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

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On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 08:45:59 +1100
David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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

Thanks. I think I'm done with wasting time on this silly thing, but
FWIW, LOADDFT does not appear in the CONFIG.SYS shipped with the DFT
tool, but it is called by its AUTOEXEC.BAT in its final line:

LOADDFT.EXE DFT-V300.EXE DFT.EXE /!BLOB /PSR >NUL

I tried running this line from the DOS prompt, and it threw some error
about the RAMDRIVE, but that's probably because I was running it from
the FreeDos environment, rather than the DFT one.

Celejar

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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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