From: Andrew (arousch@xxxxxxxx)
Date: Mon Apr 23 2001 - 16:47:56 GMT-3
Absolutely you can have 2 8MB flash chips and have them logically be 1 16MB
of flash. You can also run a 15MB image across the two physical flash
chips. Not sure if that was your point or not. You might be confusing the
RAM slot (1) with the FLASH slots (2.)
At 03:02 PM 4/23/01 -0400, louie kouncar wrote:
>The answer to your first question is No, you can't create a 16 mg by using
>two 8 mg flash and run an IOS that requires for example 12 Mg, to do this,
>you need to remove the 8 mg and buy a 16 mg or compress the image if you
>have enough Dram, on the other hand, you can partition a 16 mg flash and use
>it as two 8 mg flash.
>
>As for the second question you can use the following commands to find
>out.....
>
>ERMINAL_SERVER#sh flash chips
>8192K bytes of processor board System flash (Read ONLY)
>
> Chip Bank Code Size Name
> 1 1 89A2 1024KB INTEL 28F008SA
> 2 1 89A2 1024KB INTEL 28F008SA
> 3 1 89A2 1024KB INTEL 28F008SA
> 4 1 89A2 1024KB INTEL 28F008SA
> 1 2 01D5 1024KB AMD 29F080
> 2 2 01D5 1024KB AMD 29F080
> 3 2 01D5 1024KB AMD 29F080
> 4 2 01D5 1024KB AMD 29F080
>Executing current image from System flash
>
>TERMINAL_SERVER#sh flash summary
>Partition Size Used Free Bank-Size State Copy Mode
> 1 8192K 6727K 1464K 4096K Read ONLY RXBOOT-FLH
>8192K bytes of processor board System flash (Read ONLY)
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>Thanks
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
>Andrew
>Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 2:26 PM
>To: Wade Edwards; ccielab@groupstudy.com
>Subject: RE: Flash Upgrade
>
>
>You can do a 'show flash all' on most boxes to tell you what banks are
>populated. No need to open the box :)
>
>At 12:43 PM 4/23/01 -0500, Wade Edwards wrote:
> >Nope. You have to open up the box and look at the flash slots.
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
> >Deepak Puranik
> >Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 12:20 PM
> >To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> >Subject: Flash Upgrade
> >
> >
> >Hi..
> >
> >I am having 2501s with 8 MB Flash and want to upgrade it to 16 MB.
> >
> >Can I add 8 MB Flash and make it work as 16MB Flash ?
> >
> >Is there any command which will tell me that, whether I am using two 4 MB
> >Flash or One 8MB Flash ?
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Deep
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