Re: OT: 6500 Compact Flash Memory

From: Jeremy O'Dette (jeremyodette@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Dec 15 2005 - 13:59:56 GMT-3


Thanks for the info James... I guess we just got lucky with the image we
loaded.

Jeremy O'Dette
CCIE 14973
jeremyodette@hotmail.com

>From: James Ventre <messageboard@ventrefamily.com>
>To: "Jeremy O'Dette" <jeremyodette@hotmail.com>
>CC: Upp_and_Upp@hotmail.com, ccielab@groupstudy.com
>Subject: Re: OT: 6500 Compact Flash Memory
>Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:43:47 -0500
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>Jeremy O'Dette wrote:
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>I'm curious which native mode image you're using? We just upgraded a
>pair of 6500s to sup720s/native mode running what I thought was the
>latest enterprise feature set and its only ~48MB. Here's what we're
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> From: James Ventre
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>Reply-To: James Ventre <messageboard@ventrefamily.com>
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>To: "Jeremy O'Dette" <jeremyodette@hotmail.com>
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>CC: Upp_and_Upp@hotmail.com, ccielab@groupstudy.com
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>Subject: Re: OT: 6500 Compact Flash Memory
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>Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:24:26 -0500
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> >It is possible to configure a boot statement that would force the
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>You dont have much of a choice with Native Mode on a Sup720. The image
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>sizes are now ~75 MB and the internal flash is only 64MB.
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>Jeremy O'Dette wrote:
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> The 6500s do not require either PCMCIA flash (in the case of a sup1
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> configuration files, or crash dumps. It is possible to configure a
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> boot statement that would force the switch to load its image off of a
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> flash card but I wouldn't do that in production in case some removes
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> Jeremy O'Dette
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