Easiest way to move 300k stone from multiple AE drives to a DSU?

[weedenbc]

I've currently got 300k stone sitting in my AE system on drives that I want to move to a DSU. What's the easiest way to do it? I tried just building the DSU and formatting the storage bus attached to it to accept stone, but that didn't do anything. It all kept going into the ME drives.

I also have a similar problem with my gravel. I've got about 30k of it, about half is on the AE drives and the other half is in a DSU. What's the easiest way to move it all over to the DSU?

 

[CaseyRobinson]

1st, export bus to dump all the stone into the DSU. (In place of the storage bus.)
2nd, increase priority of the storage bus when you put it back.

I think that should do it for ya.

 

[weedenbc]

Ok, so I just tried using a precision export bus and it crashed my ME system. I attached it and told it to export stone and then my ME network stopped responding. Trying to access the crafting terminal said it couldn't talk to the ME controller, and the ME controller was behaving weird. Most of the other components of the ME system weren't showing up and the power use dropped from about 120 Ae/t to about 6. I needed to break the ME controller and replace it and things went back to normal. And it never transferred any stone.

Is that just a system overload due to it trying to move all that stone?

 

[CaseyRobinson]

Another way to do it is to have the storage bus on the DSU set up with higher priority than your drives, then drop each storage cell (at least each one with stone) into an ME IO Port.

I'm kind of surprised the export bus didn't work.

 

[weedenbc]

Yeah, I'm not sure why the export bus trick didn't work either. But dumping the drives through a IO port worked.

 

[Zaflis]

Ok, so I just tried using a precision export bus and it crashed my ME system. I attached it and told it to export stone and then my ME network stopped responding. Trying to access the crafting terminal said it couldn't talk to the ME controller, and the ME controller was behaving weird. Most of the other components of the ME system weren't showing up and the power use dropped from about 120 Ae/t to about 6. I needed to break the ME controller and replace it and things went back to normal. And it never transferred any stone.

Is that just a system overload due to it trying to move all that stone?

I always use precision export bus to fill DSU's, it is the only way. Are you sure your ME network gets enough power?

 

[casilleroatr]

I always use precision export bus to fill DSU's, it is the only way. Are you sure your ME network gets enough power?

Its not the only way but it is simple. The fastest way to "defrag" your ME system is probably with a dedicated subnetwork with an I/O port. If the only storage in that network is your cobble dsu then using the I/O port to export to the network from the cell will empty the cell of all cobble and it won't remove the other stuff because there is no room. I think thats how it works anyway

 

[Zaflis]

But if the storage cells are not preformatted they could be any or all cells. Would have to run all the cells through IO port, but yeah that sounds like other option.

 

[TheCupcakeisaLie]

10 Transvector interfaces linked to the DSU with each face of the TI linked with 6 precision export buses. I had to move ~455 million cobblestone after a terrible error into a DSU, and it still took like 40 hours.

 

[Zaflis]

10 Transvector interfaces linked to the DSU with each face of the TI linked with 6 precision export buses. I had to move ~455 million cobblestone after a terrible error into a DSU, and it still took like 40 hours.

That gives me new possibly even faster idea, having any amount of ME interfaces set to export 8 stacks of cobblestone. Then use extra utils transfer node with 8 stack and max (16?) speed upgrades through pipe into DSU. It should be crazy fast (8 stacks moved per tick per interface?).

 

[casilleroatr]

That gives me new possibly even faster idea, having any amount of ME interfaces set to export 8 stacks of cobblestone. Then use extra utils transfer node with 8 stack and max (16?) speed upgrades through pipe into DSU. It should be crazy fast (8 stacks moved per tick per interface?).

I doubt it will move 8 stacks per tick. The transfer node only has one buffer slot.

 

[Zenthon_127]

Translocators with glowstone upgrades. Pretty sure that's a stack per tick.

 

[Not_Steve]

Steve's factory manager blocks in at 512*99 stacks per second