After finding a spare Divicom server, for general interest we decided to see if we could have a go working with that one.
After connecting all up to CPU switcher, we turned on the power and......
its goes all the way through bios/boot etc.
then windows 2000 fails to start due to some major error.
Not deterred we swapped the SCSI drives from the working unit into and succeeded in booting this second unit correctly, it appears that that either the OS or that the original hard drives on the second unit have failed.
We also attempted another method, installing all the software onto a laptop from the divicom backup disk, and then configuring the software using the existing settings on the divicom and attempting to boot the encoders using the laptop.
However we ran into a fair share of problems, the HP Openview software installed corrected but the config/saved set-up was still on the Divicom and this is where problems began,
USB flash drive transfer it, not possible, Divicom has no USB ports.
CD-RW transfer, also not possible, Divicom has a CD drive but cannot write to disks
Floppy drive, not possible, files larger than 1.44mb
Access the server from the local network and tranfer file that way, no cannot access.
In the end we decided that this was more trouble than it would be worth.
Our next idea came from this though, as the 2 working sets of drives are mirrored in RAID 1. We can boot up 1 drive in each Divicom box, and then on one attempt to reinstall the the software one, and still have a backup, untouched system on the other.
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