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AS/400 IBM Network Station: Techniques for Deployment in a WAN
3.1 Flash Card Support
The IBM Network Station products only work with linear C series and linear D
series PCMCIA type II Flash memory cards. The maximum size of C series
technology is limited to 10MB. However, D series cards are currently available
in various sizes with up to 32MB of capacity and in the near future will support
as much as 40Mbytes of storage capacity.
Flash cards can be purchased from several manufacturers. IBM does not
manufacture or resell these cards.
During the residency, we tested Flash cards from Centennial Technologies
(http://www.cent-tech.com) and from Simple Technology
(http://www.simpletech.com).
Simple Technology offers a full line of D series cards. Centennial
Technologies and Simple Technology's part numbers for the various size
cards they can supply, that have been tested, are shown in Table 15.
Table 15. PCMCIA Flash Card Part Numbers
Customers who purchased special C/D series Simple Flash memory cards for
use with Release 2 of the Network Station Manager program can continue to
use these cards.
PCMCIA Flash Card Size
(in Megabytes)
Centennial Technologies
Part Number
Simple Technology
Part Number
8 Mb N/A STI-ST/8AA
12 Mb PM24138 STI-FL/12AA
16Mb PM24114 STI-FL/16AA
20 Mb PM24162 STI-FL/20AA
24 Mb PM24136 STI-FL/24AA
28 Mb PM24501 STI-FL/28AA *
32 Mb PM24265 STI-FL/32AA *
Note:
Some Series 100 IBM Network Stations do not function with these Flash
cards from Simple Technologies. The Network Station does not boot with the card
installed. However, it does boot as soon as the card is removed. IBM is working with
Simple to correct the problem.