Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive
On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 14:52:41 -0600
Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 14:06:55 -0400
> 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.
>
> Not necessarily. As you say, MS-DOS (And, I believe, Free-DOS) don't
> have drivers for SATA. However, it is perfectly possible for the DFT
> utility to have its own drivers built in. If I were testing hard drives
> on MS-DOS <shudder!> that's what I would do.
And DFT explicitly claims to support SATA drives:
https://www1.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT
Celejar
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