Re: 2500 Flash upgrade

From: Nick Shah (nshah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Wed Apr 10 2002 - 00:13:10 GMT-3


   
It cannot read ur flash properly, or rather cannot read it it as *whole*. I
would suggest reversing them (putting AMD in slot 1 and the intel in slot 2)
give it a try. If it still gives probs. you might need to get *same*
flashes.

Nick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry Chou" <henchou@hotmail.com>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 12:22 PM
Subject: 2500 Flash upgrade

> Hi all,
>
> I just upgraded flash for my 2500 to 16 mb (1x8mb Intel and 1x8mb AMD).
And
> now I'm having trouble upgrading IOS imgage. Can someone give me a
pointer.
> I read something in the archive about there may be problems when mix and
> match flash from different manufacturers. Thanks for any help.
>
> Thanks
>
> See below for some screen captures.
>
>
> System Bootstrap, Version 5.2(5), RELEASE SOFTWARE
> Copyright (c) 1986-1994 by cisco Systems
> 2500 processor with 16384 Kbytes of main memory
>
> ERR: Invalid chip id 0x80B5 (reversed = 0x1AD ) detected in System flash
> % System flash query failed. Access will be RD-ONLY
>
>
> Proceed? [confirm]
> Address or name of remote host []? 192.168.1.100
> Source filename []? c2500-jos56i-l.121-14.bin
> Destination filename [c2500-jos56i-l.121-14.bin]?
> Accessing tftp://192.168.1.100/c2500-jos56i-l.121-14.bin...
> %Error opening tftp://192.168.1.100/c2500-jos56i-l.121-14.bin (Timed out)
>
> Router#sh flash all
> Partition Size Used Free Bank-Size State Copy
Mode
> 1 16384K 7258K 9125K 8192K Read ONLY
RXBOOT-FLH
>
> System flash directory:
> File Length Name/status
> addr fcksum ccksum
> 1 7432656 c2500-i-l.120-7.T.bin
> 0x40 0x6405 0x6405
> [7432720 bytes used, 9344496 available, 16777216 total]
> 16384K bytes of processor board System flash (Read ONLY)
>
> Chip Bank Code Size Name
> 1 1 89A0 2048KB INTEL 28F016SA
> 2 1 89A0 2048KB INTEL 28F016SA
> 3 1 89A0 2048KB INTEL 28F016SA
> 4 1 89A0 2048KB INTEL 28F016SA
> 1 2 01AD 2048KB AMD 29F016
> 2 2 01AD 2048KB AMD 29F016
> 3 2 01AD 2048KB AMD 29F016
> 4 2 01AD 2048KB AMD 29F016
> Executing current image from System flash
> Router#
>



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