On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 13:00:11 -0400 Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote:
> 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. This is an HP Z440 workstation. I don't know much about these things, but this is apparently standard HP design: https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c02961221#AbT1 http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c04823811 (p. 108) > > 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? A "refurbished" HGST Ultrastar, almost certainly a server pull, purchased on eBay. Originally, I just wanted to verify the health of the disk, and to do so "by the book" (I can always just run badblocks and call it a day), but now I'm intrigued, I suppose, by the challenge ;/ Celejar
