On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 14:52:41 -0600 Charles Curley <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 14:06:55 -0400 > Dan Ritter <[email protected]> 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. > > Not necessarily. As you say, MS-DOS (And, I believe, Free-DOS) don't > have drivers for SATA. However, it is perfectly possible for the DFT > utility to have its own drivers built in. If I were testing hard drives > on MS-DOS <shudder!> that's what I would do. And DFT explicitly claims to support SATA drives: https://www1.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT Celejar
