Technical information

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78-6507-05 Rev. B0
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
• Obtaining Technical Assistance, page 9
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 on page 7 for 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.