Titanium Freeze

Has anyone experienced the Titanium freezing while accessing files on a SATA SSD? Is there any known problem with the SATA ADFS module?

Has anyone experienced the Titanium freezing while accessing files on a SATA SSD? Is there any known problem with the SATA ADFS module?

The Titanium’s ADFS is entirely stable in use here, with OS5.24 and later. The only issue here is one of the two internal SSD’s can fail to restart on softload, a situation that was improved somewhat recently. (The workaround is to power down the Titanium, power it on to boot into the flashed OS5.24 then softload.)

USB can be fragile, I have USB memory sticks that can stop the Titanium from starting up.

Further details may help, when does the ADFS freeze, and what is the SSD?

*SATAdevices
Ctl Prt PMP  Type   Description                                Capacity
  0   0   0  ATA    SanDisk SD8SBAT256G1122                    238 Gbytes
  0   0   1  ATA    Crucial_CT240M500SSD1                      224 Gbytes
  0   0  15  Multiplier

P.S. Oh dear, who has done what to the DVD drive!

This is the SSD:

*SATAdevices
Ctl Prt PMP Type Description Capacity
0 0 0 ATA Samsung SSD 860 EVO 250GB 233 Gbytes
0 0 15 Multiplier

The freeze is quite random. After accessing lots of files – then opening one text file – then freeze. After re-start opening the same text file – no problem.

How can I even find out if SATA ADFS is the root cause or not?

I have OS5.24 in Flash and HardDisc4 on SATA SSD but possibly I am missing some Titanium-only required patches – are there any?

Samsung SSD 860 EVO 250GB 233 Gbytes

What would be really useful is if someone was able to confirm if this drive is, or is not, compatible with the Titanium’s ADFS.

How can I even find out if SATA ADFS is the root cause or not?

My Titanium has both an external USB SCSI SSD and an internal SD card in the SD slot, it can boot and run from either, which as a test could exonerate SATA ADFS.

I have OS5.24 in Flash and HardDisc4 on SATA SSD but possibly I am missing some Titanium-only required patches – are there any?

There are no Titanium patches but there is the latest beta Titanium ROM which can be softloaded.

Have a very full Titanium case…

Drive 4: Samsung SSD 860 EVO 500GB, P1: 200GB ext4 for Ti Linux rootfs (works better from sda than sdb) P2: FAT32 to share data
Drive 5: Samsung SSD 860 EVO 250GB 233, FileCore, the Titanium main device (boot and app)
Drive 6: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB 233, FileCore, my “experimental media device”. I use to play around with my !MovieCentre with a lot of temporally data
Last sata is for a LG BlueRay writer… works fine with CDVDBurn.

The only problem I have was the first powersupply. Original 75W was a bit small (one SSD and the writer). After I change to 350W, no problems.

USB is a bit fragile any times, if I compare with my MX6.

The only problem I have was the first powersupply. Original 75W was a bit small (one SSD and the writer). After I change to 350W, no problems.

I fitted a Streacom ST-ZF240 ATX power supply (240W) which has no fan and is thus completely silent. I have not had any problems.

I have OS5.24 in Flash and HardDisc4 on SATA SSD but possibly I am missing some Titanium-only required patches – are there any?

There is a disc based patch (see the Resources tab to download) which is worth installing especially if you live somewhere hot. Without it, once the temperature drifts up, the SATA clock would be far enough off that the other end of the link (the drives) needed a retrain – this will take a few seconds during which time ADFS will sit retrying (drive LED solidly on) then continue as normal.

The only problem I have was the first powersupply. Original 75W was a bit small (one SSD and the writer). After I change to 350W, no problems.

The maximum motherboard load, with all interfaces populated and drawing maximum load too, is 127W – see “Power Supply Technical Note” document reference 6879670000149 tucked inside the Quick Start Guide. Most of that’s apportioned to the PCIe cards.

However, that doesn’t include any drives (which would normally also be connected to the same power supply), and that often power supplies are quoted as overall load (eg. “250W”) but the split between rails differs from another manufacturer’s 250W supply: PCs are often fed off the 12V rail, so you might find they can deliver many many amps at 12V but relatively little at 3V3. Again, see the above technical note.

Most of that’s apportioned to the PCIe cards.

Have a Haupauge SAT reciver card inside. Hope it will work in Linux soon.

Since the problem is still there, one more question:

I read in some other forum that Samsung SSD 860 EVO 250GB ships with OPAL hardware encryption enabled. If this is active, can it cause problems with RISC OS?

I guess it cannot be checked under RISC OS if it is active, so I would need to place it into a Windows / Linux machine for checking?