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Catalyst 6500 Series Supervisor Engine Flash PC Card Installation Note
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Contents
Contents
This installation note contains the following sections:
•Supervisor Engine Flash PC Cards, page 2
•Preventing Electrostatic Discharge Damage, page 3
•Installing and Removing a Flash PC Card, page 3
•Using Flash PC Cards, page 6
•Additional Documentation, page 8
•Obtaining Documentation, page 8
•Documentation Feedback, page 9
•Cisco Product Security Overview, page 9
•Obtaining Technical Assistance, page 10
•Obtaining Additional Publications and Information, page 12
Supervisor Engine Flash PC Cards
The supervisor engine Flash PC cards conform with the PCMCIA format. These models are available:
•16-MB MEM-C6K-FLC16M
•24-MB MEM-C6K-FLC24M
•64-MB MEM-C6K-FLC64M
•MEM-C6K-ATA-1-64M
Note The 16-MB MEM-C6K-FLC16M and 24-MB MEM-C6K-FLC24M linear Flash PC cards are formatted
for the Catalyst 6500 series supervisor engines and are ready to use.
The MEM-C6K-ATA-1-64M and 64-MB MEM-C6K-FLC64M Flash PC cards are not formatted. You
must format these cards (See Table 1 on page 7 Commands for Using and Managing Flash DevicesTable 1for
a description of the format command.) When you enter the dir disk0: or dir slot0: commands, an
unformatted Flash PC card returns a “bad device block info” or “invalid magic number” error message.
Note Supervisor Engine 1 and Supervisor Engine 2 do not support the same Flash PC card format. To use a
Flash PC card with Supervisor Engine 2, you must format the card with Supervisor Engine 2. To use a
Flash PC card with Supervisor Engine 1, you must format the card with Supervisor Engine 1.
You can use Flash PC cards to store and boot software images, or they can be used as servers to store
software images for other systems. You can configure each supervisor engine with one Flash PC card in
slot 0. Figure 1 shows the front panel of a supervisor engine with the single PCMCIA slot, slot 0.