FlashFire XP 32Bit (0.9f) - Another developing version

[dub]

Hi-
I'm getting my internal HD imaged to an Intel SSD in the morning, so installed FlashFire 0.9f in anticipation (still with my 7200RPM internal)
Upon restart I got a BSOD with a crash in your .sys driver. A bit heart-stopping, but rebooted with last-good and uninstalled?
Is that expected that it would crash on a non-SSD? I thought it just buffered writes...
Thanks

[zartto]

Is that expected that it would crash on a non-SSD? I thought it just buffered writes...

I am not sure, but.. the much bigger capacity of HDD may be a reason.
Originally, FlashFire desiged for low-end SSDs, and I have not tested it on regular HDDs with huge capacity.

[dub]

It's an 80GB HD... same size as my new SSD will be. I'll reinstall and let you know how it goes.

[Slapo]

I've installed FlashFire on my system at work (a desktop) and on systems of two of my colleagues (one desktop and one workstation) and it seems to work pretty well on all of them - all three systems have HDDs, not SSDs.
My work HDD is a Seagate, their HDDs are Hitachis .

[dub]

Have the SSD in...still getting BSOD. Is there a more stable build?

[The7]

Have you tried FlashFire09c?
It works very well in my HP mini 1030nr 16GB SSD and Toshiba M70 100GB HDD.

[dub]

FlashFire09c.zip gives BSOD also. I think I'm giving up on this, if any devs think the BSOD can be solved or want more data, I'm @ winkler1, on gmail.

[dub]

I found a (sorta) workaround by mistake:

* installed .9c
* reboot, get BSOD in the driver
* power cycle, restart with last known good config
* restarted (I meant to uninstall..forgot)
* FlashFire starts. No Crash!

But I guess it's not really working. The tray icon says "FlasFire (sic) not installed", and the "Enable" menu item is disabled. ATTO benchmarks look unchanged as well. 9F behaved the same...also crashed when I pulled up the Status menu.

I'm on XP Pro, SP3..on a Dell E6500. Not sure what's going on here, but FlashFire and my rig don't seem to get along Oh well, it's still nice and fast without it...

[Slapo]

Hi Zartto,

FYI, the problem with the activation of the dirty bit and the consequent chkdsk at startup I reported in version 0.9d is still present in this version.

viewtopic.php?f=21&t=42&start=30#p261

Regards,

Ramon

I started having the same problem with 0.9f, sometimes check disk shows up at start for different partitions and the last time it did it exited with an error (the system started just fine, though).
Is there any way I can help the devs? Maybe you could post a debug build that would log everything (and thus be probably slow as hell)?
Note that this happens to me with the Kingston SSD zartto has, too.

[Slapo]

It seems I've found out the possible cause - I've rebooted several times now and no check disk was forced on start.
I've tweaked my XP installation using TuneXP 1.5 and it seems the culprit was the "Speed-up Windows IRQ handling" - I had enabled it some time before I started having the check disk issue (but not immediately before it first occurred, which is why it wasn't obvious) and after I disabled it today, it seems the dirty bit doesn't get created anymore.