7200 PCMCIA Hotswap?

[ewiley]

I know someone mentioned that you can hotswap PCMCIA flash cards on a 3640, but what about on a 7200? I just want to be absolutely certain, because this is our core production router that I need to copy an image from and I don't want to kill it for lack of a little late-night downtime!

Thank you!

 

[thethmon]

I have hot-swapped my PCMCIA on 7206 and 7206VXR without problems before. Although I've only able to hot-swap the PA's about 50% of the time without a system crash. Todd Hethmon
thethmon@hethmon.com

 

[CaMedic]

You can Hot swap any PCMCIA card that where the router accesses it durring boot only.

Yes the 7200 is Absolutly one of those.

 

[ewiley]

Woo, thanks guys, it works perfectly.. However I ran into an interesting situation with a 48mb flash disk. The odd thing was, when I inserted it into a working 7200, it recognized it and I could copy files to it, but the non-working router would not see a magic number on the disk0: So I reformatted the disk and copied the files again and the other router could read it perfectly. So it looks like the full IOS is better at handling different formats of PCMCIA flash disks than the RomMon image does..

Just a little word to the wise, just incase you're like me and the only functioning 7200 router is 55 miles away

 

[wybnormal]

heheheh... only 55 miles?? where is the *up hill both ways* and *snow both ways*

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