume that anyone in their right mind buying a 1G CF is going to > > plug it > > into a device which supports UDMA, and high speed UDMA at that. > > True in general but not in this specific case; the Extreme IIIs have > always supported PIO modes 0 - 6 and older date-coded ones work fine > with both RE-4.0 and Sup720. Newer ones don't work with RE-4.0 but > are still fine in Sup720. Something changed internally and makes > Juniper puke, even though the card is labelled the same. Different > chip? Clocking tolerances? Donno. > > > You're best off getting a regular classic SanDisk with PIO support, > > there are no > > benefits to be had by putting nice CFs into old and crappy hosts. ' > > Agreed, the hardware certainly isn't going to be able to make use of > the faster card. The main benefit to the "nice" 1G Extreme IIIs has > been ready availability at any walk-in store and low price. But that > seems to no longer be the case unless you find old stock. > > But, OTOH, "standard" 1G Sandisk [SDCFB-1024-A10] is $18.95 on Amazon. > That's just nuts. Especially since they sell the 512M version for > $32.95 ;-) > > -dd > > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp > _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
