>Of course I'm not saying that I *Want* to use an HD in this situation; flash
>is clearly a big win.In my experience flash is a lot _less_ reliable than HDs. Ciscos losing
flash contents aren't that uncommon.
Is this a general statement about flash, or just about the flash in Ciscos?
I'd find it hard to believe that well designed solid state devices could
be lest reliable than a disk drive, especially since a large part of a disk
drive is solid state as well.
==>Is this a general statement about flash, or just about the flash in Ciscos?
==>I'd find it hard to believe that well designed solid state devices could
==>be lest reliable than a disk drive, especially since a large part of a disk
==>drive is solid state as well.
In all the experience I have had with ciscos, I have only seen three
instances in which some type of memory was lost:
* An old CGS lost its NVRAM config due to invalid checksum
* A 3204's NVRAM had a problem approximately 1000 bytes into the config.
If you had a small config, it would work fine, but when you write a
larger config to memory, then reload, it would report that checksum was
invalid.
* A 1003's PCMCIA socket believed any flash card inserted was
write-protected. This could have been due to bent PCMCIA pins, but I
didn't bother to find out.
/cah