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

From Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive
Date 2020-10-21 20:30 +0200
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Celejar wrote: 
> On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 14:06:55 -0400
> > 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.
> 
> Ah, okay. Well, the BIOS does offer an IDE mode for the controller, but
> even that doesn't allow DFT to work. Are you suggesting that that's
> because it's not "real" IDE, but some kind of virtualized interface?

Yeah. IDE stands for "integrated drive electronics" and was
essentially a wrapping of the 8-bit (and later 16-bit) PC/AT bus
that fed into a controller mounted on the drive.

The successor was called ATA, and later still redubbed PATA
(parallel ATA) when SATA was invented.

You've got a multiterabyte SATA drive. It speaks a 1.5, 3 or 6 Gb/s
serial protocol with a command set that only looks like IDE if you run
them both through a blender. For one thing, I'm pretty sure IDE couldn't
handle more than... here's the doc:

https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-4.html

The 528MB, 137GB, and 4.2GB limits are all coming into effect
here, possibly others.

-dsr-

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Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-10-20 19:20 +0200
  Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2020-10-20 19:50 +0200
    Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-10-21 03:20 +0200
      Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2020-10-21 08:00 +0200
        Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-10-21 15:10 +0200
          Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-10-21 17:10 +0200
        Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-10-21 17:10 +0200
          Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-10-21 17:20 +0200
            Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-10-21 19:00 +0200
              Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-10-21 19:10 +0200
                Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-10-21 19:50 +0200
                Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-10-21 20:10 +0200
                Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-10-21 20:20 +0200
                Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-10-21 20:30 +0200
                Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-10-21 23:00 +0200
                Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-10-22 03:40 +0200
          Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-10-21 23:50 +0200
            Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-10-22 01:40 +0200
              Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-10-23 14:40 +0200
            Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-10-22 03:40 +0200
            Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-10-22 03:40 +0200
  Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-10-20 21:30 +0200
    Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-10-21 02:40 +0200
  Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2020-10-22 15:50 +0200
    Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-10-22 16:10 +0200

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