On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 20:46:20 +0300 Reco <recovery...@enotuniq.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 01:15:48PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm tearing my hair out trying to get HGST's Drive Fitness Test utility > > to run: > ... > > I've tried so many different things and wasted so much time, but have > > still not succeeded: > > > > 1) Copying the IMG straight to a flash drive: > > Boot the thing via PXE. Syslinux can emulate a floppy from it's image > (memdisk module). I had started thinking about PXE after my initial post. I tried PXE (from my OpenWrt router) - it was actually fairly easy to setup, following the guide here: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/tftp.pxe-server And the thing actually runs! But I get the same errors described here :( https://www.ultimatebootcd.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2528 To be more precise, here's what I get: ********** HIMEM: DOS XMS Driver, Version 3.15 - 05/30/94 Extended Memory Specification (XMS) Version 3.0 Copyright (C) IBM Corp. 1988, 1994 ERROR: Unable to control A20 line! XMS Driver not installed. IBM RAMDrive version 3.10 virtual disk C: RAMDrive: Extended Memory Manager not present HMA not available: Loading DOS low Microsoft (R) Mouse Driver Version 8.20 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. 1983-1992. Copyright (C) IBM Corp. 1992-1993. Mouse driver installed Loading DFT ... Insert diskette for drive B: and press any key when ready <keypress> Error RAMDRIVE not found or wrong RAMDRIVE size. Insert diskette for drive A: and press any key when ready <keypress> A:\DFT> ********** and that's it. Is this just a limitation of memdisk's emulation? Any further ideas? Celejar
