RB600 and CF card as additional storage

Hardware MikroTik hardware general
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Hi, I have a RB600 with RouterOS v3.6 installed. There’s not so much storage on the board itself (~60 MiB) and I’d like to use it as an upgrade mirror for other ROS devices (although have encountered some difficulties with this way of upgrading, but discuss this problem first).

So I attached a bianco 128 MB CF card to the board (to the first slot), and booted the machine up. Logged in via WinBox but nothing resembled the presence of this card. I was not able to “find” it nor to use it for storage. I repeated the whole process after setting up a 128 MB FAT partition on the CF card.

Is there a way to do this?

(I heard that ROS is based on GNU/Linux so there should be a shell (bash) somewhere to access it, am I right? If the kernel has drivers for some common filesystems than a single “mount” could do it. Or couldn’t? What’s your opinion?)

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as far i know you can use cf rard only for proxy cache, but idea is not bad.MT developers could add this fetature in future releases. You can “find” your cf in ip proxy settings, option cache-drive.
Yes, ROS have shell - busybox, but it is avalaible only for MT developers :frowning:

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Yes, I “found” the CF card in the proxy settings. It seems like this is all we can do now (until the devs start to become interested in this problem).

Thank you for the information.