Microsoft OneDrive mapped as network drive for Burst mining
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OK so looks like I found time right away, lol. I set up the networked drive using NetDrive and tried mining the same plot files that I originally had problems reading from work (but now I am at home using a different PC). This time I had no read errors at all.
This is what I think has caused the problems:
For some reason, I managed to map a folder called 'plots' and not the root directory within OneDrive as a network drive on my work PC, because I was first messing about with manually creating folders and uploading plots through the browser interface before mapping it as a network drive. So, when I later accessed the drive through my computer it would look like I was in the root directory, except I wasn't. So, I assume the CPU miner 'found' the file in G: - Burst - plots and tried to read it, but failed to open it, because the real path (visible if I logged in to OneDrive through the browser) was G: - Burst - plots - Burst - plots (yes, I know that looks retarded, and it is).Solution:
I need to remove the mapped network drive at work, and map it again, this time mapping it to the root directory.
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@blago
Since reading through plot files on a network drive takes longer (because of internet speed bottleneck), I would like my miner to read those plots after reading plots on my internal and external drives, so that I can submit as many deadlines as possible before the next round starts. How can I configure my CPU miner to prioritize reading specific drives? What is the logic?This is from my miner.conf: "G:\Burst\plots","F:\Burst\plots","E:\Burst\plots","C:\Burst\plots", but it reads in this order: C, G, F, E. My network drive is G.
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@Propagandalf no, miner reads ALL paths parallelly. In you case, C < G < F < E, that's why miner final to read paths in that order.
if you want read paths in series, you may use "+", like
"G:\Burst\plots+F:\Burst\plots+E:\Burst\plots+C:\Burst\plots"
logically, this will 1 Path (I'm not recommend)
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@Blago
I was not aware that it reads all drives in parallell. Does that mean that every time I see a white line in the miner (i.e. Thread "C:\Burst\plots" @0.06) it is simply because that particular drive has been finished earlier than the rest?If I understand correctly, configuring the miner to read 1 path will be slower then, because it will first read through one drive before moving on to the next (series, not in parallell)?
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@Propagandalf "Yes, that's right" to both questions
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@Propagandalf You could do: "c:\Burst\plots","e:\burst\plots","f:\burst\plots + g:\burst\plots"
That should read your local drives in parallel and then do the network drive after the F: plots are processed.
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@haitch
Hmm... would that give me any benefits? Would not reading the network drive in parallell be better?
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My opinion is that it would depend on your internet connection. It is my thinking that I want it to start downloading immediately. The faster the better always. Now if it were obvious that the mining of the plot is hurting your connection to the pool I would put them at the end. My setup runs all at once.
just my 2 bursts
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@Propagandalf In parallel would be better, but you asked how to do the network drive after the local drives - and that's the question I answered ......
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For fuck's sake. I have finally mapped the OneDrive for Business root directory to my work PC, but I still get the read error in my miner. From my home PC I have no trouble reading the same plots, but I want to be able to read them from my work PC.
The difference between the two setups is that my home PC has OneDrive mapped using the Net Drive program, while my work PC has it mapped manually. I believe there are semi-issues with authentication or something, and I have no admin rights to install programs here, so for the moment using Net Drive is not an option. It is strange though, because I can now view all the files like I normally can with other network drives in explorer.
Does anyone know of any Net Drive-like programs that are portable, so that I can run them from my thumb drive?
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To my knowledge you have to use a program like netdrive. I've tried others and most of them don't work or are very slow. Netdrive does something to speed it up or keep them connected.
Good luck bro
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@crutsy Thanks, mate. I just tried the portable program "Drive Mapper" (http://commons.pacificu.edu/apps/4/), but sadly it did not make a difference. Like you said I probably need a more powerful program like Net Drive, but finding portable ones is not that easy. How I wish my employers would ease up on the management of their PCs a bit, so a poor miner can do his job! Well, at least I have scraped together 410 GB on local drives, so my miner won't be idling.
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@Propagandalf do you try FTPdrive portable?
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@Blago No I haven't, but I will give it a try tomorrow!
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@Blago said:
do you try FTPdrive portable?
Hey Blago. I tried downloading it today, but from various sites I get the FDinst.exe file that appears to be an installation package. Do you know where I can just download the portable version?
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@Propagandalf 0_1468312975633_FtpDrive.zip
checked https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/321b5fbf4d55af1f95217cf757021b07b20fff4574a299e6dc68e1113107b0cb/analysis/1468312882/
I'd just install FDinst.exe and copy folder
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@Blago Thanks, I just tried setting it up - but I wasn't successful. I cannot see any OneDrive contents on my drive letter Z, which must mean that I have not set up the server properly. I must admit that the program is slightly too complicated for my skills, though.
I contacted the support team of 'Net Drive' and asked if they had a portable version, but they said they don't. Perhaps I should just give up this project for now, it seems like Net Drive is the only program that can make reading the plots files on OneDrive for Business possible without error - but I cannot install that on my restricted work PC :-/ A solution could be to bring a personal laptop to work and just leave it there for mining (to use the high speed internet), but I prefer not drawing that much attention.
I will still mine from home on my OneDrive for Business server, but my internet speed is not as fast there, so I won't be able to fully utilize the max amount of plots.
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Anyone, by chance, have a office 365 with that server cloud version they have?
I was wondering if will work function run the miner as a service on one of this server cloud with unlimited space that office 365 offers...
My taught is not only the HDD space problem will be a problem neither the network limitations because the miner will be minning locally at Microsoft servers... =D
@Blago @crutsy @haitch @Propagandalf
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@crutsy do you have a subscriber name I should look for on your youtube video? I really would like to learn how to take advantage of this by following all of your steps. Thank you for sharing your information.


