topic Re: Need HELP!! after upgrade of Flash on pix 520 in Network Security

Need HELP!! after upgrade of Flash on pix 520

tlidberg — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 05:54:07 GMT

After putting in the new 16MB flash card, I get some error messages when booting as well as trying to write the conf. The error message is:

assertion "(addr & STRATA_SECTOR_MASK) == 0" failed: file "strata.c", line 307

strata_write_status: write timeout(10000) 0x1fNot success

Insufficient flash space available for this request:

Size info: request:2241 current:2241 delta:0 free:8257536

Since I am new to all of this, I am in need of help!

Tobias Lidberg

Re: Need HELP!! after upgrade of Flash on pix 520

jscinocca — Fri, 09 Nov 2001 15:43:33 GMT

What code are you running?

type " sh ver"

Re: Need HELP!! after upgrade of Flash on pix 520

tlidberg — Fri, 09 Nov 2001 15:48:03 GMT

This is what I get from sh ver;

Cisco Secure PIX Firewall Version 5.0(2)

Compiled on Tue 19-Oct-99 17:26 by pixbuild

Finesse Bios V3.3

fw002 up 1 hour 57 mins

Hardware: SE440BX2, 128 MB RAM, CPU Pentium II 349 MHz

Flash i28F640J5 @ 0x300

BIOS Flash AM28F256 @ 0xfffd8000

0: ethernet0: address is 00d0.b71a.da4f, irq 11

1: ethernet1: address is 00d0.b71a.e6ae, irq 15

2: ethernet2: address is 00e0.b602.1a6b, irq 10

3: ethernet3: address is 00e0.b602.1a6a, irq 9

4: ethernet4: address is 00e0.b602.1a69, irq 11

5: ethernet5: address is 00e0.b602.1a68, irq 15

Licensed connections: 65536

Re: Need HELP!! after upgrade of Flash on pix 520

jscinocca — Fri, 09 Nov 2001 16:01:38 GMT

Try upgrding the code to 5.25 or higher

Re: Need HELP!! after upgrade of Flash on pix 520

tlidberg — Fri, 09 Nov 2001 16:18:11 GMT

I tried to upgrade to 6.11, using a 6.11 Boothelper disk since I cant use the copy tftp command. But it failed, saying my flash is obsolete and needs upgrading. I thought that what I just did...

Tobias

Re: Need HELP!! after upgrade of Flash on pix 520

jscinocca — Fri, 09 Nov 2001 16:22:57 GMT

why can't you do the copy tftp command,

I always use that.. it is the easiest way

what errors does it give you when you try that

Re: Need HELP!! after upgrade of Flash on pix 520

tlidberg — Fri, 09 Nov 2001 16:28:18 GMT

You cant use it with a software release below 5.1

Do I need to do something on the PIX after I installed the Flash card, like clearing the flash or anything? I just put it in a free ISA slot and started it up again...

Re: Need HELP!! after upgrade of Flash on pix 520

jscinocca — Fri, 09 Nov 2001 16:55:50 GMT

I REMEMBER...

You have to upgrade to 5.25 first then upgrade from there...

I know its stupid

🙂

Re: Need HELP!! after upgrade of Flash on pix 520

tlidberg — Fri, 09 Nov 2001 18:08:57 GMT

Ah, I.C.

Will try it on monday... Will post the result...

Thanks a lot for your help!

Cheers

Tobias

Re: Need HELP!! after upgrade of Flash on pix 520

tlidberg — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 08:23:11 GMT

YES! Got it to work! Now running 6.11 with its cool webadmin interface...

Thanks again for your help!

/Tobias

Re: Need HELP!! after upgrade of Flash on pix 520

g.soto — Thu, 22 Nov 2001 16:24:41 GMT

Hi Tobias,

I will do the same upgrade you did and I just want to be sure about the procedure.

First do the hardware thing and when the pix is up again, upgrade to version 5.25 and then to 6.11, is that OK?

The upgrade was with the boothelper or the tftp command?

Thanks,

Guillermo

Re: Need HELP!! after upgrade of Flash on pix 520

tlidberg — Fri, 23 Nov 2001 08:37:23 GMT

Hi Guillermo!

Yes, that is correct. I had to use boothelper for the first upgrade, since I was running version 5.0(2). After the first upgrade there was no problem upgrading to 6.11 with tftp.

Dont forget to remove the old Flash card!

Have fun!

Tobias