WS-SUP720-3BXL does not start Not Applicable Unknown

Once after a power outage, on Cisco Catalyst 6509-E, instead of the main module WS-SUP720-3BXL, only the backup module was launched.
As I found out later, the memory card stopped working and, accordingly, the module could not start the firmware. At this moment on the module all the indicators glowed red.

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Solution “Port is not compatible with aggregators in channel 1 and cannot attach to them”

Once on Cisco Catalyst 6509-E, when I collected an aggregation of three ports, traffic began to go through only two ports and a message appeared in the logs:

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Configure IP Unnumbered on Cisco

On the test I will configure IP Unnumbered on Cisco Catalyst 6509E with firmware 12.2(33)SXJ7, on other switches the setup is similar.
IP Unnumbered is useful, for example, when it is necessary to divide a large network into several VLANs and use the same IP addresses and also to issue white IPs in any VLAN using one gateway.

Connect to the terminal device through the console, telnet or SSH.

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