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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Official FutureBit Apollo LTC Image and Support thread
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philipma1957
on 21/12/2018, 22:03:50 UTC
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Ive been using the Microcenter cards for a few weeks now so don't think its that. Could be a bad controller then. Just let me know when you can send it over and ill figure out what it is.
Micro Center SD cards are notoriously bad for this type of application. I tried on several occasions to use them for different Raspberry Pi projects, but I always had weird unexplained errors.

For example, I recently built a mining controller using a Micro Center 32gb SD card with a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B for my Moonlander 2 devices and the Raspberry Pi would have random kernel panics about once every 12 hours. I eliminated those issues by swapping out for a SanDisk card.

The PNY card is now just under 22 hours and still going strong.
Moral of the story....If you buy a $250+ miner don't use the free SD cards.

-Dave

Good to know it was just an SD card issue.

Probably a good idea to post the model and size of SD cards you guys are using. Ill eventually add a working Micro SD card list when I get my full guide up.

Has anyone got a 128GB card to work yet?

no my samsung 128gb is now running my rasp pi for my avalon a921

I am using a samsung 32gb card