bladebit: 128GB mode Failed to Write Slice Error win11 only occurs on SSDs

This issue was reported by Delerium in discord: https://discord.com/channels/1034523881404370984/1102690350218354920/1179030557271793715

Hi guys - im using Win 11 on Bladebit 3.1 with 128GB ram and a 8GB Nvidia RTX 2080 and regardless of setting I keep getting “Failed to write slice on F://p1unsortedx-p11pairs-3lp-p3-lmap.tmp errror 0” - The temp drive is a local 1TB SSD… what am I doing wrong?

Command used: bladebit_cuda -f xxxx -c xxxx -n 1 --compress 2 cudaplot --disk-128 -t1 F:/ F:/

Notes:

  • Issue occurs only when setting an SSD as a temp drive (HDDs work without issue)
  • Tried reformatting the SSD (even tried multiple format types)
  • Tried using the standalone bladebit and also the integrated bladebit (integrated has error of STDERR: Failed to write slice)
  • Tried multiple different SSDs (3 samsung pro evo 1 TB)

Full CLI of failed run:

Bladebit Chia Plotter
Version      : 3.1.0
Git Commit   : e9836f8bd963321457bc86eb5d61344bfb76dcf0
Compiled With: msvc 19.29.30152

[Global Plotting Config]
 Will create 1 plots.
 Thread count          : 16
 Warm start enabled    : false
 NUMA disabled         : false
 CPU affinity disabled : false
 Farmer public key     : f
 Pool contract address : f
 Compression Level     : 2
 Benchmark mode        : disabled

[Bladebit CUDA Plotter]
 Host RAM            : 127 GiB
 Plot checks         : disabled

Selected cuda device 0 : NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
 CUDA Compute Capability   : 7.5
 SM count                  : 46
 Max blocks per SM         : 16
 Max threads per SM        : 1024
 Async Engine Count        : 2
 L2 cache size             : 4.00 MB
 L2 persist cache max size : 0.00 MB
 Stack Size                : 1.00 KB
 Memory:
  Total                    : 8.00 GB
  Free                     : 6.96 GB

Allocating buffers (this may take a few seconds)...
Kernel RAM required       : 92412135120  bytes ( 88131.08  MiB or 86.07  GiB )
Intermediate RAM required : 4385218560   bytes ( 4182.07   MiB or 4.08   GiB )
Host RAM required         : 28420603904  bytes ( 27104.00  MiB or 26.47  GiB )
Total Host RAM required   : 120832739024 bytes ( 115235.08 MiB or 112.53 GiB )
GPU RAM required          : 6167756800   bytes ( 5882.03   MiB or 5.74   GiB )
Allocating buffers...
Done.

Generating plot 1 / 1: fbbb9cf468011ec5123479b0742f2dea31874c57a4f72d074a17b6b4ddc1be5d
Plot temporary file: F:/plotdone/plot-k32-c02-2023-11-28-20-36-fbbb9cf468011ec5123479b0742f2dea31874c57a4f72d074a17b6b4ddc1be5d.plot.tmp

Generating F1
Finished F1 in 12.17 seconds.
Table 2 completed in 37.99 seconds with 4294967296 entries.

Fatal Error:
Failed to write slice on 'F://p1unsortedx-p1lpairs-p3lp-p3-lmap.tmp' with error 0.

Full CLI of completed run using an HDD (attached): chialog.txt

About this issue

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  • State: open
  • Created 7 months ago
  • Comments: 21 (4 by maintainers)

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Thanks for the info! So it does look like it is block-size related. As a workaround for the time being you can try resetting the SSDs w/ 4k block size while this is resolved

From research on Samsung Pro EVO SSD’s you cannot change the block size so looks like I’m stuck waiting for a resolution 😦