XPlotter can't create directory
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Hi everybody,
I installed windows on my server, and went to plot my 2tb drive (it is a network drive on another computer mounted with the standard "Map Network Drive" option in windows), and XPlotter keeps spitting this out: (Yes I know I am using SSE, AVX just crashes without doing anything)C:\Users\UTIL-1\Downloads\XPlotter.v1.0>XPlotter_sse.exe -id 3663532852935423004 -sn 0 -n 0 -t 14 -path Z:\Plots -mem 12G XPlotter v1.0 for BURST programmers: Blago, Cerr Janror, DCCT Checking directory... Can't create directory z:\plots\ for plots (Error 3) Press any key to continue . . .From what I have seen, this might have been a formatting issue on the drive, so I reformatted as NTFS (was EXT4), with the same exact result. I can do z: in CMD with no problems, dir lists everything as it should, I am running XPlotter as admin, can't really think of much else to do. And I am trying to plot the whole drive that is why the -n is 0.
BTW the drive is put on the network via Samba on another linux boxAny help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
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@Xander52 does the folder "plots" actually exist? If not you need to create it
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@manfromafar I tried with and without having the directory there with the exact same result
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@Xander52 Given that the drive is on another PC you will need to grant the correct permissions on the server to the PC running Xplotter.
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@iKnow0 The drive has full read and write access with no username or password (in Samba config), but I can go in with windows explorer and add files or remove them with no problems.
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@Xander52 Why event try to plot over the network, plot it locally then physically move the drive to your other PC.
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@iKnow0 I don't have any 3.5" bays in my server at the moment. I would have to drill a hole in the side to run the cables out, also, I don't have any sas cables atm. (I probably will make a hole at some point though)
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@Xander52 so the SAS controller is integrated on your server mother board? Why not plot from the server then?
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@iKnow0 I don't have any sas to sata cables (like this http://www.ebay.com/itm/Useful-Internal-Mini-SAS-36P-SFF-8087-to-4x-SATA-F-Forward-Breakout-Cable-K0-/112338012789?hash=item1a27de0a75:g:X0kAAOSw2xRYUAyT) to hook my drives up. I did realize that in the back where your pci cards I/O ports come through, I can just take out one of the slot covers and run my cables thru that.
Just to clarify, the server is the machine I want to plot on, as it has 16threads and 16GB ram, and the drives are hooked up to a desktop.
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@Xander52 Just to clarify, its a SATA drive you wish to plot?
if so then you would have SATA ports on your server, so all you need is a free SATA port and cable.
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@iKnow0 Yes, I want to plot a SATA drive. My server has Mini SAS ports, that connect to the backplane or a cable like the one I linked. I do not have one of those cables at the moment. The server uses 2.5" bays. There is one sata port only for the DVD drive on the mobo.
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@Xander52 then disconnect the SATA cable from DVD drive and attach it to the drive you wish to plot.
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@iKnow0 I really would prefer to plot over the network so I don't have to open the chassis (BTW the server is difficult to access), try to find a long enough sata cable to run outside of the chassis, I would need a cable about 3-4 feet long just to get it outside of the chassis, and then have to plot, open the server up again, and remove the drive, and attach another.

