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Cisco 7204 Installation and Configuration Guide

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Chapter1 Product Overview

Physical Description

Figure1-17 Cisco 7204 Chassis

PCMCIA Flash Disks and Flash Memory Cards

The Cisco 7204 supports up to two installed PCMCIA Flash Disks or two Flash memory car ds.

Note To avoid potential problems when inserting spare Flash Disks or Flash memory cards in your

Cisco 7204, we recommend that you reformat all of your Flash Disks or Flas h me mor y card s on a

Cisco7204 running one of the recommended Cisco IOS software releases. The chapter Chapter6,

“Maintaining the Cisco7204” contains instructions that explain how to reformat a Flash memory card.

Flash memory (Flash Disks or cards and the Flash SIMM on the I/O controller) allows you to remotely

load and store multiple system and boot helper images. You can download a new image ov er the netwo rk

and then add the new image to Flash memory or replace existing files. You can also transfer images

between Flash Disks or cards and the onboard Flash memory SIMM. You can then boot the router either

manually or automatically from any of the stored images. Flash memory can also function as a TFTP

server to allow other routers to boot remotely from stored images or copy them into their own Flash

memory.

Note For procedures that explain the use of the PCMCIA Flash Disk, refer to the Using the Flash Disk

document .

For procedures that explain how to repl ace m ain, Flash, and ROM monitor memory in Cisco7200 series

routers, refer to the Memory Replacement Instructions for the Network Processing Engine and

Input/Output Controller document.

The preceding documents are available on Cisco.com. Instructions for installing and removing a Flash

memory card are also contained in the “Installing and Removing a Flash Memory Card” section on

page 6-7 in Chapter6, “Maintaining the Cisco 7204” of this guide.

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