regarding the latest news I'm really wondering how many customers have put themselves out of mining the last days ?
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The missing files are causing critical issues, and the miner is no longer able to complete its boot sequence.
The files concerned, are;
Cgminer.conf.factory
Network.conf.factory
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Further more I'm not pleased to read that a missing default config file, stored on a persistent partition where users might modify or even delete it, causes a complete boot failure of $k hw used for btc-mining.
Seriously ?!
Without having deeper knowledge of the exact technical reasons which lead KnC's devs to this decision:
How about a simple 'check if file exists if not skip it or copy some default-config from system-image' ?
Or as alternative put those files in a place a user can not damage (all dirs except '/config')..
You risk it by SSH'ing to the device, basically don't do it unless you are 100% sure you won't mess up. I don't blame KnC for taking this stance.
After all on the devices web interface it warns "KnCMiner products are carefully engineered and are not designed to be user serviceable in hardware or software other than when specifically directed by a member of the KncMiner team."