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Re: Cisco Flash help needed

  • From: Joe Shaw
  • Date: Fri Feb 09 16:24:20 2001

On 9 Feb 2001, Sean Donelan wrote:

> True, as you know, a "carrier-grade environment" can be pretty
> bad.  I might as well ask, What is the MTBF after being exposed
> to the UPS shipping environment.
>
> Historically, the reason why I've tried to keep rotating storage
> media out of my critical POP equipment it requires too much
> maintenance.  I'm old enough to remember routers with evil boot
> floppies.

I may not be that old, but I remember boot floppies in Xyplex gear.  And
yes, they were quite evil.

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Joseph W. Shaw
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