IBM/Hitachi Drive Fitness Test 4.03 crashes; DFT 3.73 works fine

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Hitachi seems to have broken IBM/Hitachi Drive Fitness Test (DFT) 4.03
(dft32_v403_b00.exe). DFT 3.73 (dft32_v373_b25.exe, circa 8-24-2004)
worked fine for me. But version 4.03 crashes while "detecting devices"
on one of my machines (an old 166 MHz Pentium with 64 MB memory and a
40 GB W.D. HDD).

Compounding the problem, there's a ">nul" on the final autoexec.bat
line, which hides the error message that would otherwise be displayed
when DFT crashes. Remove the ">nul", and here's what I see:


UNHANDLED EXCEPTION 0D at 0807:12C0 Error code: 0000

AX = 000D BX = 179E CX = 00FF DX = 0170
SI = 0000 DI = 9212 BP = 0FA6 SP = 0F98
CS = 0807 Limit =12F0 segment #62 of K:\DFT.EXE
DS = 0A6F Limit =E72C segment #91 of K:\DFT.EXE
ES = 0A6F Invalid segment
SS = 0A6F Limit =E72C segment #91 of K:\DFT.EXE
- 0807:12B8 00 8B 56 06 C4 76 08 ED 26 89 04 46 46 E2 F8 ED
A:\DFT>


Does anyone know what is causing this?

-Dave
Tel: 1-919-481-0149
email: dave146 at burtonsys.com
 
Hitachi seems to have broken IBM/Hitachi Drive Fitness Test (DFT) 4.03
(dft32_v403_b00.exe). DFT 3.73 (dft32_v373_b25.exe, circa 8-24-2004)
worked fine for me. But version 4.03 crashes while "detecting devices"
on one of my machines (an old 166 MHz Pentium with 64 MB memory and a
40 GB W.D. HDD).

Compounding the problem, there's a ">nul" on the final autoexec.bat
line, which hides the error message that would otherwise be displayed
when DFT crashes. Remove the ">nul", and here's what I see:


UNHANDLED EXCEPTION 0D at 0807:12C0 Error code: 0000

AX = 000D BX = 179E CX = 00FF DX = 0170
SI = 0000 DI = 9212 BP = 0FA6 SP = 0F98
CS = 0807 Limit =12F0 segment #62 of K:\DFT.EXE
DS = 0A6F Limit =E72C segment #91 of K:\DFT.EXE
ES = 0A6F Invalid segment
SS = 0A6F Limit =E72C segment #91 of K:\DFT.EXE
- 0807:12B8 00 8B 56 06 C4 76 08 ED 26 89 04 46 46 E2 F8 ED
A:\DFT>


Does anyone know what is causing this?

-Dave
Tel: 1-919-481-0149
email: dave146 at burtonsys.com
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Hoi...

I once got an unhandled exception with DFT, too. I found that it was
caused by the bootdisk not having been written correctly. I simply
created a new bootdisk using a *fresh* floppy to make it work.

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Hello, (e-mail address removed)!
You wrote on 3 May 2005 11:28:11 -0700:

d> Hitachi seems to have broken IBM/Hitachi Drive Fitness Test (DFT) 4.03
d> (dft32_v403_b00.exe). DFT 3.73 (dft32_v373_b25.exe, circa 8-24-2004)
d> worked fine for me. But version 4.03 crashes while "detecting devices"
d> on one of my machines (an old 166 MHz Pentium with 64 MB memory and a
d> 40 GB W.D. HDD).


[Sorry, skipped]

d> -Dave
d> Tel: 1-919-481-0149
d> email: dave146 at burtonsys.com

Same software, different question - anyone ever gotten either version to
work on two drives in a RAID0 arrary?

Thanks,

Colonel Blip.
E-mail: (e-mail address removed)
 
This problem is not caused by an incorrectly written diskette.
I downloaded another copy of v4.03, and compared it -- identical.
I made another DFT boot diskette, and tried it. Same error.

-Dave
dave146 at burtonsys.com
 
Anyone tried DFT on a RAID0 array and have it work correctly? I couldn't get
it to recognize the array.

Thanks,

Colonel Blip.
E-mail: (e-mail address removed)
 
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