Hi. On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 09:10:48PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > 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?
Hm. Aren't you supposed to execute something from that A:\DFT directory? I mean, it booted, successfully mapped memdisk to A:, all is left to execute an appropriate .COM/.EXE. Reco
