BCM 3.7 Hard Drive 2

[Merbac]

Had to swap a hard drive on a bcm 400 3.7. i can Hyper terminal in, but the 5th and 8th lights on the front of the unit just flash. The telephony is still intact.

 

[Dasheen]

Did u initialize the HD?

 

[Merbac]

no, don't know how

 

[cook1082]

It's in the tel net session.

 

[Merbac]

Can't get into telnet through Hyper terminal. I can ping the hard drive, just not telnet in.

 

[tjk78]

Use a straight thru 9 pin cable and connect to the BCM through Hyperterminal that way

 

[Merbac]

I can get in through hyper terminal, and ping the BCM through hyper but can't telnet through hyper.

 

[Merbac]

If i could get in thru hyper, what would be the command line?

 

[tjk78]

Sounds like you are trying to go in via IP. What I was suggesting is to use a com port on a PC to connect directly to the console port on front of the BCM. It's 9600 8-N-1 and will take you directly into the BCM menu to initialize the HDD.

 

[Firebird Scrambler]

This guide of mine is old, but should help you. Just select the correct country type!.

How do I install a replacement hard drive?

BCM 3.x Hard Drive
1. Replace the old hard drive with the new hard drive.
2. Visually inspect the inside of the BCM to confirm all connections are OK. It may be a good idea to use a PC style vacuum
cleaner to remove excessive amounts of dust from the unit.

3. Replace the cover

4. Connect your PC to Serial port using a Null Modem Serial cable (available from Maplin item VD76)

5. Apply power to the BCM & allow 5 minutes for the BCM to become operational. During this time it will perform a check disk
and a reboot.

6. Open Hyper terminal session on your PC
• IN CONNECTION DESCRIPTION NAME IT BCM AND PICK AN ICON
• IN PHONE NUMBER CHECK CONNECT USING IS DIRECT TO COM 1
• IN COM 1 PROPERTIES CHECK PORT SETTINGS
• BITS PER SECOND 9600
• DATA BITS 8
• PARITY NONE
• STOP BITS 1
• FLOW CONTROL HARDWARE
7. If the BCM is ready you will then be prompted to log in.
• user name: ee_xxxin
• domain: (leave blank just press return)
• password: Pxxxxxxx! or exxxe depending on HDD
8. You will then be presented with a menu, press1 to select "Platform Initialisation Menu".

9. From the "Platform Initialisation Menu" choose option 1 - "Initialise Menu"

10. From the Initialise Menu" choose option 1 - "Initialise Universal Profile" and wait for a short time for the next menu to appear

11. From the "MSC Initialisation Menu" choose option 3 – depending on HDD version this maybe "E1 MSC LOAD" for 3.01 and 3.5 and "UK MSC E1" for 3.6. Again depending on the HDD version the leds on BCM will flash in a particular way. For 3.01 and 3.5 all Leds will flash green and for 3.6 you will see the Power flash red then the Temperature followed by the Fan and other leds will be green or out.

12. During this stage the BCM will upload the necessary files and core and will do various reboots, when you have all leds showing steady green it has completed. The whole process should be completed within 30-40 minutes.


All the best

Firebird Scrambler
Meridian 1 / Succession and BCM / Norstar Programmer in the UK

http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidbromley

If it's working, then leave it alone!.

 

[Merbac]

I appreciate all the responses. We found alot of logs and error messages in this "clean" hard drive. We had to clean it out 100% before we could initialize the HD. Again, thank you for your help and your immediate responses!