Using a hard drive image to resurrect a POS

[AtariBaby]

My friend has a struggling restaurant and a couple of old IBM SurePOS. One died. I attempted to help him in a pinch, and I determined hard drive failure. I made an image of of the master terminal onto a brand new hard drive and installed it, but it has errors and I am uncertain how to fix the problems.

For one thing, the imaged copy (let's call it the clone) says at the bottom of the screen MASTER (SERVER: TERM1). I'm guessing this means the clone thinks it is the master terminal but you tell me.

I don't know how to get out of the screen in order make any changes to it.

I get the following errors:

When I enter a login code a screen says "System redundancy limite has been exceeded! Restore your fileserver to continue or contact your service provider for assistance".

There are other errors that occur. I'm going to record them now. But one problem here is I don't know how to get to a screen where I can reconfigure anything on this clone.

 

[AtariBaby]

Oh I forgot to mention it's ALOHA.

 

[AtariBaby]

The other problem is if I boot up with the ethernet cable connected, it says "Failed to register station name, error 0x23.

I realize this is reported in the forums before, however I figure this is directly related to the fact that this is a copy of the other master terminal. How do I fix this?

 

[coorsman]

If you have XP or W2K on your machine - then...


1. Stop IBER.EXE - Ctrl+alt+delete - task manager - end iber.exe

2. In the c:\Aloha directory there is a file ibercfg.bat. Edit it and change the SET TERM=# to the number # the terminal is supposed to be.

3. Change the computer name. right click on my computer and go to properties. - computer name tab- change the name to term# - # is term that is missing. No spaces ie- term1.

4. Change the IP address of the terminal.

5. If you still have a problem with Failed to reg Station name then you will need to set the lana number with
lanacfg.exe.

Other than that it should work.

 

[AtariBaby]

Oh thank you. We've gotten past some error messages to an exciting new error message

BTW I found c:/lanacfg.exe and double-clicked it. I wasn't sure if I needed to run it from dos prompt but it appeared to do the trick, because I rebooted and:

This time aloha stuff loaded up for a while, but:

*Windows error popped up that date and time were wrong. (I clicked OK)
Aloha reported that date was wrong, something about being set to 1999.
Aloha reported that trans.log(?) appeared to have a corruption at 0.

Then it closed and windows shut down again.

I can get the error message verbatim tomorrow if needed.

 

[AtariBaby]

It's nearly my narrow little window for working on this thing before the restaurant opens. Anyone have ideas?

 

[AtariBaby]

Here we go, error messages in detail:

"ProcessTXNLog()...C:\Aloha\DATA\TRANS.LOG appears corrupt at position 0"


AND

"** Warning, Local Computer Data may be incorrect, Year is 1999"

Windows shuts down after those appear.

 

[AtariBaby]

and I have run lanacfg.exe showlanapaths [sic] and confirmed the lana is now set to 0.

 

[AtariBaby]

UPDATE: I manually updated the time in Control Panel, and now it's..... working?! Am I celebrating prematurely? Let's test it out with a few reboots. If that works, we'll let the grateful servers try it out tonight. Please wish me luck!

 

[coorsman]

good luck. I commend this web site and the help WE provide to our crippled aloha patrons.

 

[AtariBaby]

yay, the servers love me and they love you too. I would say to coorsman, if you're ever in San Francisco, I know for a fact that hot meal and drinks await you. Seriously, let me know if you're ever in town.

My interest in this area is definitely piqued. I hope you guys won't mind me asking some more questions that are on my mind, in the near future.