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Chapter 6 Maintaining the Cisco 7204

Installing and Removing a Flash Memory Card

The I/O controller has two PCMCIA slots for Flash memory cards: slot 0 (lower) and slot 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 page 6-12 contains instructions that explain how to reformat a

Flash memory card.

Step 1 Orient the Flash memory card so that its connector end faces the appropriate slot. (Refer to Figure 6-5a.)

Step 2 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:

Step 1 Press the ejector button on the slot. (Refer to Figure 6-5c.)

Step 2 Grasp the card and pull it from the slot.

Step 3 Place the card in an antistatic bag.

This completes the steps for inserting and removing a Flash memory card.