Hi, I have a question on merging computers in an account. I had a power supply fail in one of my crunchers and it took out the hard drive and the network card. I replaced it and named the new one the same as the failed unit. I have been able to merge the data from crunchers before and was wondering why I can not do this now. This is the pc info:

Name - rock-ea66fd34b3

New - ID: 7065438 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20GHz [Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9](4 processors)

old - ID: 6621801 Intel Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5200 @ 2.50GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10](2 processors)

I can sort of understand the vast hardware differences between the pc's being an issue, maybe, but it's just a data merge not a machine merge.

The Question - How can I merge these machines?

Regards
Robert

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Due to the difference in CPU TYPES (see below) you will NOT be able to merge the two. The CPU's MUST be the EXACT Family, Model and Stepping "codes" to do a merge.

New / i5 = [Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9](4 processors)
Old / C2D = [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10](2 processors)

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I think that unless you kept your old data folder you can't, but I could be wrong.

If you can't get this link, http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/merge_by_name.php, to work then there's nothing that can be done.

Cheers.

Like I said I could see the huge difference in the hardware, but is this not just a data merge. Why is it linked to the hardware?

Regards
Robert

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It's not only just hardware, it also involves the operating system.

Do you still have the old data folder still on the old hardware or is it history?

Cheers.

The old hardware is toast, no data connection at all. OS was XP vs new Win 7.

Robert

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You can't retrieve it off the old hard drive by plugging it into the new or did the hard drive take a walk too?

Cheers.

When the power suppy failed it took the hard drive out.

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sorry - Supply

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Sadly you'll just have to live with the new ID then. :-(

Cheers.

Ok, I can live with that but I do not understand why a merge is not available. It is just a database and you can verify identification and just mask out hardware information to allow the merge. Seems silly to me.

It would have been nice to keep the effort intact.

Robert

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You can delete the old host, when it has no longer work associated with it.
You're not renaming & then merging all your other computers into one hostID, so why expect it to be possible of an old ID and a completely new hostID that has no work associated with it?

Had you had an older data directory to use, then that one could've contacted home base with the new hardware but still all the old work associated with it, run the old work etc. and allow you to merge the old hostID with the new one.

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