Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive
Celejar wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 11:15:40 -0400
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Flashing_BIOS_from_Linux#Using_a_FreeDOS-provided_Disk_Image_+_USB_stick_on_Linux
>
> and made a FreeDos installer USB stick and put DFT on it. It actually
> runs (although it skips the opening menu that comes up when booting the
> disk image itself (via PXE or the UBCD image)), but it fails to find
> any disks on the system :(. I don't know if that's a problem with
> the way I'm running it, or some problem with my system configuration
> (UEFI / BIOS, etc.) I tried changing the SATA controller mode from RAID
> to IDE, but it didn't help.
A disk behind a weird SATA controller that sometimes thinks it's
a RAID controller? That's going to be problematic.
> extracting it from DFT-V300.EXE on my Debian system and putting it
> manually onto the FreeDos USB drive, and by putting DFT-V300.EXE on the
> FreeDos drive and running it from within FreeDos to extract DFT.EXE. I
> got the same result of no disk found both ways. Note that I'm pretty
> sure that the disk is alive - I've been waiting to actually start
> using it until I can run some checks on it, but it does respond
> properly to S.M.A.R.T. queries.
>
> Thanks again. Any further suggestions?
Let's go back to: what are you trying to accomplish? Do you have
a new disk that you're trying to qualify in some way, or an old
disk that may have failed and you want to send in for warranty
replacement, or what?
-dsr-
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