Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive
On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 13:00:11 -0400
Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
> 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.
This is an HP Z440 workstation. I don't know much about these things,
but this is apparently standard HP design:
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c02961221#AbT1
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c04823811 (p. 108)
> > 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?
A "refurbished" HGST Ultrastar, almost certainly a server pull,
purchased on eBay. Originally, I just wanted to verify the health of
the disk, and to do so "by the book" (I can always just run badblocks
and call it a day), but now I'm intrigued, I suppose, by the
challenge ;/
Celejar
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