When you run download, the command kicks off another process that
repartitions the card for you.
Glenn
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com]
On Behalf Of Brian Parent
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 11:44 AM
To: George, Andrew
Cc: toasters(a)mathworks.com
Subject: Re: R100 with 256 meg cf card
You may have already solved this issue, but I was recently poking
around at the same problem for us. I was able to put the 32MB CF
card on a Solaris box, use the 'dd' utility to make a bit for bit
copy of the CF card onto a file. Then I put the 256MB CF card on
the Solaris box, and used 'dd' to copy the file onto the 256MB
CF card. I then installed the 256MB card on my R100 running
DOT 6.4.5, and was able to run the download command successfully.
The problem, I think, is that the newer releases (> 6.4) expect a
different
partition layout, and that 6.4 wants to see four partitions.
Obviously there are other ways to create the partitions, but
dd was simplest for me, copying the data as well as the partitions
tables.
I'm hoping that when I upgrade to 6.5 or 7.x, the upgrade process
will repartition the CF card as necessary. I've got a call into
NetApp about this, but have been waiting (since Feb 1, 2006) for
an answer.
Re:
> Subject: R100 with 256 meg cf card
> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 16:39:10 +1000
> From: "George, Andrew" <georgea(a)anz.com>
> To: <toasters(a)mathworks.com>
>
> I've tried to upgrade two r100's from 32 meg CF cards to 256 meg CF
> cards (so we can have a backup boot image with OnTap 6.5)
> On both occasions it's pretty much choked as soon as it's tried to see
> the 256 meg card and we've had to do some messing around to get a
single
> image onto the card
>
> I'm beginning to think that an R100 running 6.4.x just can't see a
> 256meg cf card correctly and was wondering if anyone else has had a
> problem doing this?
>
> Andrew