Limitation Of File System On The Compact Flash Card; Setting Up Dhcp Options For Firmware Upload - Motorola WS2000 System Reference Manual

7-10 WS2000 Wireless Switch System Reference Guide
WARNING! Sometimes you might encounter an issue with mounting CF cards that have
been formatted on a Windows/XP machine. To resolve this issue, reset the WS2000 with
the CF card inserted. Go to the boot prompt. From the boot prompt enter the following
commands:
cf fill 0 0
cf fill 100 0
cf fill 200 0
You can then take the card and format it using a Windows machine using FAT32.
Any card formatted on a Linux machine does not have this issue.
NOTE: Use the 'exec cfpartition' command from the boot prompt to create a CF card with multiple
partitions. This command creates a CF card with 1 VFAT partition and 2 LINUX partitions.

7.8.4 Limitation of File System on the Compact Flash Card

The Compact Flash (CF) card users VFAT (FAT16) file system. This file system can at the most support 512 root
directory entries, where each directory entry can either be a file or a folder (directory). If long file names are
used (other than xxxxxxxx.xxx (<filename>.<ext>) format) , then the number of entries are less than 512. Once
the limit of 512 is reached, no more files or directories can be added.
If the 512 entry limit is reached, it can be overcome by deleting a file and creating a folder (directory).
However, it is suggested to keep number of files or folders (directories) in the root folder of the CF card low.
The limit of 512 entries is applicable to every directory created.

7.8.5 Setting Up DHCP Options for Firmware Upload

It is also possible to configure the switch to receive firmware and configuration files automatically from a
server using the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). This features allows quick and automatic
rollouts of new configurations or firmware updates across the network without manually updating each
switch.
Select [System Configuration]
the switch to accept DHCL downloads.
--> [Cfg/Firmware Mgt] --> DHCP Options (Sys Update) to configure