Enabling Jumbo/Giant Frame support on 2948G-GE-TX

Hi I am after enabling Giant/Jumbo Frame support on a 2948G-GE-TX in order to improve performance to for an iSCSI network.
I have found documentation on CCO that says this cannot be done on the 2948G-L3 but does not mention the 2948G-GE-TX which has superceeded it.
see link
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps700/products_configuration_example09186a008010edab.shtml
Can the MTU size be changed to support jumbo frame upto 9216 bytes? on the 2948-GE-TX.
Thanks in advance.
Colin

Hi
As per the data sheet its 1522bytes which is the max mtu size which u can configure under the Gig interfaces...
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps606/products_data_sheet09186a00801cfafe.html
regds

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