Rebuilding the Iyonix

A little background.
I recently arrived home from working away to find my Iyonix’s hard drive clicking.
The drive proved to be kaput, and I have no backup. This I considered not particulary important, since important data is kept on one of my file servers.

I purchased a replacement hard drive, and found I needed !Hform 2.60, which is only available as part of the HardDisc4 download. Downloaded the HardDisc4 tarball & UnTarBZ2 (self-extracting). Unfortunately UnTarBZ2 doesn’t self-extract (see Problems with UnTarBZ2), but I have an earlier version which works on my RPC and allowed me to extract to its hard disc.

Using *DHCPExecute ek0 to provide basic networking, I ran !HForm from the extracted HardDisc4, successfully formatted the drive, and transferred the HardDisc4 files.

A successful reboot followed, and everything looks OK.

This is an original case machine running 5.16 (512MB) with 3 graphics cards, so the next step was to install !Geminus.

This is where I’ve run into an issue – !Gemius installs OK, but when I try to use it to enable the other two screens, it falls in a heap with the Describe, Quit, Continue dialogue box, clicking Describe gives ‘Internal error: abort on data transfer at &204f3e04’, the only way out being a reboot.

Up till the original hard disc failed, I had not had this issue, however that HardDisc4 image pre-dates the upgrade to 5.16

Anybody have any suggestions as to what might be causing this ?

Oops,
That’ll teach me !
I had downloaded Geminus 1.34, and 1.34a previously, and because I thought I’d lost the previously installed version, I tried both of those. While waiting for possible solutions, I decided to check other software.
First up was EasiWriter (8.64) which wouldn’t load, protesting about the lack of !AWViewer.
In searching for this I came across Geminus 0.95, which works correctly on 3 screens.
Problem solved. Need to speak to Adrian about the later version.