Re: Cisco Flash help needed

[Joel Jaeggli <joelja () darkwing uoregon edu>]

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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