Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 11:15:40 -0400 > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Flashing_BIOS_from_Linux#Using_a_FreeDOS-provided_Disk_Image_+_USB_stick_on_Linux > > and made a FreeDos installer USB stick and put DFT on it. It actually > runs (although it skips the opening menu that comes up when booting the > disk image itself (via PXE or the UBCD image)), but it fails to find > any disks on the system :(. I don't know if that's a problem with > the way I'm running it, or some problem with my system configuration > (UEFI / BIOS, etc.) I tried changing the SATA controller mode from RAID > to IDE, but it didn't help.
A disk behind a weird SATA controller that sometimes thinks it's a RAID controller? That's going to be problematic. > extracting it from DFT-V300.EXE on my Debian system and putting it > manually onto the FreeDos USB drive, and by putting DFT-V300.EXE on the > FreeDos drive and running it from within FreeDos to extract DFT.EXE. I > got the same result of no disk found both ways. Note that I'm pretty > sure that the disk is alive - I've been waiting to actually start > using it until I can run some checks on it, but it does respond > properly to S.M.A.R.T. queries. > > Thanks again. Any further suggestions? Let's go back to: what are you trying to accomplish? Do you have a new disk that you're trying to qualify in some way, or an old disk that may have failed and you want to send in for warranty replacement, or what? -dsr-
