2960L 8TS LL reporting invalid drive

[bigkeoni64]

Hello anyone run into an issue with the 2960L 8 port switches and using a thumb drive?

I've got 2 stand alone 2960L 8TS LL switches and my customer used 2 USB sticks and loaded firmware from a windows machine onto the USB sticks. I've never seen this on Nexus switches or other versions.

Put them into the usbflash0: and now we are getting:

COLO-2960L-02#dir usbflash0:
%Error opening usbflash0:/ (Invalid DOS media or no media in slot)
COLO-2960L-02#

Thank you

[Reza Sharifi]

Hi,

It appears that the USB port is for console access and not for transferring IOS from flash drive to a switch.

See the link below:

HTH

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/catalyst2960l/hardware/installation/guide/b_c2960l_8_16_hig/b_2960_L_hig_appendix_0110.html

[bigkeoni64]

Thanks for checking Reza, but that appears to be only the mini-USB port - also colored in the Cisco baby-blue area. As can be shown on the CLI, it is a storage device:

[Reza Sharifi · Accepted solution]

I see. You are correct. There is a storage USB as well in the blue section but they are not describing that very well in the hardware guide.

So, then the issue may be a formatting problem on the flash drive. Have a look at this post.

https://community.cisco.com/t5/switching/usb-not-recognized-in-3850/td-p/3096320

[bigkeoni64]

Yeah, I think it's the formatting of the drive. They were pulled directly our of the package with no formatting done. We'll try that next.

Thanks Reza...