Re: Checking SSDs

From	Chris Hughes <lists@noonehere.co.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.hardware
Subject	Re: Checking SSDs
Date	2025-03-25 11:59 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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In message <5c0314907dnewslists@npost.uk>
          Chris Newman <newslists@npost.uk> wrote:

> In article <vrsiu2$1mn6f$1@dont-email.me>,
>    druck <news@druck.org.uk> wrote:
>> On 24/03/2025 17:26, Chris Hughes wrote:
>>> In message <5c02acdc43newslists@npost.uk>
>>>            Chris Newman <newslists@npost.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> In article <7a958e025c.chris@mytardis>,
>>>>     Chris Hughes <lists@noonehere.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>> In message <5c028e27a9newslists@npost.uk>
>>>>>            Chris Newman <newslists@npost.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>   from RiscOS BITs
>>>>>> Does DiscKnight work with SSDs?

>> Yes it will.

>> It's mainly corruption caused by crashing and power loss that will be a
>> the problem with SSDs. They don't tend to fail slowly with sectors
>> becoming unreadable as can happen with hard drives. When they do fail
>> they either go read-only, or completely dead.

> Thanks Druck. On my FAST m/c Iris often does not close nicely. I get an
> message (I cannot get to where I stored it at the moment). If Iris is
> running still on the icon bar when I shut down it often stiffs the
> machine so the shutdown sequence does not complete and I just have to
> power off. Could this be having dire consequences for the SSD?

No, just use the watchdog (ALT-BREAK) to clear the issue which is caused 
by the WebKitNetwork process for Iris getting tied in knots.

A new beta version of Iris is also now available to download which might 
improve things but do read the important notes etc in the zip file.

-- 
Chris Hughes

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Checking SSDs Chris Newman <newslists@npost.uk> - 2025-03-24 09:50 +0000
  Re: Checking SSDs Chris Hughes <lists@noonehere.co.uk> - 2025-03-24 09:55 +0000
    Re: Checking SSDs Chris Newman <newslists@npost.uk> - 2025-03-24 15:25 +0000
      Re: Checking SSDs Chris Hughes <lists@noonehere.co.uk> - 2025-03-24 17:26 +0000
        Re: Checking SSDs druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2025-03-24 21:30 +0000
          Re: Checking SSDs Chris Newman <newslists@npost.uk> - 2025-03-25 10:18 +0000
            Re: Checking SSDs Chris Hughes <lists@noonehere.co.uk> - 2025-03-25 11:59 +0000
              Re: Checking SSDs Chris Newman <newslists@npost.uk> - 2025-03-25 14:49 +0000
                Re: Checking SSDs Chris Hughes <lists@noonehere.co.uk> - 2025-03-25 15:31 +0000
                Re: Checking SSDs Chris Newman <newslists@npost.uk> - 2025-03-25 17:24 +0000
            Re: Checking SSDs druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2025-03-25 21:24 +0000

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