[34512] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco Flash help needed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Fri Feb 9 11:35:47 2001
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 08:32:33 -0800 (PST)
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
To: Simon Lockhart <simonl@rd.bbc.co.uk>
Cc: "[Put-your-name-here]" <lmnguyen@UU.NET>,
<cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Simon Lockhart wrote:
>
> >Anyone know if there's already something like this for NT? :)
>
> No - although now I've done the work of working out the format, I'm sure
> someone will do it.
>
> >What exactly is the purpose anyway? Extra storage? If so, how fast can
> >the labtop write/read to the flash?
>
> The purpose is to avoid having to use tftp to get files on/off the cisco.
> The laptop can read the cards at the same speed as the cisco.
>
> >What is the biggest size of a flash
> >anyone ever seen?
>
> The biggest I've got is 20M
the biggest I've seen from cisco is 24MB
> > I only saw 110M card before.
>
> I think you get up into the PCMCIA hard drives at those capacities.
the biggest ata-flash cards (type II pcmcia) are around 800MB right now
http://www.simpletech.com/flash/ata.html
> >While we are on the subject, is there way to look at the source code of the
> >cisco ios?
>
> Yes - go work for Cisco ;)
>
> Simon
>
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