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.

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Subject: R100 with 256 meg cf card Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 16:39:10 +1000 From: "George, Andrew" georgea@anz.com To: toasters@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