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Chapter6 Maintaining the Cisco 7204 Installing and Removing a Flash Memory Card
Installing and Removing a Flash Memory Card
The I/O controller has two PCMCIA slots for Flash memory ca rds: slot 0 ( l ower) an d s lot 1 (upper).
Complete the following steps to insert a Flash memory card in either PCMCIA slot:
Note To avoid potential problems when inserting spare Flash memory cards in your Cisco 7204, we
recommend that you reformat all of your Flash memory cards on a Cisco 7204 running one of the
recommended Cisco IOS software releases listed in Software Advisor. The section “Reformatting a
Flash Memory Card” section on page6-12 contains instructions that explain how to re fo rm at a
Flash memory card.
Step1 Orient the Flash memory card so that its connector end faces the appropriate slot. (Refer to Figure6-5a.)
Step2 Carefully guide the card into the slot until the card seats in the slot’s connector and the eject button for
the slot pops out toward you. (Refer to Figure 6-5b.)
Note Flash memory cards do not insert all the way into the PCMCIA slots; the end of the card
protrudes from the I/O controller faceplate. Do not attempt to force the card past this point.
Complete the following steps to remove a Flash memory card from either PCMCIA slot:
Step1 Press the ejector button on the slot. (Refer to Figure6-5c.)
Step2 Grasp the card and pull it from the slot.
Step3 Place the card in an antistatic bag.
This completes the steps for inserting and removing a Flash memory card.