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Using the Flash Disk

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Installing a Flash Disk

• Network file systems—File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Remote Copy Protocol (rcp), and TFTP

• Any other endpoint for reading or writing data—NVRAM, the running configuration, ROM, raw

system memory, system bundled microcode, Xmodem, Flash load helper log, modems, and BRI

MUX interfaces

Note A complete discussion of the Cisco IOS File System feature is beyond the scope of this publication. For

information about this feature, refer to the Configuration Fundamentals Configuration Guide and

Configuration Fundamentals Command Reference publications for Cisco IOS Release 12.x. These

publications are available on the Documentation DVD and through Cisco.com.

Installing a Flash Disk

The Flash Disk is a Type 2 PC Card device. This means that you can install up to two Flash Disks in

system processors with two PC Card slots; there are no PC Card slot-height restrictions related to the

Flash Disk. Further, the PC Card slots in which you install the Flash Disk are either vertically oriented

or horizontally oriented, depending on the system you are using and the system processor installed in it;

therefore, this section provides the following two Flash Disk installation procedures:

• Installing and Removing a Flash Disk in Vertically Oriented Systems, page 10

• Installing and Removing a Flash Disk in Horizontally Oriented Systems, page 12

Determine how your system is oriented, and then use the appropriate procedure.

Use the show version command to verify that a Flash Disk-compatible version of Cisco IOS software is

running on your system:

System> show version

Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software

IOS (tm) 7200 Software (C7200-J-M), Released Version 12.0(2)

(Additional displayed text omitted from this example.)

Installing and Removing a Flash Disk in Vertically Oriented Systems

The procedure in this section is for inserting and ejecting a Flash Disk in systems in which the PC Card

slots are vertically oriented. The procedure is generic and can be used for a Flash Disk in either PC Card

slot position (slot 0 or slot 1). You do not need to turn off system power for this procedure.

Use the following procedure to install and eject a Flash Disk in systems with vertically oriented PC Card

slots:

Step 1 Attach an ESD wrist or ankle strap, connecting the equipment end of the strap to an unfinished chassis

surface.

Step 2 Face the front panel of the system processor that has PC Card slots, which appear as shown in a of

Figure 1.

Hold the Flash Disk with its connector end toward the PC Card slot and its front label facing to the right.

The Flash Disk is keyed and cannot be seated the wrong way. The ejector button does not pop out if the

Flash Disk is not completely inserted.