Hi,

Does DiscKnight work with SSDs?

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Chris Newman <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,

Does DiscKnight work with SSDs?

Yes, but depends on the format in use.

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In article <7a958e025c.chris@mytardis>,
Chris Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:

In message <[email protected]>
Chris Newman <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,

from RiscOS BITs

Does DiscKnight work with SSDs?

Yes, but depends on the format in use.

ADFS on a FAST from RiscOS BIts.

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In message <[email protected]>
Chris Newman <[email protected]> wrote:

In article <7a958e025c.chris@mytardis>,
Chris Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:

In message <[email protected]>
Chris Newman <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,

from RiscOS BITs

Does DiscKnight work with SSDs?

Yes, but depends on the format in use.

ADFS on a FAST from RiscOS BIts.

If it is ADFS I would think it would work, but not sure if uses 4K sectors
on the drive it would.

Ask Andy at RISCOSBits.

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On 24/03/2025 17:26, Chris Hughes wrote:

In message <[email protected]>
Chris Newman <[email protected]> wrote:

In article <7a958e025c.chris@mytardis>,
Chris Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:

In message <[email protected]>
Chris Newman <[email protected]> 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.

Yes, but depends on the format in use.

ADFS on a FAST from RiscOS BIts.

DiscKnight supports Filecore format with just about any type of hardware
that provides standard RISC OS filing system calls.

If it is ADFS I would think it would work, but not sure if uses 4K sectors
on the drive it would.

It does support 4K sectors, but I've not had much feedback from people repairing such discs, so please follow the instructions of keeping an
undo file, and contacting DiscKnight support if you are not sure about anything.

---druck

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In article <vrsiu2$1mn6f$[email protected]>,
druck <[email protected]> wrote:

On 24/03/2025 17:26, Chris Hughes wrote:

In message <[email protected]>
Chris Newman <[email protected]> wrote:

In article <7a958e025c.chris@mytardis>,
Chris Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:

In message <[email protected]>
Chris Newman <[email protected]> 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?

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Chris

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In message <[email protected]>
Chris Newman <[email protected]> wrote:

In article <vrsiu2$1mn6f$[email protected]>,
druck <[email protected]> wrote:

On 24/03/2025 17:26, Chris Hughes wrote:

In message <[email protected]>
Chris Newman <[email protected]> wrote:

In article <7a958e025c.chris@mytardis>,
Chris Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:

In message <[email protected]>
Chris Newman <[email protected]> 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.

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In message <[email protected]> Chris Newman

<snip>

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.

I tried that. I merged the supplied Boot and System files in case
anything had changed since the last version. Ran Iris, unticked JIT as instructed for newer hardware and re-ran Iris. I got a blank front page.
No search Engine or the links that used to be there. Bookmarks and
history were OK. I re-started the FAST which then threw a wobbly and said
Disc Drive not known.
Probably not related but now I'm even more confused than usual.

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Chris

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In message <[email protected]>
Chris Newman <[email protected]> wrote:

In article <12d91d035c.chris@mytardis>, Chris Hughes
<[email protected]> wrote:

In message <[email protected]> Chris Newman

<snip>

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.

I tried that. I merged the supplied Boot and System files in case
anything had changed since the last version. Ran Iris, unticked JIT as instructed for newer hardware and re-ran Iris. I got a blank front page.
No search Engine or the links that used to be there. Bookmarks and
history were OK. I re-started the FAST which then threw a wobbly and said Disc Drive not known.
Probably not related but now I'm even more confused than usual.

I have just upgraded to the news version of Iris, I did not bother with
either the Boot or System files as they were the same as previous
versions. But immediately rebooted so the updated Iris files were detected/seen.

Turned off JIT and ensured I clicked on Save rather then just Set.

Checked the new session section in Choices, my default is "don't open a
window" on startup.

Clicked on the Iris icon and it opened the home page, which now uses
Startpage search instead of Google as it first entry

Your start.html file is located in !Iris.home.start/html

Check in choices under general your URL's for the home page are pointing
to the correct location

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<[email protected]> wrote:

In message <[email protected]> Chris Newman
<[email protected]> wrote:

In article <12d91d035c.chris@mytardis>, Chris Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:

In message <[email protected]> Chris Newman

<snip>

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.

I tried that. I merged the supplied Boot and System files in case
anything had changed since the last version. Ran Iris, unticked JIT
as instructed for newer hardware and re-ran Iris. I got a blank front
page. No search Engine or the links that used to be there. Bookmarks
and history were OK. I re-started the FAST which then threw a wobbly
and said Disc Drive not known. Probably not related but now I'm even
more confused than usual.

I have just upgraded to the news version of Iris, I did not bother with either the Boot or System files as they were the same as previous
versions. But immediately rebooted so the updated Iris files were detected/seen.

Turned off JIT and ensured I clicked on Save rather then just Set.

Checked the new session section in Choices, my default is "don't open a window" on startup.

Clicked on the Iris icon and it opened the home page, which now uses Startpage search instead of Google as it first entry

Your start.html file is located in !Iris.home.start/html

Check in choices under general your URL's for the home page are
pointing to the correct location

Ta. Will do. I have little glitch with the R5 machine which I think I'm
getting to the bottom of so will try when/if that's sorted.

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On 25/03/2025 10:18, Chris Newman wrote:

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?

The SSD will be fine physically, but RISC OS may leave the disk format
in an inconsistent state. DiscKnight can repair the disk and make it
usable again, but you may eventually lose a file or have it's contents corrupted, so there is no substitute for regular backups.

---druck

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