{"id":3220,"date":"2011-10-11T01:01:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T07:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=3220"},"modified":"2011-10-07T08:03:14","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T14:03:14","slug":"standard-compact-flash-card-in-a-cisco-router","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=3220","title":{"rendered":"Standard Compact Flash Card In A Cisco Router"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s well known that Cisco wants to sell you a 512MB compact flash card for $150. So, what’s so special about the Cisco branded ones? They have a Cisco sticker on them.<\/p>\n

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One fancy sticker there<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I just bought a couple of 2GB compact flash cards, formatted them in my router, and they work like a champ!<\/p>\n

No flash card inserted:<\/strong>
\nRouter#show flash
\n%Error show flash: (No device available)
\nRouter#<\/p>\n

Insert new 2GB flash:<\/strong>
\nFlash card inserted in flash. Reading filesystem on the device…
\nWait for the completion message before accessing device
\nFilesystem read completed in flash.
\nDevice in flash available for use<\/p>\n

*Oct 6 19:59:18.411: %FILESYS-5-CF: CompactFlash inserted
\nRouter#show flash
\n%Error show flash: (Invalid DOS media or no media in slot)<\/p>\n

Time to format the drive with the good old format command:<\/strong>
\nRouter#format ?
\n flash: Filesystem to be formatted<\/p>\n

Router#format flash:
\nFormat operation may take a while. Continue? [confirm]
\nFormat operation will destroy all data in “flash:”. Continue? [confirm]
\nFormat: Drive communication & 1st Sector Write OK…
\nWriting Monlib sectors.
\n…………………………………………………………………………………………………………
\nMonlib write complete
\n….
\nFormat: All system sectors written. OK…<\/p>\n

Format: Total sectors in formatted partition: 3905809
\nFormat: Total bytes in formatted partition: 1999774208
\nFormat: Operation completed successfully.<\/p>\n

Format of flash complete<\/p>\n

Now to check the drive:<\/strong>
\nRouter#show flash
\nNo files on device<\/p>\n

1999437824 bytes available (0 bytes used)<\/p>\n

It takes a whole 2 minutes to take a standard off the shelf compact flash drive and prepare it for use with your routers. Now you can super size your order with all the money you will save!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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