SSD in a BCM 50 Rls 6

[ccarmock]

I have seen reference here to people successfully booting a BCM 50 from an Solid state disk.

I tried this with a Kingston 64 GB, an SSD NOW V series drive. However the BCM wouldn't even begin to boot from it.

Can anyone advise of a specific make/model of SSD that is known to work?

Thanks
Clive

 

[BlueStuff]

Hi,

I had a similar issue, with Imaging a harddrive.
I used sata 3 disks and they dit not work

This was the answer I got from a tek-tips member

“ucxguy (Programmer)
20 Oct 12 14:01
Hi BlueStuff!

Does the bottom LED turn green for about one second, then it changes back to amber (i.e., both LEDs are solid amber) and nothing happens after that? If that's the behavior you get, the most likely cause is that the BCM50 main board does not recognize the hard disk. If it is a SATA III disk, change it to SATA II. If it's larger than 250 GB, change it to something between 40 GB and 250 GB.

Good luck. “

 

[ccarmock]

Thanks - the symptoms are excatly those - both LEDs end up amber and nothing happens. Unfortunately the SSD I have (A Kingston V server SNV125-S2 is a SATA II drive and is 64 GB capacity so seems to fall into the range that shoudl be detected by the BCM 50.

Does anyone have a BCM 50 running off an SSD that coudl quot ethe drive & Model used please?

 

[curlycord]

Can you not find the proper Hard Drive?





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[ccarmock]

Yes the BCM is working with a standard drive now but I woudl liek to change to an SSD - generates less heat and is quieter

 

[curlycord]

Ahh ok.

I think ucxguy would be correct in trying others.







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[curlycord]

Thx ucxguy,

You’re spot on. That exactly what happens.
When I use an older 80 GB drive it worked like a dream."

Maybe your 64 gig is too old/small.



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[curlycord]

Let me see if I can get the UCx guys to post since you need an SSD drive to use there stuff.


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[ccarmock]

Sounds good thanks.

I thought the 64GB drive would be OK since the original BCM 50 drive was a 40GB drive. Certainly the BCM 6.0 image fits onto a 64 GB drive with no problems.

 

[telcodog]

It will work off an SSD drive because that's the way the eMetroTel turns the BCM50 into a Digital Gateway.

I have one here somewhere. I'll open it up and see what make and model they use and post back.

 

[curlycord]

See this post

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1699146

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[ccarmock]

I can confirm an Intel X25-M SSD drive also works in a BCM 50. I have tested one of these on a Rls 3 and a Rls 6 system. The part number of the drive tested is: SSDSA2M080G2GC

 

[curlycord]

Thanks


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