BCM50 R1 HDD issues 1

[adamandamy]

I've had 3 BCM50 R1 crap out on me in the last 2 months because of HDD failures. All were installed around the same time 4 years ago. Is this a known issue with Nortel and their poor choice of HDD manufacturers(as with the cap issue on the 200/400s) or is it just bad luck?

 

[snowman50]

is that all

Come to my patch and see the problems we have with failed hard drives

 

[cmawbey]

i have had release 1 HDD failures as well all around 4 years old too....i reimage a 40 or 80 gb sata HDD then patch it then restore a backup then add the keycode file and all is then ok

 

[Firebird Scrambler]

So far, all of the BCM hard disk failures that I've known have all been the release 1 versions. I've never had to replace the actual BCM unit (Motherboard). I usually carry spare BCM 50 hard disk images from release 1 to 3.

All the best

Firebird Scrambler
Meridian Programmer in the UK

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

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

 

[Dasheen]

Keep in mind HD have about a 3-5yr lifespan. Remember they're constantly going unlike on a pc where u can turn it off. In one week I replaced 6 on bcm 400s.

 

[adamandamy]

So I take it there's no Nortel program to replace these drives under any sort of product recall a la the MSC cards?
I know it been referenced before, but can someone post a link for instructions on how to reimage a drive.

Thanks,

 

[madwok]

Hi Firebird,

Do you have any tip on creating an BCM50 image ? Do you use Ghost or some other Unix/linix tools to do it ?

Thanks,

madwok

 

[Firebird Scrambler]

Please refer to the faq's or go to this link below.

http://www.ghtrout.com/bcm/Replacing_a_Hard_Disk_on_a_BCM_50_System.zip

All the best

Firebird Scrambler
Meridian Programmer in the UK

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

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

 

[madwok]

Thanks Firebird