Mining with Linux and more than one HDD. For each HDD an new instance of the mining programm ?
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@Creepsky45 Ok i will try the jminer. But i will need some time for installing. Actually i don't know how to install so i need some time to find the way. Actually im downloading the blockchain after set up a new Linux installation, its very slow so i can't speed it up.
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Thank you for the excellent advice re: plotting.
Your suggestion to use a spreadsheet is very clever, I will do that using Google Sheets.
I spent (wasted) the last few days trying to plot a 1TB drive. It would get to 4.3GB then stop. This morning I decided to try plotting more space on my 2TB drive and that went smoothly, so I thought maybe there is something wrong with the 1TB drive.
Turns out plotting works on NTFS formatted drives but will not work on FAT formatted drives. So I need to reformat the 1TB to NTFS first.
I am using Linux Mint Cinnamon 64bit.
Cheers
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ok scprv but why are you using ntfs with Linux ? Ext.4 or btrfs should be better with Linux.
You said you are using Mintlinux Cinnamon , which version 18.1 ? or older ?
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@BurnMe said in Mining with Linux and more than one HDD. For each HDD an new instance of the mining programm ?:
Actually im downloading the blockchain after set up a new Linux installation, its very slow so i can't speed it up.
Have you tried: https://forums.burst-team.us/topic/751/howto-use-opencl-gpu-for-accelerated-snyc-with-blockchain ?
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@luxe
hin i downloaded the blockchain zip. So the sync goes faster for me . Now made a backup of my blockchain. SO when crashing or o new install for testing the blockchain gets in sync fast. But thanks for your replay, will look at this options for faster block sync.
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I'm not sure why the drive is NTFS, I think maybe because once upon a time it needed to work with a windows machine (external drive)
I'm running the latest version of Mint so I guess that is 18.1
I've plotted 1.18 TB and I'm trying to mine on burstneon but I'm still not sure it is working.....
Kind of frustrating, but I guess eventually I'll get it.
Couple of questions....
once my miner is running can I close my web based wallet https://wallet.burst-team.us:8125/index.html ??
Also can I close the pool website http://burstneon.ddns.net/ ??
Or do I have to keep those windows open all the time?
So much of this stuff is just not made clear and the documentation is really vague.
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@scprv55 yes you can close the other windows, the miner does not require them.
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Don't give up mining with Linux. I think when it runs its more stable and secure than windows. But be aware of pool mining. I tested pool mining, its working.
But the whole pools have no informations who is responsible for the setup or what kind of company they are. Without an information you can't see if they working in the legal way. This a bit disappointing and i don't know why there are a lot of pools without any information about the company or person who is running the pool.
Has anybody informations or can say where the pools host important informations ? (f.e. the country of the head office, address of the head office )
I can't get any information from the pools. This seems a bit unsecure and dubious especially then when you are mining you have to know more than only the pool url adress.
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Hi dude, I am only trying pool mining. I started with pool.burst-team.us and actually got 22 burst, but I then switched to burstneon.ddns.net and so far nothing. They have a chat and some guys are quite helpful but there is nothing with these mining pools to show that you are working until you get some burst from them to show it wasn't just time being wasted.
I'm now mining with 1.18 TB and I'll and I'll add more when I know that for sure my mining is being counted.
I agree with you that there is no security as to who we are mining for, basically a lot of trust.
Hope you are doing well
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@scprv55 Trusting is good, but if you are making some more burst you need the whole information of the pool because when your financial office is asking you about what are you doing and the only thing you can say is that you trust them its really not enough and you can get in serious trouble. For testing and some fun its ok, but when you make a big rig for mining you have to know more. You can trust but thats no solution when someone official is asking you. There are more things to tink about than only IT Security. I think a lot of people doesn't matter of this but everyone has to know what he is doing. And if someone is saying it doesn't matter and don't want to know anything it's ok for him but he is responsible for his own decession.
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I guess you mean your tax department. I don't have to pay any tax if the money comes from outside my country.
I'm more concerned with doing the work and the pool owner keeping the coins I helped to find.
Anyway, at the moment I am not mining because I'm plotting more and optimizing the plots
How are you getting on?
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@scprv55 its hard getting on. I can't mine the right way. I have problems on solo mining to get the actual block. I post it here in Forum.

