Flash memory and the 2500 series

[qc...@my-deja.com]

Hi,

I have a 2513 router where a show flash all shows:

System flash directory:
File Length Name/status
addr fcksum ccksum
1 3928052 igs-i-l_111.24
0x40 0x506D 0x506D
[3928116 bytes used, 266188 available, 4194304
total]
4096K bytes of processor board System flash (Read
ONLY)

Chip Bank Code Size Name
1 1 89A2 1024KB INTEL
28F008SA
2 1 89A2 1024KB INTEL
28F008SA
3 1 89A2 1024KB INTEL
28F008SA
4 1 89A2 1024KB INTEL
28F008SA
Executing current image from System flash

a show version shows (amongst other things)

cisco 2500 (68030) processor (revision C) with
4096K/2048K bytes of memory.

I spoke to our suppliers and said that I'd like
to upgrade the memory in the
router to 8MB so that I could upgrade the IOS at
a later date. They've sent
me an expensive 8MB PCMIA Flash memory card. I
opened the router and found
that on the left there is an empty socket that
looks as though it would take
a PCMIA card but I am not sure if the lid would
close if I did install it.
Since the suspected PCMIA socket is empty I guess
the System Flash is made
up of the memory that is in a SIMM card in the
middle of the router (with an
empty socket beneath it) or in the single SIMM
card on the right.

What's the score here? Can I use this PCMIA card
or have I been shipped the
wrong thing? What about the 2048K bytes of memory
shown in the show version.
Where does this come from and how do I upgrade
that? I think I need to be at
8192/4096 to run 11.2 which is where I would like
to get to.

Thanks in advance

Quentin

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[Kinner, Ronald]

You have the wrong flash. What you have sounds like the flash card used for
the 7000 series. On a 2500 the flash looks like a regular SIMM. We just
upgraded our 2500 (don't remember the model) by adding a second flash simm.

There were two slots for flash over on the right edge of the board see http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/access/acs_fix/cis2500/2500cfig/59375.htm


I think the flashcard slot is for a future option and is only available on
the newest versions. Don't remember seeing it on ours. The card should
stick through a slot in the cover so if there is no slot then they haven't
started using them yet.

Ron

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[Michael Shorts]

Kinner, Ronald <rki...@directvgla.com> wrote in message

> I think the flashcard slot is for a future option and is only available on
> the newest versions. Don't remember seeing it on ours. The card should
> stick through a slot in the cover so if there is no slot then they haven't
> started using them yet.

Actually the flash card was in older models and was removed in later ones.
It was a type 1 PCMCIA which could only address 2 MB (way too small for
IOS). It could actually substitute for you boot ROM, and originally Cisco
did feature set licensing via the PCMCIA. And as observed, you couldn't even
put the cover on with a card in the slot.

Michael