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Re: Cisco Flash help needed

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Lockhart)
Mon Feb 12 04:29:00 2001

To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
Cc: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 10 Feb 2001 18:43:48 +0800."
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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 09:25:15 +0000
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From: Simon Lockhart <simonl@rd.bbc.co.uk>
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>> And then, of course, there's the 1Gb IBM Microdrive.
>
>Has anyone tried this with a cisco, just out of morbid curiousity?
>The requirements for a flash filesystem are different from a disk
>filesystem..

I just had to try it...

rt0#dir disk1:
Directory of disk1:/

No files in directory

1075347456 bytes total (1075347456 bytes free)

rt0#sh disk1: all
******** ATA Flash Card Geometry/Format Info ********

ATA CARD GEOMETRY
   Number of Heads:       64    
   Number of Cylinders    2088  
   Sectors per Cylinder   63    
   Sector Size            512   
   Total Sectors          8418816

ATA CARD FORMAT
   Number of FAT Sectors  129   
   Sectors Per Cluster    64    
   Number of Clusters     32817 
   Number of Data Sectors 2100609
   Base Root Sector       259   
   Base FAT Sector        1     
   Base Data Sector       291   

Simon
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