Hello Forumers,
I'm hoping there might be a SiPlace expert or two trawling the forum. We have an S25 machine that essentially has a failed MC harddrive and we're trying to rebuild a new one.
Attached are a few images and perhaps something shown here and the details below may trigger something with someone that will assist us.
We've been able to create a new hard drive for the MC from the procedure of booting from the two install floppies (from ...Sip_mcHS50FD_image.RM3 folder) using the RMOS-1 and RMOS-2.exe.
Through this process the MC hdd formats and partitions C and D are created and some files are copied across to these two drives. This seems to all go to plan. We can get into the host files in C:ETC and D:XY_ETC and change the IP addresses from default to that which should be correct for our system.
When we turn on the machine power and view the monitor on the mc, we get the first image which matches up with our S27. Then we switch the monitor to the station computer and when Windows finishes loading (WinNT on this machine), the SiPlace software loads and shows 'Software booting...'
If we change from that screen and look at the IPCServer trace, we see these connection attempts from the station computer to the MC (mc231_211) and the Line computer (vdohk84g1s). We can however ping both the mc and the line computer from the station computer (and vica-versa). You can also see on this screen that there are 13 Server connections and 0 client connections. (On our S27 which is currently working, there are 14 server and 1 client connections.)
My understanding of rebuilding the mc hdd is that we also need to run the MC Distributor program (from the start menu). Perhaps this is the missing process but when we attempt to run this software, nothing happens. No software loads, nothing appears on the screen, the only thing that happens is the mouse courser changes for a moment and then goes back to a pointer. We tried copying and running the same software from S27 on the S25 but it behaved in the same way.
A separate question, is there any reason why we couldn't clone our S27 hard drive and put that in the S25?
If anyone can provide any assistance or guidance, it would be very much appreciated.
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