Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive

[Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net>]

	Hi.

On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 09:10:48PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 20:46:20 +0300
> Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 01:15:48PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I'm tearing my hair out trying to get HGST's Drive Fitness Test utility
> > > to run:
> > ...
> > > I've tried so many different things and wasted so much time, but have
> > > still not succeeded:
> > > 
> > > 1) Copying the IMG straight to a flash drive:
> > 
> > Boot the thing via PXE. Syslinux can emulate a floppy from it's image
> > (memdisk module).
> 
> I had started thinking about PXE after my initial post. I tried PXE
> (from my OpenWrt router) - it was actually fairly easy to setup,
> following the guide here:
> 
> https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/tftp.pxe-server
> 
> And the thing actually runs! But I get the same errors described here :(
> 
> https://www.ultimatebootcd.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2528
> 
> To be more precise, here's what I get:
> 
> **********
> 
> HIMEM: DOS XMS Driver, Version 3.15 - 05/30/94
> Extended Memory Specification (XMS) Version 3.0
> Copyright (C) IBM Corp. 1988, 1994
> 
> ERROR: Unable to control A20 line!
> 	XMS Driver not installed.
> 
> IBM RAMDrive version 3.10 virtual disk C:
> RAMDrive: Extended Memory Manager not present
> HMA not available: Loading DOS low
> Microsoft (R) Mouse Driver Version 8.20
> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. 1983-1992.
> Copyright (C) IBM Corp. 1992-1993.
> Mouse driver installed
> Loading DFT ...
> 
> Insert diskette for drive B: and press any key when ready
> 
> <keypress>
> 
> Error RAMDRIVE not found or wrong RAMDRIVE size.
> 
> Insert diskette for drive A: and press any key when ready
> 
> <keypress>
> 
> A:\DFT>
> 
> **********
> 
> and that's it. Is this just a limitation of memdisk's emulation? Any
> further ideas?

Hm. Aren't you supposed to execute something from that A:\DFT directory?
I mean, it booted, successfully mapped memdisk to A:, all is left to
execute an appropriate .COM/.EXE.

Reco