Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive
On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 at 02:04, Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
> I poked around a bit, but was unable to get anything to run:
>
> 'dir' shows two files: DFT-V300.EXE and LOADDFT.EXE. The latter
> returns: "Error: Missing parameter." The former returns:
>
> PKSFX (R) FAST! Self Extract Utility Version 2.50 03-01-1999
> Copr. 1989-1999 PKWARE Inc. All Rights Reserved. Registered Version
> PKSFX Reg. U.S. Pat. and Tm. Off.
>
> Searching EXE: A:/DFT/DFT-V300.EXE
> Inflating: CleanDsk.PID
> Inflating: CleanMBR.PID
> Inflating: DFT.EXE
> PXSFX: (E50) Disk Full, file: *
>
> A:\DFT>
>
> I switched to disk B: 'dir' shows four files: the two in A:, and
> CLEANDSK.PID and CLEANMBR.PID. Running DFT-v300 gives the same error
> (after warnings about overwriting the two *.PID files), and running
> LOADDFT also gives the same error as above.
>
> I understand that no one here can be expected to support this
> ridiculously crufty proprietary closed source software. I'm just
> wondering whether there's any FLOSS solution to emulate the actual
> environment the thing expects closely enough for it to work.
On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 at 05:07, Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
> But I suspect that we now know why the DFT utility can't see it:
> because DOS can't see it, because DOS doesn't have any SATA
> support. The best that can be done is providing a virtualized
> interface, and that won't let you interrogate the disk.
Hmmm. That error message from LOADDFT.EXE and its name
makes me suspect that LOADDFT.EXE could possibly be the
driver that needs to be loaded before running DFT-V300.EXE.
At a guess, I would try adding something like
DEVICE=LOADDFT.EXE
to your CONFIG.SYS file. [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CONFIG.SYS
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