From: Martin, Chris (chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Mon Apr 23 2001 - 17:46:54 GMT-3
I would have to agree with vincent. I have a 2513 that has 2 8meg modules in
it. Which totals the flash size to 16 mg, which allows me to tftp ios 12.1.7
which requires 16mb of flash/RAM
-C
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vincent Lee" <VincentL@pcmall.com>
To: "'louie kouncar'" <lkouncar@UU.NET>; "'Andrew'" <arousch@home.com>;
<ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 1:21 PM
Subject: RE: Flash Upgrade
> I don't agree with you. I installed two 8MB flash memory in several
> routers.
> So I can upgrade to enterprise IOS which size is more than 8MB.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: louie kouncar [mailto:lkouncar@UU.NET]
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 1:10 PM
> To: 'Andrew'; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: RE: Flash Upgrade
>
>
> Andrew,
>
> Well I can tell you that you are absolutely wrong, the IOS CAN NOT be
> divided over flash chips, it has to fit on one and only one, therefore,
you
> will not be able to have an IOS that is larger than 8mg even if you have
two
> 8mg flash for a total of 16mg, they will still be two separate 8 mg flash.
>
>
> Thank you
>
>
>
> Louie J. Kouncar (CCIE)/Written
> TCO3 Senior Data Center Engineer
> UUNET
> W-703-343-6645
> C-703-304-2460
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew [mailto:arousch@home.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 3:48 PM
> To: lkouncar@UU.NET; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: RE: Flash Upgrade
>
>
> 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)
> >
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Louie J. Kouncar (CCIE)/Written
> >TCO3 Senior Data Center Engineer
> >UUNET
> >W-703-343-6645
> >C-703-304-2460
> >
> >
> >
> >-----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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