From: perkinsr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed Jun 12 2002 - 23:28:47 GMT-3
I just found out that what I have is actually a very tiny disk drive. I
tried a 48 meg flash ram card also from sandisk and it works fine. It is
really cool, I just dump an IOS image to it then put it in the router and
copy from one slot to the other and its upgraded, no tftp to worry about or
wait on. I am glad this worked because for some reason today my tftp server
crashed every time i tried to connect to it.
It seems that the little disk drive would cause my laptop to blue screen
when the disk would try to spin up (that is my best guess anyway). I can't
believe this card has a disk in it, it is slightly thicker and heavier than
the flash ram card.
Ray
-----Original Message-----
From: carl.newman@elynxtech.com [mailto:carl.newman@elynxtech.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 7:21 PM
To: perkinsr@WellsFargo.COM
Subject: RE: FlashDisk
I have the same disk. It works in my 7200's and not my laptop. I have an
old 16 meg card that came out of a 7500 what my laptop can see. Just not
any thing else!
Carl
-----Original Message-----
From: perkinsr@WellsFargo.COM [mailto:perkinsr@WellsFargo.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 4:29 PM
To: carl.newman@elynxtech.com
Subject: RE: FlashDisk
No replies, I guess we are the only interested parties.
Here is what I have found since my last post:
The product I was using when I got the blue screen was a FLASHDISK which
looks and acts like any other flash memory, but actually contains a very
small disk drive. I realized this when I got another router in the mail
that had a 48meg flash disk from sandisk but looked completly different.
When I asked around I found that one is flash ram the other is a disk. When
I put the flash ram card into my win2k pc I get a drive letter can read and
right to it and then pull it out put it in the router and it can read and
right to it also, they use the same format. I have tried the same thing
with a 20 meg flash ram card from another vendor and it didn't work right,
it prompted me for a driver and i tried several, nothing would work.
The part number for this 832096d, at least that is the only thing that looks
like a part number. The front is mostly blue and says SAN DISK, 48mb, and
PC CARD in various places. On the back it has SANDISK, PCMICA PC CARD ATA
at the top and then has some fine print on the bottom. This is working
great, I have only tried it in a 7100 router, but I don't see why it won't
work in the other routers.
Ray
-----Original Message-----
From: carl.newman@elynxtech.com [mailto:carl.newman@elynxtech.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 1:12 PM
To: perkinsr@WellsFargo.COM
Subject: RE: FlashDisk
Ray:
Did anyone ever respond to your request for information? I have a need to
do the same thing. I have been told about some magic application that can
allow two-way file moves.
If you have in thing to share please do.
Thanks,
Carl Newman
-----Original Message-----
From: perkinsr@WellsFargo.COM [mailto:perkinsr@WellsFargo.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 4:24 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: FlashDisk
Does anyone know how to make the flash PCMCIA cards work as a drive in my
PC? I have had no luck at all with it, but I was just shipped a router with
a sandisk "FLASHDISK/PCMCIA/PC CARD ATA" and when I put into my laptop it
gets a drive letter and I can see the files from windows explorer. However
if I try to manipulate the files I get the blue screen of death.
My goal is to be able to read and write to the flash card and maintain a
format compatible with Cisco devices. If I could just copy an IOS image to
this flash card via my laptop then take it to a router in need of an upgrade
and copy from one flash card to another it could greatly speed upgrades
which is handy at work as well as in management of a CCIE lab.
Thanks for any input you can provide.
Ray Perkins
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