Not sure if I'm doing this right :(
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Ok.... here is my AOEMI partition assistant.... i deleted the partitions (i think?) does it look good?
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This is the read benchmark (I selected short test as you told me)
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I though i eliminated all the partions on my HDD... yet, i got this message...
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@TellezMiotta Hmm i would advise you to format your drive via Windows instead of with that program... It should write everything over...
Regarding plotting and mining ETH at the same time you should be able if you left just one CPU core free, because it is needed to control the GPUs, otherwise you will not be able to make it... ;D
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@TellezMiotta, uncheck "short stroke" for the read/write benchmark tests. You only tested 40GB with that checked.
For the write test warning, just select "run write test" and select ok,
4th tab over on HD tune is "error check", select quick scan and you're done.
Regardless of what @gpedro said, I format all my drives with "that" program. You will select quick format or be there all day waiting for it to "write over everything". Label your drive and format. Then right click the drive and select advanced and assign a drive letter.
Then the win explorer will recognize the drive. reformat to NTSF with 64k cluster. The reason for the 64k cluster is the plot files never use any data smaller than that so less chunks is faster.
You can also use AOMEI to reformat to 64k clusters by selecting the formatted drive and format, it will give you the option for the lager clusters, but I like to see the win system do the final format.
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@TellezMiotta What the size of the drive in bytes, and the filename of the plotfile ?
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@rds I was not undermining the program at all...
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@haitch said in Not sure if I'm doing this right :(:
@TellezMiotta What the size of the drive in bytes, and the filename of the plotfile ?
He has a 5TB and was plotting 19075526 nonces, which is 5TB. Plus he was half plotted and then ran into the write error.
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@gpedro said in Not sure if I'm doing this right :(:
@rds I was not undermining the program at all...
I don't understand what you mean by this????Oh. I get it, I know you weren't, it was @gpedro, no problems :)
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@rds I need to see the exact in bytes and the plotfile name - I suspect it's trying to plot beyond the end of the drive.
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@haitch said in Not sure if I'm doing this right :(:
@rds I need to see the exact in bytes and the plotfile name - I suspect it's trying to plot beyond the end of the drive.
Look at the beginning of the thread, it looked ok to me, 19075526 * 262144 bytes/nonce is 5E12 bytes. The 5TB drive is a little more than that. He started the file with the -n0 parameter to get the # of nonces.
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@rds I cant select that check box.... for some reason... don't know why :S .... I'm doing something on AOEMI but im not even sure it quite correct... Here's an SS
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@rds Looking at one of my 5TB drives, it has a single plot file, with # nonce = 19,073,792 - that drive has 768KB of free space. For his plot with 1,734 extra nonces, his 5TB drive would need to be 454MB bigger than my 5TB drives. That's why I wanted the exact number of bytes.
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I can't read spanish, but you need to delete all partition first. Then run the HD pro tests, then go back to the formatting.
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Sorry hehehe.... It says deleting the partitions... (didn't know it had partitions in it in the first place) Is it normal that this procedure takes some time? just so i can know if im doing it correctly
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@TellezMiotta , no, it should take no more than 30 secs. The program estimates the time, what did it say?
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Ok... it literally took the whole night BUT I think i deleted the partitions on the hard drive.... is this how it should look like?
For some reason i'm still not able to apply a write test... but this is how the read test looks
When i try to do a write test it still says that i have to delete all the partitions to make the test but why? if supposedly i have deleted all the partitions on the drive :S
Please help :S
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Also... I no longer see the hard drive on the windows explorer ... don't know why? did i do something wrong?
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Ok i restarted the rig and I can't see the hard drive anywhere on windows o.O
