He appears to have done that.. the erase command is the format function for the 3600 flash card...
Larry Letterman Network Engineer Cisco Systems > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Symon Thurlow > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 11:43 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: IOS Download to the new flash [7:66739] > > > Can you format flash in a 3600? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Larry Letterman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 03 April 2003 10:49 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: IOS Download to the new flash [7:66739] > > > Looks like a bad flash card..try another flash card.. > if it wont erase correctly, I dont think it will copy the file and > be usable... > > > Larry Letterman > Network Engineer > Cisco Systems > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > > > Mamoon Dawood > > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 12:36 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: IOS Download to the new flash [7:66739] > > > > > > Dear All, > > > > While tring to download an IOS to the new (Clear) flash of a 3662 > > router using the xmodem method, and after finishing the download and > > reload, we got the following message, > > > > > > device does not contain a valid magic number > > boot: cannot open "flash:" > > boot: cannot determine first file name on device "flash:" > > > > > > > > Erasing flash at 0x30000000sector erase failed at location 0x30000000, > > > status 0x 20202020 > > > > > > Please advise what we sould do to download the IOS, > > > > Thanks, > ============================================= > > This email has been content filtered and > subject to spam filtering. If you consider > this email is unsolicited please forward > the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > request that the sender's domain be > blocked from sending any further emails. > > ============================================= > > > > ===================================== Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=66788&t=66739 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]