Memory PCMCIA Cards 1

[drewmich]

Have some new 85 MG SANDISK ATA memory cards that I want to use with an R9 and newer processor.

Does anyone know how to format or configure the switch to accept these cards? Avaya uses the identical Sandisk ATA PCMCIA cards, but some are in smaller or larger MB formats. Does the switch really care what size it is as long as it is properly formatted for that Relase - Version of processor and is large enough to contain translations etc.?

Andrew Roach
President - Drew Telecom Group, Inc.
Lucent/Avaya Voice Mail-Component-Transtalk Repair Specialists
Lucent/Avaya Telecom Brokers/Resellers
drew@triton.net
269-685-5400 - voice
269-685-5500 - fax

 

[BuckWeet]

There is a command to do this, but its a privledged command to get to.. I know you can reset the system and boot it up without a flash card (so the system is blank) and then you can login and get access to the command. i'm not sure of the default login though. its either lucent3 or dadmin

I can't remember the command either..

 

[drewmich]

BW,

That sounds like useful info if you can help me with that process. Will we be able to format the 85 MG Sandisk card so it will work on the R9 and up processor?

Andrew Roach
President - Drew Telecom Group, Inc.
Lucent/Avaya Voice Mail-Component-Transtalk Repair Specialists
Lucent/Avaya Telecom Brokers/Resellers
drew@triton.net
269-685-5400 - voice
269-685-5500 - fax

 

[pbxman]

as far as i know - you cannot execute this on anything higher than a version 6 switch. V9 will not let you format the card booting up without a mem card in the switch as V6 does. We're on V11 (going up from V6) and i got bit with this limitation. We had to buy new cards at $800/pop from Avaya. Gotta love proprietary software.. :$800 for a $40 card. And Avaya FINALLY made a quarter profit after stocks were down for how many years? Amazing the overhead they must have...

ok - back under my rock now.

pbxman
Systems Administrator

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[lopes1211]

PBXMAN is correct but these can be found used but 100% guarenteed on ebay for about $100e for both the 8MB and 16MB versions. Just search for "Definity Flash". You may even be able to find them available from some trusted veteran tek-tipper's w/ 100% positive feedback!

-CL