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Title: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: gateway on January 26, 2014, 05:11:02 PM I figured since some people will start to get their Sierras that we could have a separate thread for sharing information about these devices such as how to get started, software updates, firmware updates, general info, tips and over clocking.
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: gateway on January 26, 2014, 05:11:17 PM reserved.
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: gateway on January 26, 2014, 05:38:28 PM General Info:
Power:
Getting Started: I would personally suggest using a flavor of unix, for my miners I usually use ubuntu desktop 12.04x 64 bit, and enable vnc so I can remote desktop into my boxes. I then compile cgminer or bfgminer depending on your preference with the proper switches for the hashfast devices. [maybe someone using these on windows can explain the process of getting it setup] Once you have the miner software compiled its time to fire up your first box. Do these in order for now until some bugs are resolved. If you have one sierra make sure you have enough power, see power section above. Turning On Single:
You should be up and mining if no issues like power or other are plaguing you. Multiple Sierras one pc:
Once hashing, leave them alone or you can try the oc settings which I can talk about in another post and be aware if you use these your going to use more power from the outlet so the other sierras that are plugged in might stop working since you do not have enough power. This should get you hashing, ill try to keep this updated and post other things about the Sierra's as I get time. cgminer stuff: If your using cgminer you have 2 additional options right now with 3.11x --hfa-hash-clock <arg> Set hashfast clock speed (default: 550) --hfa-temp-overheat <arg> Set the hashfast overheat throttling temperature (default: 85) Ill talk about overclocking later and please make sure to read the warranty of your device before doing so and understand you could void it or cause issues with your mining hardware. Getting cgminer to work on windows with your HF device..
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kikaha on January 26, 2014, 08:28:56 PM A few things I have found.
10 (5x2) header on the top right of the board (closest to the right power supply) seem to be for the following 1 GND PWR Seasonic Power Supply 2 GND PWR 3 ?? ?? 4 ?? ?? 5 ?? ?? 1 is for Power, as verified on a Baby Jet. Know that these take a long time to turn off (why would you do this LOL) because of the numerous caps in the on-board supply. 2 is for Activity, and blinks while cgminer is running I haven't figured out what 3, 4 and 5 do yet. They don't seem to do anything that I can tell. ------------------------------- There is a USB 5-pin header also near the top right of the board. Typically, USB motherboard (IDC) connections are red-white-green-black-black for (power, D-, D+, Gnd, Gnd) (note that the last ground is typically not connected). But in the photo you can clearly see (from the outside of the board inward) black-green-white-red-black, which is completely wrong for USB. Testing the pins and then using my own USB IDC to Type A cable, I found the header on the board is correct. If you connect a standard IDC cable to the board with red starting on the outside of the board, it works perfectly. Don't know why they would use a USB cable with messed up color coding. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: aasl on January 27, 2014, 02:56:09 PM Anyone is using rapsberry pi to connect to sierra? Does RPi+minepeon support sierra?
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: gateway on January 27, 2014, 03:45:18 PM Anyone is using rapsberry pi to connect to sierra? Does RPi+minepeon support sierra? I'm using an old notebook with ubuntu desktop right now, I'm sure a pi would work, I can see about getting one. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: jspielberg on January 28, 2014, 03:28:34 PM There is a USB 5-pin header also near the top right of the board. Typically, USB motherboard (IDC) connections are red-white-green-black-black for (power, D-, D+, Gnd, Gnd) (note that the last ground is typically not connected). But in the photo you can clearly see (from the outside of the board inward) black-green-white-red-black, which is completely wrong for USB. Testing the pins and then using my own USB IDC to Type A cable, I found the header on the board is correct. If you connect a standard IDC cable to the board with red starting on the outside of the board, it works perfectly. Don't know why they would use a USB cable with messed up color coding. Hey Kikaha - I am prepping for MPP units (yeah pre-mature... but gives something to do while waiting). We haven't heard/seen much documentation on the actual hashing modules. Is that IDC USB header on the board used for daisy chaining (or for direct communication with the miner controller/host computer)? Trying to figure out if I should order some of these: http://www.amazon.com/Adapter-designed-motherboard-external-connector/dp/B000V6WD8A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1390922831&sr=8-1&keywords=idc+usb+cable Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: gateway on January 28, 2014, 07:31:29 PM There is a USB 5-pin header also near the top right of the board. Typically, USB motherboard (IDC) connections are red-white-green-black-black for (power, D-, D+, Gnd, Gnd) (note that the last ground is typically not connected). But in the photo you can clearly see (from the outside of the board inward) black-green-white-red-black, which is completely wrong for USB. Testing the pins and then using my own USB IDC to Type A cable, I found the header on the board is correct. If you connect a standard IDC cable to the board with red starting on the outside of the board, it works perfectly. Don't know why they would use a USB cable with messed up color coding. Hey Kikaha - I am prepping for MPP units (yeah pre-mature... but gives something to do while waiting). We haven't heard/seen much documentation on the actual hashing modules. Is that IDC USB header on the board used for daisy chaining (or for direct communication with the miner controller/host computer)? Trying to figure out if I should order some of these: http://www.amazon.com/Adapter-designed-motherboard-external-connector/dp/B000V6WD8A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1390922831&sr=8-1&keywords=idc+usb+cable If your wanting to mimic how a sierra is built you need 1 usb cable to the main board, the rest are daisy chained together. So with the sierra's their are 3 boards.. the top one has the usb as the main board that controls the others that are daisy chained at the bottom, and connected to the main board at the top. One thing to note is power, right now with the 2 power supplies, each board gets one pci-e connector for each power supply.. so the board has a pci in the front and back and one comes from psu left and one from psu right. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: jspielberg on January 29, 2014, 04:08:14 PM Thanks Gateway -
I am starting to prep for the MPP and trying to decide to build fake HFB (baby jet) or HFS (Seirra). I have been looking over the hashing module schematic. http://hashfast.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/board-layout.jpg I think I now understand what you are talking about to "top" and bottom" (Schematic J5 and J6), and the master USB J3. I am leaning now towards getting a couple of USB hubs, and just making them all individual HFB units and let cgminer deal with all the boards. That would require just adding the IDC USB headers to each board at J3, rather than the daisy chaining cables as well. Looks like the USB headers can be had from Sewell: Edit: Ordered http://www.monoprice.com/Product?p_id=2210&seq=1&format=2 and http://www.monoprice.com/Product?p_id=5442&seq=1&format=2 And newegg looks like it is running a special on the Corsair 100i for $95 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181032 I have been wary of ordering until I am sure that they are going to be shipping MPP within 30 days (they better!), as that is the return policy at newegg. Any have different plans for the MPP? Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kikaha on January 29, 2014, 04:52:17 PM Here is how my Sierra is hooked up.
USB Type B female port on the chassis to USB IDC female connector to USB IDC male header on Top (of the 2 stacked boards) (Board #1) Board #1 chain-down (flat ribbon cable) to the bottom of the 2 stacked boards (Board #2) Board #2 chain-down to the bottom board adjacent to the other bottom board (Board #3) For MPP, it would be good to know if you can chain together more than 3 boards. The chain cable looks pretty generic. Going to search for the connector and verify that the ribbon is straight through (looks like it). I also am going to try a big ass artic radiant cooler, since I hate water coolers. The Sewell part won't work since it has a male IDC and we need a female IDC. I ordered these from Amazon and they work fine. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000IV6S9S/ or course, you will also need one of these to go with it http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000R4OSFM (picture is wrong, but the two together work perfectly) Thanks Gateway - I am starting to prep for the MPP and trying to decide to build fake HFB (baby jet) or HFS (Seirra). I have been looking over the hashing module schematic. http://hashfast.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/board-layout.jpg I think I now understand what you are talking about to "top" and bottom" (Schematic J5 and J6), and the master USB J3. I am leaning now towards getting a couple of USB hubs, and just making them all individual HFB units and let cgminer deal with all the boards. That would require just adding the IDC USB headers to each board at J3, rather than the daisy chaining cables as well. Looks like the USB headers can be had from Sewell: http://sewelldirect.com/IDC-5-Male-Motherboard-Connector-Single-Row-to-USB-20-A-Male-Adapter-Cable.asp And newegg looks like it is running a special on the Corsair 100i for $95 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181032 I have been wary of ordering until I am sure that they are going to be shipping MPP within 30 days (they better!), as that is the return policy at newegg. Any have different plans for the MPP? Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: jspielberg on January 29, 2014, 05:26:24 PM Thanks Kikaha -
I have decided to convert my MPP's to BJ1's so, I guess I can skip on the daisy chain cables. I ordered: http://www.monoprice.com/Product?p_id=2210&seq=1&format=2 and http://www.monoprice.com/Product?p_id=5442&seq=1&format=2 Now we just need them to ship the MPP! Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: -ck on January 29, 2014, 08:04:43 PM New version of cgminer 3.12.0 I just posted has some communication improvements for usb errors that hopefully should help the reliability of these.
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: gateway on January 29, 2014, 09:45:40 PM Here are some visuals.. not the wire-frame is missing some connections but not needed to understand the daisy chaining. Ill see about getting the latest or a nice pic of one .. not gonna tear my apart right now :)
http://diyasic.com/images/HF-connection1.png This is a 3 board set up, with the master taking the usb plug http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000IV6S9S/ .. You need 3 daisy chain cables, Unfortunately Im not sure if these are custom, I can try to find out.. Slave 1 and Slave 2 connect together, the slave 1 connects to master 1 as in the diagram. Then plugging in the usb to the master usb connector controls all 3 boards. Here is also a shot of my sierra, not in this case Slave 1 is under Master 1 and Slave 2 is to the right. http://diyasic.com/images/sierra1.jpg Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: gateway on January 29, 2014, 09:47:24 PM New version of cgminer 3.12.0 I just posted has some communication improvements for usb errors that hopefully should help the reliability of these. +1 , trying it now, I hope it can resolve the multi sierras on one box.. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: dominic25 on January 30, 2014, 12:13:18 AM New version of cgminer 3.12.0 I just posted has some communication improvements for usb errors that hopefully should help the reliability of these. +1 , trying it now, I hope it can resolve the multi sierras on one box.. Hello, Is everyone who received their Sierras from batch1? Anyone in batch2? Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: jddebug on January 30, 2014, 12:44:28 AM New version of cgminer 3.12.0 I just posted has some communication improvements for usb errors that hopefully should help the reliability of these. +1 , trying it now, I hope it can resolve the multi sierras on one box.. gateway, did it fix the multi sierra problem? Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: gateway on January 30, 2014, 02:10:25 AM New version of cgminer 3.12.0 I just posted has some communication improvements for usb errors that hopefully should help the reliability of these. +1 , trying it now, I hope it can resolve the multi sierras on one box.. gateway, did it fix the multi sierra problem? I'm going to test it tomorrow, I had a ton of work todo today and didn't have time to mess around with them, and I always have to walk in the server room and do my magic trick if they dont work.. more info to come... Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: CryptKeeper on January 30, 2014, 06:33:56 AM New version of cgminer 3.12.0 I just posted has some communication improvements for usb errors that hopefully should help the reliability of these. +1 , trying it now, I hope it can resolve the multi sierras on one box.. Hello, Is everyone who received their Sierras from batch1? Anyone in batch2? I am in batch 2 and have not even got the confirmation mail. I don't think that they make it until 31st of january, looks more than mid-february to me. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: gateway on January 30, 2014, 07:18:47 AM New version of cgminer 3.12.0 I just posted has some communication improvements for usb errors that hopefully should help the reliability of these. +1 , trying it now, I hope it can resolve the multi sierras on one box.. Hello, Is everyone who received their Sierras from batch1? Anyone in batch2? I am in batch 2 and have not even got the confirmation mail. I don't think that they make it until 31st of january, looks more than mid-february to me. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: jddebug on January 30, 2014, 07:34:56 AM New version of cgminer 3.12.0 I just posted has some communication improvements for usb errors that hopefully should help the reliability of these. +1 , trying it now, I hope it can resolve the multi sierras on one box.. Hello, Is everyone who received their Sierras from batch1? Anyone in batch2? I am in batch 2 and have not even got the confirmation mail. I don't think that they make it until 31st of january, looks more than mid-february to me. I have several arriving soon. I'm really hoping they can be hosted on one host. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: jspielberg on January 30, 2014, 12:43:41 PM Thanks Gateway for the board layout pictures. That helps clear things up.
I haven't done much exploration of my BJ1 units other than to get them mining, and experiment with different external fan arrangements. I ordered some corsair i100 coolers in anticipation of the MPP. It is looking like the Seirra's seem more efficient than single BJ1s, so I may arrange my MPPs are seirras. Thanks again for the technical details of your sierra. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: gateway on January 30, 2014, 05:48:19 PM I have several arriving soon. I'm really hoping they can be hosted on one host. Im trying cg and bfg today with more than one plugged in.. Ill be testing the following: Starting with more than one sierra plugged in at start Stopping the miner and restarting it (biggest issue I had) Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: gateway on January 30, 2014, 05:52:08 PM Thanks Gateway for the board layout pictures. That helps clear things up. I haven't done much exploration of my BJ1 units other than to get them mining, and experiment with different external fan arrangements. I ordered some corsair i100 coolers in anticipation of the MPP. It is looking like the Seirra's seem more efficient than single BJ1s, so I may arrange my MPPs are seirras. Thanks again for the technical details of your sierra. What are your Jets running at temp wise? You need to only really worry if they pass 90 and at 100 the chip will shut every thing down. Also are you using the --hfa-hash-clock <number between 550-650> (Sweet spot for most of my boards are around 600 or 610, but you need to play with each board and look after a few hours at the place your mining) I also hang out on irc #eligius if you have any questions. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: gateway on January 30, 2014, 06:19:25 PM 2 Sierras running under cgminer 3.12x right now..
http://new.tinygrab.com/b5f5d64520ce9fff14b8b989b39a3c1a8cf8981395.png Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: gateway on January 30, 2014, 08:31:27 PM Update..
Im able to stop and restart cgminer about 95% of the time now and the boxes come back up but I had it a few times where I would have to power cycle and unplug and start fresh again.. If your 2nd or 3rd device comes up with ZOMBIE give it a few to re-kick in.. more testing results to come. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: spectre2112 on January 30, 2014, 09:17:52 PM What can you tell me about the "AUX POWER" connector?
Is it the same as what you'd use for a 3.5" Floppy Drive? I take it it's connected to the power supply - not somewhere else inside the case? I see it's a 5 pin connector, but most of the floppy drive connectors I see are 5 pins but 4 wires; what does this one have? Thanks for the info! EDIT: Sorry - mine hasn't arrived, or I'd be able to see for myself. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: dominic25 on January 31, 2014, 01:44:25 AM Hello, Does a beagle bone black work with the Sierras? If yes, what are the commands?
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: SolarSilver on January 31, 2014, 09:37:39 AM Hello, Does a beagle bone black work with the Sierras? Yes, you run Linux on it and install cgminer Quote If yes, what are the commands? Is this even a serious question? Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: Micky25 on February 01, 2014, 05:47:58 PM Thanks Gateway for the board layout pictures. That helps clear things up. Thanks again for the technical details of your sierra. + 1 and thanks for the thread. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: gateway on February 01, 2014, 08:41:40 PM Thanks Gateway for the board layout pictures. That helps clear things up. Thanks again for the technical details of your sierra. + 1 and thanks for the thread. No problem.. my next task is to figure out a good way to define what is the best clock rate per box.. they are all a bit different, I'm waiting for hopefully cgminer or bfgminer to allow me to adjust the clock rate via api and would write a script that would try clock rates though a range and report the best after running for some time since it takes a good 10-20 min for a good average reading. Also if you get these boxes I suggest you mine at the eligius pool :) and if you do ever have questions about the pool or sierras im usually hanging out on the irc channel #eligius Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: gateway on February 01, 2014, 08:44:55 PM Here are some mining boxes pics
http://diyasic.com/images/sierra2.jpg These are on our test bench in our server room.. finding enough power on that bench was quite a challenge :) you can see on the right a jupiter with its cover off.. http://diyasic.com/images/sierra3.jpg Back of some boxes.. 2 psu's one usb connector out per box.. http://diyasic.com/images/sierra4.jpg Some of them in one of my racks.. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: jddebug on February 01, 2014, 08:55:03 PM Thanks Gateway for the board layout pictures. That helps clear things up. Thanks again for the technical details of your sierra. + 1 and thanks for the thread. No problem.. my next task is to figure out a good way to define what is the best clock rate per box.. they are all a bit different, I'm waiting for hopefully cgminer or bfgminer to allow me to adjust the clock rate via api and would write a script that would try clock rates though a range and report the best after running for some time since it takes a good 10-20 min for a good average reading. Also if you get these boxes I suggest you mine at the eligius pool :) and if you do ever have questions about the pool or sierras im usually hanging out on the irc channel #eligius What have you found to be a good starting point for OC and is there a point where the tradeoff for speed is drowned by the extra wattage? How many watts can the PSU's support? Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: gateway on February 01, 2014, 09:32:26 PM Thanks Gateway for the board layout pictures. That helps clear things up. Thanks again for the technical details of your sierra. + 1 and thanks for the thread. No problem.. my next task is to figure out a good way to define what is the best clock rate per box.. they are all a bit different, I'm waiting for hopefully cgminer or bfgminer to allow me to adjust the clock rate via api and would write a script that would try clock rates though a range and report the best after running for some time since it takes a good 10-20 min for a good average reading. Also if you get these boxes I suggest you mine at the eligius pool :) and if you do ever have questions about the pool or sierras im usually hanging out on the irc channel #eligius What have you found to be a good starting point for OC and is there a point where the tradeoff for speed is drowned by the extra wattage? How many watts can the PSU's support? 600 or 610, but OC at your own risk.. Off the top of my head I dont recall what the psu's are.. maybe 750's op 850s.. i know the jets come with 1000 watts Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: -ck on February 01, 2014, 11:38:40 PM I'd say 612 is the magic number. The device has only certain values that work and if you ask it for 610 it rounds up to 612 automatically. It's well within the power limits of the device at that speed and most of the silicon seems to be happy at that value from the various reports I've heard.
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: dietrich67 on February 02, 2014, 06:24:31 PM In one of the initial posts you mention how to get a Sierra going on a Win7 machine. I was wondering if anyone has actually verified that works.
When Hashfast redid their website, the new sierra prose on there is much more specific to Linux than the original. Not having any Linux rig around and with my Sierra (hopefully) coming towards month-end I'm a little worried it will be sitting here not mining while I madly scramble to get something connected to it so I can run it. Looking forward to seeing overclocking FAQs and results. Thanks big time for creating this thread. D Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: jddebug on February 02, 2014, 07:14:09 PM In one of the initial posts you mention how to get a Sierra going on a Win7 machine. I was wondering if anyone has actually verified that works. When Hashfast redid their website, the new sierra prose on there is much more specific to Linux than the original. Not having any Linux rig around and with my Sierra (hopefully) coming towards month-end I'm a little worried it will be sitting here not mining while I madly scramble to get something connected to it so I can run it. Looking forward to seeing overclocking FAQs and results. Thanks big time for creating this thread. D Seems to work equally as well with windows 7 or linux. I am using both. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: dietrich67 on February 02, 2014, 09:40:43 PM In one of the initial posts you mention how to get a Sierra going on a Win7 machine. I was wondering if anyone has actually verified that works. When Hashfast redid their website, the new sierra prose on there is much more specific to Linux than the original. Not having any Linux rig around and with my Sierra (hopefully) coming towards month-end I'm a little worried it will be sitting here not mining while I madly scramble to get something connected to it so I can run it. Looking forward to seeing overclocking FAQs and results. Thanks big time for creating this thread. D Seems to work equally as well with windows 7 or linux. I am using both. Thanks for the info. Much appreciated. Does the hashrate on the Sierra automatically adjust higher/lower based on temperature, or is it a manual setting? Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: -ck on February 03, 2014, 12:15:29 AM It's currently a manual setting for a single speed. I have code in cgminer now for adjusting each die separately automatically by temperature but new firmware will be needed for the devices to benefit from this code. Fan control is coming soon too. I'm closely working with one of the engineers on that front and hopefully they will make it easy to flash the new firmware once it's finalised.
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: spectre2112 on February 03, 2014, 03:40:24 AM Would someone who has looked inside their HF please tell me what color the wires are on the white 5 pin Auxiliary Power connector are (back to front) - it's the one near the USB header on the motherboard.
Mine hasn't arrived yet, or I'd do it myself. TYIA! Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: gateway on February 07, 2014, 10:00:16 PM Hey guys, I just ran into an issue of wanting to upgrade because a new version of software and or firmware was released. I was bitten by the my Sierras where down over night bug and just wanted to say to everyone here esp since this is still all wip with miner software and or firmware please jump on things quickly because well you end up like me with lost btc generated. Anyhow things happen and I will do my best on this forum to post my results of new updates and smoke test them so you guys dont have to.. Ill plan to donate one sierra to updates and test them for a day or so to make sure nothings is wrong and report back here.
Right now their was a bug in cgminer 3.12.1 that came out last night that if you updated you prob know that something broke after a period of time, this now has a hotfix which im testing, if you want to avoid both I suggest using 3.10 for the weekend (esp if you dont have access to your boxes easily.) Ill report back in a few hours before im off to the SF Beer Week opening party and let you guys know how the 3.12.2 is doing with the Sierras. cheers! More updates and into go come :) Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: dominic25 on February 20, 2014, 02:00:58 PM Hey guys, I just ran into an issue of wanting to upgrade because a new version of software and or firmware was released. I was bitten by the my Sierras where down over night bug and just wanted to say to everyone here esp since this is still all wip with miner software and or firmware please jump on things quickly because well you end up like me with lost btc generated. Anyhow things happen and I will do my best on this forum to post my results of new updates and smoke test them so you guys dont have to.. Ill plan to donate one sierra to updates and test them for a day or so to make sure nothings is wrong and report back here. Right now their was a bug in cgminer 3.12.1 that came out last night that if you updated you prob know that something broke after a period of time, this now has a hotfix which im testing, if you want to avoid both I suggest using 3.10 for the weekend (esp if you dont have access to your boxes easily.) Ill report back in a few hours before im off to the SF Beer Week opening party and let you guys know how the 3.12.2 is doing with the Sierras. cheers! More updates and into go come :) How was beer night? :-) How has the Sierras been running? Are you running them w/ a Beagle? Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on February 24, 2014, 11:37:10 PM can anyone confirm if any batch 2 sierra's have been delivered please?
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: CryptKeeper on February 25, 2014, 07:18:41 AM can anyone confirm if any batch 2 sierra's have been delivered please? I am still waiting for my batch #2 sierras! :( Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: aasl on February 25, 2014, 02:30:13 PM can anyone confirm if any batch 2 sierra's have been delivered please? I am still waiting for my batch #2 sierras! :( OMG! I am in batch 4... HF released the new 2TB miner which is said to be delivered on April. Hopefully they can send all sierra out before then. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on February 25, 2014, 07:14:42 PM can anyone confirm if any batch 2 sierra's have been delivered please? I am still waiting for my batch #2 sierras! :( OMG! I am in batch 4... HF released the new 2TB miner which is said to be delivered on April. Hopefully they can send all sierra out before then. yea me too, their almost a month late and the next difficulty is going to be a killer Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: -ck on February 28, 2014, 03:45:56 AM Posted cgminer 4.0.1 which has major fixes for these devices.
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on February 28, 2014, 09:47:22 AM Posted cgminer 4.0.1 which has major fixes for these devices. Great work.All we need now is the sierra's! Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: -ck on February 28, 2014, 10:35:28 AM Posted cgminer 4.0.1 which has major fixes for these devices. Great work.All we need now is the sierra's! Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on March 01, 2014, 02:19:44 AM Posted cgminer 4.0.1 which has major fixes for these devices. Great work.All we need now is the sierra's! Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: -ck on March 01, 2014, 02:20:48 AM Posted cgminer 4.0.1 which has major fixes for these devices. Great work.All we need now is the sierra's! As if I could make them downloadable... Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: Internet151 on March 01, 2014, 02:29:37 AM I'm also waiting for batch #2 sierras...
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on March 01, 2014, 02:40:37 AM Posted cgminer 4.0.1 which has major fixes for these devices. Great work.All we need now is the sierra's! As if I could make them downloadable... ah, now i understand, if only they could be downloadable. i bet even then hashfast would still be late in delivering or they would get corrupted in the download Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: aasl on March 01, 2014, 02:43:27 AM how to compile the latest cgminer on rapsberry pi?
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on March 03, 2014, 11:39:55 PM any batch 2 customers had any notice if they are delivering yet?
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on March 04, 2014, 02:30:39 AM if anyone would like to know further info on batch 2 sierras, this is what i have found out so far thanks to other members on the forum :-
Quote from: pmorici on Today at 01:52:36 AM Quote from: kevin911 on March 03, 2014, 11:53:04 PM i know this is off topic but, does anyone know if any batch 2 sierra's have/are being delivered yet? it's now over a month past its guaranteed date and starting to take the p***. You might be interested in the IceDrill thread, they just released a audit report of their assets. They were the largest single buyer of Hashfast Sierra units and they were supposed to be ahead of everyone with October delivery. At any rate their report shows they have only received roughly 12% of the Sierras they ordered as of a week or two ago if that tells you anything about when you might be seeing yours... https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=269216.msg5462543#msg5462543 Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: CryptKeeper on March 04, 2014, 07:07:48 AM if anyone would like to know further info on batch 2 sierras, this is what i have found out so far thanks to other members on the forum :- Quote from: pmorici on Today at 01:52:36 AM Quote from: kevin911 on March 03, 2014, 11:53:04 PM i know this is off topic but, does anyone know if any batch 2 sierra's have/are being delivered yet? it's now over a month past its guaranteed date and starting to take the p***. You might be interested in the IceDrill thread, they just released a audit report of their assets. They were the largest single buyer of Hashfast Sierra units and they were supposed to be ahead of everyone with October delivery. At any rate their report shows they have only received roughly 12% of the Sierras they ordered as of a week or two ago if that tells you anything about when you might be seeing yours... https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=269216.msg5462543#msg5462543 Thank you for this. I am a batch 2 sierra customer too and still waiting... >:( I have mailed them several times but have only got the standard reply "working through the order chain blabla", they don't even verified my shipping address yet! I have got a mail from my hosting company that they are awaiting a large sierra order which are promised for the first week of march (but not in full). I think, smaller orders like mine will be earliest deliver on mid-march. :( Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on March 04, 2014, 10:44:26 AM mid march is being hopeful considering icedrill have only received 12% of their order after spending 20,000 BTC.
I hope they can make it early/mid march, otherwise these units are going to be not much more than just big paperweights :( Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: gateway on March 05, 2014, 12:10:00 AM I'm moving any posts to this area.. http://forums.hashfast.com/forum/hardware-ab/sierra/47-sierra-getting-started-guide (http://forums.hashfast.com/forum/hardware-ab/sierra/47-sierra-getting-started-guide)
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on March 06, 2014, 05:03:48 AM just had an e-mail from hashfast :-
Batch 2 is targeted to ship by end of March - beginning of April. Apologies for the vague time window. When your order is ready for shipment, you will receive a shipping confirmation/ tracking email and should receive your order soon thereafter. My apologies for the lack of communication and the hassle this has caused you. Thank you for your patience during this time. Best Regards, Chris HashFast Technical Support Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: perezoso on March 06, 2014, 05:15:29 AM Holy shit... Texas Bitcoin Conference. Austin. March 5th and 6th. Hashfast is there? Yes, they are.
Edit: Scratch that... they may not physically be there. Lucky for them! Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: -ck on March 08, 2014, 05:11:40 AM New version of cgminer, 4.1.0, out with dramatic improvements and new features for these devices:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.msg5581480#msg5581480 Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: bkminer on March 10, 2014, 12:49:47 AM I'm a Batch 3 Sierra customer and the email I received only said "we anticipate shipping by March 31st." I talked to Chris on the phone and he suggested (no confirmation, he doesn't know for sure) that Ciarra might be producing in batches, and then re-tooling for other customers and then back to HashFast orders. That would explain the erratic deliveries.
On the IceDrill thread it seems they've received 169THs(?) out of 253TH/s...their order was smaller than originally desired because they didn't raise enough BTC for the full 500TH/s... check the thread to be sure. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on March 10, 2014, 08:14:53 AM Their anticipating doing a lot by March 31st, batch 2 sierra's still haven't been built/shipped , they sent me an e-mail saying that they targeted to ship by end of March - beginning of April. + batch 3 sierras & babyjets, batch 4 by end of April beginning of may then the new evo units. somewhere inbetween all that is the MPP units. they got a seriously big rabbit to pull out of this hat trick
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: bkminer on March 10, 2014, 10:55:40 PM I'm still looking for where they said everything through Batch 4 will be shipped by March 31st... maybe Facebook
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: winit on March 11, 2014, 09:40:14 PM Having an issue where windows closes Cgminer due to USB error
HFHash USB write err:<-7> LIBUSB_Error_Timeout attempted reset got err:<0> LIBUSB_SUCCESS hfa_send_frame: USB Send error, ret 0 amount 0 vs. tx_length 64, retrying CGminer then crashes and has to close. Also have one Sierra that doesnt power at all, no LED lights and not recognised when USb connected to windows. Any help appreciated. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: winit on March 12, 2014, 01:14:10 AM Can someone treat me like an idiot and tell me exactly where I enter --hfa-hash-clock 600?
Im using CGminer 4.1 I've managed to get 4 Sierra's hashing from one PC, adding more Sierra's just causes it to crash. Is this normal? Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: jddebug on March 12, 2014, 01:35:24 AM Can someone treat me like an idiot and tell me exactly where I enter --hfa-hash-clock 600? Im using CGminer 4.1 I've managed to get 4 Sierra's hashing from one PC, adding more Sierra's just causes it to crash. Is this normal? What OS? How are you currently starting cgminer? If from command line linux: ./cgminer --hfa-hash-clock 600 If using config file: "hfa-hash-clock" : "600", Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: winit on March 12, 2014, 01:54:55 AM Hi JD, thanks for the reply.
I downloaded CGminer 4.1 to windows 7 - inside the zip is CGminer.exe which I run from a batch file along the lines of @echo on cgminer.exe -o pooldetails:3333 -u myusername -p mypassword I've tried adding in the '--hfa-hash-clock 600' on the above string and it causes CGminer to load and immediately quit. Obviously I'm a moron for not knowing this stuff so really do appreciate the help. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: jddebug on March 12, 2014, 02:20:34 AM Hi JD, thanks for the reply. I downloaded CGminer 4.1 to windows 7 - inside the zip is CGminer.exe which I run from a batch file along the lines of @echo on cgminer.exe -o pooldetails:3333 -u myusername -p mypassword I've tried adding in the '--hfa-hash-clock 600' on the above string and it causes CGminer to load and immediately quit. Obviously I'm a moron for not knowing this stuff so really do appreciate the help. cgminer.exe -o pooldetails:3333 -u myusername -p mypassword --hfa-hash-clock 600 Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: winit on March 12, 2014, 02:27:38 AM Thanks, just crashes CGminer when I do that.
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: minternj on March 12, 2014, 02:30:31 AM Dont run it from a batch file so you can see why its closing.
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: winit on March 12, 2014, 05:51:26 PM So after a little over 24hrs I've learned a little and been angry a lot.
Of the 9 Sierra's 2 are useless. 1 fails to power up although did power for a short time today, on connecting it to CGminer it immediately gave an error along the lines of 'Main Board 12V error' and crashed CGminer. The other problem Sierra was running fine but now does nothing but crash CGminer with Libusb errors. I've had a few hours of easy running with the other 7 machines but now im having to restart every 20 mins or so. Whilst the .4 firmware may solve some of this, there appears to be no support for windows users with the instructions only talking about Unix or babyjet users flashing their cards. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: SolarSilver on March 12, 2014, 06:26:27 PM So after a little over 24hrs I've learned a little and been angry a lot. Of the 9 Sierra's 2 are useless. 1 fails to power up although did power for a short time today, on connecting it to CGminer it immediately gave an error along the lines of 'Main Board 12V error' and crashed CGminer. Those quality numbers seem to reflect what other customers have been suffering Out of the 4 BBJets I got, 1 was a dud. And Icedrill had about 25% of their 250 TH arrive not working, so they needed to RMA 60 units. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: winit on March 12, 2014, 09:05:06 PM Losing the will to live here. Having gone through the ballache of installing Ubuntu in order to update the firmware, in trying to update all I get back is this
('confirm is ', False) ('FIRMWARE_DIR is ', '.') UC_HFU_FILE at './uc3.cropped.hfu'. READSERIAL found at 'x86_64/readserial'. HFUPDATE found at 'x86_64/hfupdate'. ENTERLOADER found at 'x86_64/enterloader'. HashFast Firmware Updater Reading serial number from module. x86_64/readserial: symbol lookup error: x86_64/readserial: undefined symbol: libusb_strerror Entering Boot Loader... x86_64/enterloader: symbol lookup error: x86_64/enterloader: undefined symbol: libusb_strerror Traceback (most recent call last): File "./field_firmware_update.py", line 184, in <module> firmware_updater() File "./field_firmware_update.py", line 143, in firmware_updater enterloader() File "./field_firmware_update.py", line 62, in enterloader subprocess.check_call([ENTERLOADER]) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 511, in check_call raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd) CalledProcessError: Command '['x86_64/enterloader']' returned non-zero exit status 127 Command '['x86_64/enterloader']' returned non-zero exit status 127 Firmware Update had an error. Please retry or report to HashFast Support. Same response for a machine that works and the machine that has the LIBUSB error. So now what? Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: -ck on March 12, 2014, 10:37:55 PM Losing the will to live here. Having gone through the ballache of installing Ubuntu in order to update the firmware, in trying to update all I get back is this Looks like you're on an older ubuntu. For whatever reason, hashfast's loader is not that portable and looks like it needs a recent ubuntu, probably 13.10Code: Reading serial number from module. So now what? Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: winit on March 12, 2014, 10:48:07 PM Hey Thanks CK... I'll see about updating my Ubuntu tomorrow and see if I have any joy there.
Do you think the firmware will resolve the machine with the LIBSUB error? Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: -ck on March 12, 2014, 11:03:12 PM Hey Thanks CK... I'll see about updating my Ubuntu tomorrow and see if I have any joy there. Doubt it. From what I've seen of the devices out there, some have unfixable problems and need to be RMAd.Do you think the firmware will resolve the machine with the LIBSUB error? Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: aasl on March 13, 2014, 02:34:41 AM shouldn't hf test the devices before shipping? the fault rate seems so high! and I wonder how long the RMA takes?
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: HashFast_CL on March 13, 2014, 08:16:22 AM shouldn't hf test the devices before shipping? the fault rate seems so high! and I wonder how long the RMA takes? We do test the devices before shipping. But vendor implementation of the USB spec varies. If your laptop doesn't work, try your desktop. A high quality PCIE/PCI USB adapter often helps. If the boards are having trouble running in a chain, try running one or two independently and isolating the problematic board on its own USB and cgminer instance. Always use the latest firmware (0.4) and cgminer (4.1.0). Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: winit on March 13, 2014, 09:00:52 AM Well so far 6 emails across 48 hrs to HF and not one reply so RMA is looking like taking a while.
Phoning tech support just gets a 'We're not able to take your call right now' Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: winit on March 13, 2014, 10:01:46 AM I opened up the case on the non powering machine and found that the yellow / black connector on the top board was not seated, in fact it's retaining clip was pushed into the top of the neighbouring cap with a dent.
I have managed to seat it correctly but a little concerned about powering it if the cap is damaged? Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: winit on March 13, 2014, 02:00:59 PM Finally updated the firmware on all machines, looking a tiny bit more powerful than before.
The unit which wouldn't power is now fine. The unit with the LIBUSB error is still the same after firmware upgrade so looks like that machine isnt going to play ball at all. I took the lid off and see that the board revision is 1.0 where as the other machine is 1.2. I've no idea what to unplug / leave plugged to test each board individually. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on March 15, 2014, 12:08:44 AM anyone else from batch 2 received their sierra order yet?
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: bkminer on March 16, 2014, 04:01:22 PM It seems HashFast has stopped shipping all together.... and I don't think they're processing "refunds" for people who paid in USD.
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: aasl on March 16, 2014, 09:05:39 PM shouldn't hf test the devices before shipping? the fault rate seems so high! and I wonder how long the RMA takes? We do test the devices before shipping. But vendor implementation of the USB spec varies. If your laptop doesn't work, try your desktop. A high quality PCIE/PCI USB adapter often helps. If the boards are having trouble running in a chain, try running one or two independently and isolating the problematic board on its own USB and cgminer instance. Always use the latest firmware (0.4) and cgminer (4.1.0). Wow! Thanks for the official reply! Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: winit on March 17, 2014, 09:33:26 AM Please detail what I should disconnect to isolate a single board to try and determine which is giving me the LIBUSB error.
Nearly a week has passed and not one response to my emails to hashfast regarding my faulty units. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: HashFast_CL on March 17, 2014, 09:59:06 AM Please detail what I should disconnect to isolate a single board to try and determine which is giving me the LIBUSB error. Nearly a week has passed and not one response to my emails to hashfast regarding my faulty units. Use the latest cgminer and firmware. Run at 550Mhz when troubleshooting. Take pictures of the original config before you change anything so you can put it back. The ribbon cable is used to link the chain. Disconnect all the ribbon cables to isolate a board. Use two PCIE power cables from the same PSU for an isolated board. Connect the power cable (white connector) from the board to its PSU, if it is not already. Connect the USB cable (black connector) to the board, but make sure the thick black wire is closest to the ASIC (red wire farthest from ASIC). Try running the boards in pairs (sets of two). If that works, add the third back in. Some boards don't like to the be the master (first board in chain) so try boards in different orders. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on March 17, 2014, 11:22:14 PM It seems HashFast has stopped shipping all together.... and I don't think they're processing "refunds" for people who paid in USD. they seem to have processed some orders, winit was order 2211 but yet he's got his, i'm order 2434 & still waiting for mine. Has anyone else with a higher order than 2211 received their order yet or some notification that is even being dispatched? this isn't a rhetorical question, i'm actually asking all members reading this if they can throw some light on this subject and let us know whats going on as hashfast is giving us nothing. we need to work together here. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: CryptKeeper on March 17, 2014, 11:25:05 PM It seems HashFast has stopped shipping all together.... and I don't think they're processing "refunds" for people who paid in USD. they seem to have processed some orders, winit was order 2211 but yet he's got his, i'm order 2434 & still waiting for mine. Has anyone else with a higher order than 2211 received their order yet or some notification that is even being dispatched? this isn't a rhetorical question, i'm actually asking all members reading this if they can throw some light on this subject and let us know whats going on as hashfast is giving us nothing. we need to work together here. I have order 23xx and I am also still waiting... Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: winit on March 18, 2014, 12:30:15 AM Please detail what I should disconnect to isolate a single board to try and determine which is giving me the LIBUSB error. Nearly a week has passed and not one response to my emails to hashfast regarding my faulty units. Use the latest cgminer and firmware. Run at 550Mhz when troubleshooting. Take pictures of the original config before you change anything so you can put it back. The ribbon cable is used to link the chain. Disconnect all the ribbon cables to isolate a board. Use two PCIE power cables from the same PSU for an isolated board. Connect the power cable (white connector) from the board to its PSU, if it is not already. Connect the USB cable (black connector) to the board, but make sure the thick black wire is closest to the ASIC (red wire farthest from ASIC). Try running the boards in pairs (sets of two). If that works, add the third back in. Some boards don't like to the be the master (first board in chain) so try boards in different orders. Thanks for the response, any chance of having an email response to my tech support emails regarding my dead machines. Your auto reply claims reply within 1 business day... I count 4 with no reply... simply adding to the damages you have caused being several months late in delivering my order. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: bkminer on March 18, 2014, 02:16:05 AM My question to HashFast_CL is, will Batch 3 Sierra customers ever see their Sierras? By May 31st? June 31st? I'm doubting that it will be March 31st because I haven't even gotten the address confirmation email....
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: winit on March 18, 2014, 10:16:38 AM Please detail what I should disconnect to isolate a single board to try and determine which is giving me the LIBUSB error. Nearly a week has passed and not one response to my emails to hashfast regarding my faulty units. Use the latest cgminer and firmware. Run at 550Mhz when troubleshooting. Take pictures of the original config before you change anything so you can put it back. The ribbon cable is used to link the chain. Disconnect all the ribbon cables to isolate a board. Use two PCIE power cables from the same PSU for an isolated board. Connect the power cable (white connector) from the board to its PSU, if it is not already. Connect the USB cable (black connector) to the board, but make sure the thick black wire is closest to the ASIC (red wire farthest from ASIC). Try running the boards in pairs (sets of two). If that works, add the third back in. Some boards don't like to the be the master (first board in chain) so try boards in different orders. Can you provide a step by step guide to isolating a board because I dont want to start taking this expensive machine apart to end up being told that it was my fault it now doesnt work. 1 machine simply throws the LIBUSB error from startup the other runs for a minute and then throws 'No valid hashes for 22 seconds, shutting down thread. Both are running the latest frimware and CGminer Two very expensive machines not working for a week and no response to my emails. I appreciate you have responded here but to be honest expect much more from you. These machines should be on their way back to you to be replaced. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on March 18, 2014, 10:18:26 AM this is from a different thread :-
Has anyone else with a higher order than 2211 received their order yet or some notification that is even being dispatched? this isn't a rhetorical question, i'm actually asking all members reading this if they can throw some light on this subject and let us know whats going on as hashfast is giving us nothing. we need to work together here. They don't even return my emails. I have an order about 100 below that (21XX). Nothing shipped. No notifications whatsoever. so much for them following the order chain. how come winit got his/hers first? Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: CryptKeeper on March 18, 2014, 10:22:06 AM this is from a different thread :- Has anyone else with a higher order than 2211 received their order yet or some notification that is even being dispatched? this isn't a rhetorical question, i'm actually asking all members reading this if they can throw some light on this subject and let us know whats going on as hashfast is giving us nothing. we need to work together here. They don't even return my emails. I have an order about 100 below that (21XX). Nothing shipped. No notifications whatsoever. so much for them following the order chain. how come winit got his/hers first? I think it could be order of payment... Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: -ck on March 18, 2014, 12:52:25 PM New version of cgminer out, 4.2.0 with an important memory leak fix for hashfast devices and now solo mining support.
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on March 23, 2014, 12:25:03 AM 2 weeks without a word from hashfast.
anyone got any news on whats going on? Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: SolarSilver on March 23, 2014, 08:05:50 AM 2 weeks without a word from hashfast. anyone got any news on whats going on? 2 weeks? You mean 7 weeks without any shipping Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on March 23, 2014, 10:29:17 AM 2 weeks without a word from hashfast. anyone got any news on whats going on? 2 weeks? You mean 7 weeks without any shipping its been less than 7 weeks since winit got his order Order 2211 « Sent to: kevin911 on: February 16, 2014, 02:32:40 PM » « You have forwarded or responded to this message. » Reply with quoteQuote ReplyReply Remove this messageDelete Hi Kevin, Order 2211 - 9 X Sierra - no deliver, no tracking, no address confirmation email, no response to phone calls or emails. Extremely unimpressed. It appears you have proven that order numbers higher than mine have been delivered, can you provide me further details of this? and now he's asking for advice about his order? so there HAS been shipphing in the last 7 weeks. just not to most. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: SolarSilver on March 23, 2014, 08:28:44 PM its been less than 7 weeks since winit got his order Order 2211 « Sent to: kevin911 on: February 16, 2014, 02:32:40 PM » so there HAS been shipphing in the last 7 weeks. just not to most. So one shipment has gone out to a regular customer not icedrill Sorry but under "shipping" I mean getting CIARA to pump out 500 units / day to fulfill all those BBJet MPP obligations and the Upgrade kits that should have shipped out before the Sierra's come into play. So winit got 9 Sierra units, I'm sure that is something that slipped through and was not planned. Those units should have been going to Icedrill to resolve their 60 RMA units. Hashfasts lawyer will not be pleased about this. And no other shipped Sierra systems have been confirmed, other than the unit Gateway got Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on March 24, 2014, 12:41:17 AM its been less than 7 weeks since winit got his order Order 2211 « Sent to: kevin911 on: February 16, 2014, 02:32:40 PM » so there HAS been shipphing in the last 7 weeks. just not to most. So one shipment has gone out to a regular customer not icedrill Sorry but under "shipping" I mean getting CIARA to pump out 500 units / day to fulfill all those BBJet MPP obligations and the Upgrade kits that should have shipped out before the Sierra's come into play. So winit got 9 Sierra units, I'm sure that is something that slipped through and was not planned. Those units should have been going to Icedrill to resolve their 60 RMA units. Hashfasts lawyer will not be pleased about this. And no other shipped Sierra systems have been confirmed, other than the unit Gateway got ok, i got an email from hashfast saying they are shipping end of this month beginning of next month. noot that hashfast can be taken for what they write, do you happen to know any more info as to when we could possibly be seeing our orders? any info is much appreciated. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: aasl on March 26, 2014, 03:14:53 AM I got the mail. batch 3 and 4 to be shipped in May and June. 1.2T in that time... any difference than just send a brick?
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on March 26, 2014, 12:30:44 PM I know this is off topic but i hope that hashfast reads this forum, i would just like to thank them for completely destroying what i had. so far i lost my business due to me investing into them and using my savings, lost my house due to losing my business and now having to stay at a friends house in order to pick up my life and start over.
I have tried contacting them via phone and e-mail, but keep getting the same bs. this cant go on! their ruining lives! Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: solarion on March 26, 2014, 02:49:35 PM I'm order #1955 and haven't gotten anything from scamfast, save the latest excuse letter. Wonderful to see they sent a bunch of later orders. ::)
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on April 03, 2014, 01:07:42 PM sooo, any batch 2 sierra customers had their orders yet or an e-mail of confirmation? considering hashfast are saying they will have batch 2 complete by end of April.
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: SolarSilver on April 04, 2014, 08:22:00 AM sooo, any batch 2 sierra customers had their orders yet or an e-mail of confirmation? considering hashfast are saying they will have batch 2 complete by end of April. No peep from HF, but they did post you can upgrade your Sierra order for their new faster vapourware with an increase of speed, but with a super late May (June/July/August) delivery https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=262052.msg5926623#msg5926623 Complete bollocks, of course In the mean time, no Batch #1 MPP delivered (they might after late May 2014) no Upgrade kits delivered So of course no Sierras At todays USD/BTC exchange rate, it only makes sense to ask for a refund Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: solarion on April 04, 2014, 08:56:49 AM ...are they actually giving refunds though? These guys seriously need to spend some time in lockup.
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: QuiveringGibbage on April 08, 2014, 01:58:51 PM Hi ho, just received a Sierra... :) pictures here http://imgur.com/a/mRbMZ#o7nT7Jv
Code: cgminer version 4.2.3 - Started: [2014-04-08 22:58:35] LARRY was misbehaving at first, all i had was a red led. no fan noise, nothing. use default cgminer settings and BAM!! the fans kicked in and it was roaring!! and then suddenly nothing and this spits out on cgminer: Code: [2014-04-08 20:50:28] HFS LARRY: Thermal overload tripped! Shutting down device LARRY didn't want to run for more then 2 secs... so i lowered the clocks settings down to 300 (--hfa-hash-clock 300) and LARRY decided to hash for more the 10mins. After which I kept upping the MHz by 50 every 10 mins, all the way to 604 (--hfa-hash-clock 604). 1440W at the wall. Happy mining :) QG Thanks conman!! Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: solarion on April 08, 2014, 05:23:25 PM grats.
order #? Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on April 08, 2014, 11:07:01 PM Hi ho, just received a Sierra... :) pictures here http://imgur.com/a/mRbMZ#o7nT7Jv Code: cgminer version 4.2.3 - Started: [2014-04-08 22:58:35] LARRY was misbehaving at first, all i had was a red led. no fan noise, nothing. use default cgminer settings and BAM!! the fans kicked in and it was roaring!! and then suddenly nothing and this spits out on cgminer: Code: [2014-04-08 20:50:28] HFS LARRY: Thermal overload tripped! Shutting down device LARRY didn't want to run for more then 2 secs... so i lowered the clocks settings down to 300 (--hfa-hash-clock 300) and LARRY decided to hash for more the 10mins. After which I kept upping the MHz by 50 every 10 mins, all the way to 604 (--hfa-hash-clock 604). 1440W at the wall. Happy mining :) QG Thanks conman!! hi. can you tell us your order number please Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on April 09, 2014, 09:03:36 PM so was that message from QuiveringGibbage just a hoax? cause no one else had anything and now he/she's conveniently not replying.
smells like a hashspy among us feeding us more false hope hmmm Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: -ck on April 09, 2014, 09:32:11 PM so was that message from QuiveringGibbage just a hoax? cause no one else had anything and now he/she's conveniently not replying. No, he bought it second hand.smells like a hashspy among us feeding us more false hope hmmm Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on April 09, 2014, 10:45:31 PM Makes sense. So still no batch 2 sierra's or any fracking word about them.
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: yuriygeorge on April 10, 2014, 02:33:48 AM 1) Is the Sierra pretty loud? Can it be left running in the guest room with the door closed without bothering anyone in the rest of a condo? If a guest is over and is to sleep in the guest room, is that thing gonna be too loud for him? How loud, a hair dryer, an airplane, in the middle, or better?
2) Do I really have to prepare myself to doing the paper clip trick for the power supply? Any great resources for that? Thank you dear honorable Sierra owners. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: -ck on April 10, 2014, 02:39:42 AM 1) Is the Sierra pretty loud? Can it be left running in the guest room with the door closed without bothering anyone in the rest of a condo? If a guest is over and is to sleep in the guest room, is that thing gonna be too loud for him? How loud, a hair dryer, an airplane, in the middle, or better? It depends entirely on the ambient temperature as to how loud it is because I made the fan control adjust for optimum efficiency in terms of the lowest fanspeed required to maintain safe temperatures. If the room is warm they will get very loud but if it's cold they're pretty unobtrusive when behind a door/wall. They come with their own PSUs so there is no need to power them separately.2) Do I really have to prepare myself to doing the paper clip trick for the power supply? Any great resources for that? Thank you dear honorable Sierra owners. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: yuriygeorge on April 10, 2014, 03:13:11 AM 1) Is the Sierra pretty loud? Can it be left running in the guest room with the door closed without bothering anyone in the rest of a condo? If a guest is over and is to sleep in the guest room, is that thing gonna be too loud for him? How loud, a hair dryer, an airplane, in the middle, or better? pretty unobtrusive when behind a door/wall. 2) Do I really have to prepare myself to doing the paper clip trick for the power supply? Any great resources for that? Thank you dear honorable Sierra owners. Behind a door/wall - no problem. What if there is a guest in the bedroom where the Sierra is, is it gonna be bothersome for the guest no matter how cool the temperature is? Thanks. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: jddebug on April 10, 2014, 03:19:40 AM 1) Is the Sierra pretty loud? Can it be left running in the guest room with the door closed without bothering anyone in the rest of a condo? If a guest is over and is to sleep in the guest room, is that thing gonna be too loud for him? How loud, a hair dryer, an airplane, in the middle, or better? pretty unobtrusive when behind a door/wall. 2) Do I really have to prepare myself to doing the paper clip trick for the power supply? Any great resources for that? Thank you dear honorable Sierra owners. Behind a door/wall - no problem. What if there is a guest in the bedroom where the Sierra is, is it gonna be bothersome for the guest no matter how cool the temperature is? Thanks. I'm in a cool environment here. They are very quiet as long as they are not hot. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: yuriygeorge on April 10, 2014, 03:41:36 AM Awesome, because with a Cointerra TerraMiner, it's like being in an airplane hangar.
P.S. I just received an e-mail that they are gonna send out shipping confirmation for tomorrow. Batch #2. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: QuiveringGibbage on April 10, 2014, 07:50:35 AM so was that message from QuiveringGibbage just a hoax? cause no one else had anything and now he/she's conveniently not replying. No, he bought it second hand.smells like a hashspy among us feeding us more false hope hmmm Yep, 2nd hand :) Sorry, didn't mean to stir people up. Was just excited to boast.. Cheers, QG Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on April 10, 2014, 10:13:33 PM 10 days down, 20 to go until hashfast fail at another attempt to deliver at another delayed date.
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on April 14, 2014, 12:22:16 PM Has anyone heard from hashfast lately? Or received any sign that batch 2 is or has been shipped yet?
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: SolarSilver on April 16, 2014, 05:51:40 AM Has anyone heard from hashfast lately? Or received any sign that batch 2 is or has been shipped yet? I got a notification from FedEx that 2 Sierra units are making it my way, which is not what I wanted, I wanted a refund Sigh... Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: solarion on April 16, 2014, 06:12:35 AM Sounds like hashfast. >:( What was your order #, if you don't mind saying?
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: SolarSilver on April 16, 2014, 07:42:26 AM Sounds like hashfast. >:( What was your order #, if you don't mind saying? #177x placed 20130910 paid back then: BTC 230 (USD 28000) Estimated revenue: BTC 16 Where is the refund I requested for? I guess it's in the same place where the MPP for the BBJets is? Note they dispatched the Sierra before they are sending out the BBJet upgrade kits Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: CryptKeeper on April 16, 2014, 10:05:42 AM Sounds like hashfast. >:( What was your order #, if you don't mind saying? #177x placed 20130910 paid back then: BTC 230 (USD 28000) Estimated revenue: BTC 16 Where is the refund I requested for? I guess it's in the same place where the MPP for the BBJets is? Note they dispatched the Sierra before they are sending out the BBJet upgrade kits Did you sign the refund agreement? Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: SolarSilver on April 16, 2014, 10:58:46 AM Did you sign the refund agreement? Yes, they did not want to proceed unless it was signed edit: oh sorry, I'm mixing up threads here, I signed the Bitmine refund agreement, not the Hashfast one https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=291141.msg6245300#msg6245300 Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: CryptKeeper on April 16, 2014, 12:34:58 PM Did you sign the refund agreement? Yes, they did not want to proceed unless it was signed That's bad! IMHO, you should decline acceptance of the sierras and insist on getting your refund. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: SolarSilver on April 16, 2014, 12:41:43 PM Did you sign the refund agreement? Yes, they did not want to proceed unless it was signed That's bad! IMHO, you should decline acceptance of the sierras and insist on getting your refund. Sorry, see my edited message, I did not sign the Hashfast refund form, I did sign with another (failed) ASIC vendor for a refund. I did email Hashfast for a refund and sent them a snail mail letter, but I'm not going to sign their restrictive refund form Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: solarion on April 16, 2014, 05:21:27 PM Then it seems like your next move is to refuse the shipment. They're counting on people just giving up. What a disgusting company.
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on April 16, 2014, 06:33:54 PM I suppose the silver lining to this is at least hashfast are actually doing something and getting some orders out. Even if their sending them to people who didn't want the sierra :-s
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: solarion on April 16, 2014, 07:36:20 PM Just means they're now mining with their updated products and are therefore done with the "old crap" sierras. Might as well ship them to the people who paid for them last year now that they're nearly worthless. Wonderful bunch of people.
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on April 16, 2014, 11:10:52 PM This is true.
What order number are you solarion? I think you have mentioned before ??? Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: solarion on April 17, 2014, 01:12:33 AM 1955. I've switched my primary residence since I ordered last friggin sept and have repeatedly emailed them updated info, but beyond an automated response they refuse to confirm the changes. Awesome service from a company I've sent the equivalent of $26k.
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on April 17, 2014, 10:46:23 PM Just seen what the marketing director of hashfast just wrote (Amy Abascal) What part of “now” don’t you understand? (Patience isn’t my strong suit.)
7:09pm - 17 Apr 14 Try being a hashfast customer then eh. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: solarion on April 18, 2014, 01:29:14 AM My order shipped today. Naturally it was shipped to the wrong address despite my numerous efforts to reach the criminals. ::)
Scamfast fails at every single point. Retarded ferrets could run a company better. All the same I'd like to put this whole mess in the rearview. I will never again place a pre-order, and I will never again deal with an amerikan bitcoin mining equipment manufacturer. Every single one has been run by corrupt psychopaths. There's nothing to stop these scumbags and their armies of lapdog lawyers from running these frauds in the us. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on April 18, 2014, 11:33:38 PM Well, order 177x and 1955 have been dispatched + 2211 (winnit) i wonder who will be next in the hashfast bingo.
Anyone with a higher order number than 1955 had any notice of their order being dispatched yet? I'm 2434, still waiting & only 11 days to go. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: solarion on April 19, 2014, 07:59:39 PM My initial impressions of the product(after only 18hrs or so):
It took me all of 15mins to get the sierra running and most of that was unpacking. It comes with everything necessary to get it online, save a control unit of some type. It hashes at advertised speed and even overclocks a bit(currently at 604Mhz). I haven't hooked power meters to it, because I've been too busy/lazy to hunt down a second one. Bottom line: I'm delighted with the product thus far...save for the hashfast tag on the front. If these guys weren't such buckets of slime I'd likely have ordered many more products from them. Too bad they chose to betray those that trusted them rather than build a relationship. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on April 19, 2014, 08:37:45 PM Solarion Can you tell us where you are in the world are you cause your delivery was pretty fast.
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: solarion on April 19, 2014, 09:14:25 PM Solarion Can you tell us where you are in the world are you cause your delivery was pretty fast. Fast because I paid for next day early am delivery. It was over $300 for shipping. Just more theft. In sept of last year it made sense. Now it looks retarded to pay that much for shipping. Not to mention the fact that the morons at ciaratech sent it to an old address. I had to contact fedex to have it held and drive 300 miles to retrieve it. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on April 19, 2014, 09:26:09 PM Solarion Can you tell us where you are in the world are you cause your delivery was pretty fast. Fast because I paid for next day early am delivery. It was over $300 for shipping. Just more theft. In sept of last year it made sense. Now it looks retarded to pay that much for shipping. Not to mention the fact that the morons at ciaratech sent it to an old address. I had to contact fedex to have it held and drive 300 miles to retrieve it. I have also paid for the express delivery but I'm in the UK. Like you i also thought it was a good idea at the time. I don't think mine will get to me next day tho, that's why i was curious as to where you are in the world. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: solarion on April 19, 2014, 11:32:02 PM East coast usa.
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: QuiveringGibbage on April 20, 2014, 01:53:10 AM Anyone thinking of selling their Sierra unit? I
I'll be interested to see what offers I get. Altho the market size is much more limited in Australia I think. I'll miss LARRY tho, was one of my best and easiest to run :~( Not too noisey as compared with my other miners. Hash fast, QG https://i.imgur.com/3q2Bb8E.jpg More here: http://imgur.com/a/mRbMZ#o7nT7Jv Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: jddebug on April 20, 2014, 03:15:16 AM Anyone thinking of selling their Sierra unit? I I'll be interested to see what offers I get. Altho the market size is much more limited in Australia I think. I'll miss LARRY tho, was one of my best and easiest to run :~( Not too noisey as compared with my other miners. Hash fast, QG https://i.imgur.com/3q2Bb8E.jpg More here: http://imgur.com/a/mRbMZ#o7nT7Jv Why are you selling? Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: QuiveringGibbage on April 20, 2014, 07:17:30 AM Why are you selling? I want this now... [Group Buy] 5.4 TH/s miner for $4,495, August delivery - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=575499.msg6278746#msg6278746 I want both, but we can't have everything we want :) QG Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: solarion on April 20, 2014, 12:03:27 PM August delivery? lol
You won't be fighting with me. All yours. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: solarion on April 21, 2014, 08:05:43 PM Now that I've had some time to kick the tires and ambient temps have risen dramatically here, it's pretty clear that the sierra needs some cooling help, particularly overclocked. I've obtained appropriate fasteners to attach 3x delta afb1212she 120mm fans. These I will add to the front of the unit to create a push pull airflow arrangement through the radiators. Forgive me if all this has been gone over previously, I haven't been attentive to threads dealing with actual operation of the sierra as I figured I'd never see one.
I'll post the results of this operation if anyone is interested. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: SolarSilver on April 21, 2014, 09:19:00 PM I'll post the results of this operation if anyone is interested. I've put the --hfa-fan at 100%, I'm getting temperatures of about 80 degrees Celcius at 604 MHz What numbers are you looking at, without the extra fans? Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: solarion on April 21, 2014, 09:59:25 PM 84c @ 604 mhz. Got the fans on and temps are 79c presently. I don't believe I modified fan operation with my .bat file, but I'll give that a whirl too. Ambient is 28c.
REALLY ticks me off that hashlast is operated by such scumbags. I really like the unit. Edit: well that doubled the volume. lol Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: QuiveringGibbage on April 21, 2014, 10:17:58 PM Code: cgminer version 4.2.3 - Started: [2014-04-12 21:14:20] fans at default, not sure what my ambient is atm QG Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: Legend21 on April 21, 2014, 10:20:51 PM My order 2992 was also batch 3 sierra.. I have ask for refund since 15 january, i send them 1000 mails about refund so they will really make a stupid mistake if they still sending the sierra , but im sure they know that im want a refund because i ask them too much and e-mail them 1000 times.
I just wait for my refund of 2992. I also will update here. i dont believe why you guys still wait for that rig, that is now nothin worth to mine... if i was you i should ask already for a refund.. my opinun then.. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: jddebug on April 21, 2014, 10:21:18 PM Now that I've had some time to kick the tires and ambient temps have risen dramatically here, it's pretty clear that the sierra needs some cooling help, particularly overclocked. I've obtained appropriate fasteners to attach 3x delta afb1212she 120mm fans. These I will add to the front of the unit to create a push pull airflow arrangement through the radiators. Forgive me if all this has been gone over previously, I haven't been attentive to threads dealing with actual operation of the sierra as I figured I'd never see one. I'll post the results of this operation if anyone is interested. They are supposed to run about 85C. Thats the sweet spot temperature. Absolutely no reason that I'm aware of to run them cooler. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: -ck on April 21, 2014, 10:28:27 PM Now that I've had some time to kick the tires and ambient temps have risen dramatically here, it's pretty clear that the sierra needs some cooling help, particularly overclocked. I've obtained appropriate fasteners to attach 3x delta afb1212she 120mm fans. These I will add to the front of the unit to create a push pull airflow arrangement through the radiators. Forgive me if all this has been gone over previously, I haven't been attentive to threads dealing with actual operation of the sierra as I figured I'd never see one. I'll post the results of this operation if anyone is interested. They are supposed to run about 85C. Thats the sweet spot temperature. Absolutely no reason that I'm aware of to run them cooler. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: solarion on April 21, 2014, 10:28:56 PM Now that I've had some time to kick the tires and ambient temps have risen dramatically here, it's pretty clear that the sierra needs some cooling help, particularly overclocked. I've obtained appropriate fasteners to attach 3x delta afb1212she 120mm fans. These I will add to the front of the unit to create a push pull airflow arrangement through the radiators. Forgive me if all this has been gone over previously, I haven't been attentive to threads dealing with actual operation of the sierra as I figured I'd never see one. I'll post the results of this operation if anyone is interested. They are supposed to run about 85C. Thats the sweet spot temperature. Absolutely no reason that I'm aware of to run them cooler. Hey jd, my understanding is that 85c is the point in which the sierra begins to throttle. That doesn's sound like a sweetspot. Heat kills electronics and 85c is hot. Not sure where the single temp reading is being generated from however. That's right. The code is designed to keep them 85~88 degrees. Any extra cooling does not improve their performance or help their longevity and only generates more noise and consumes more power. so they do not throttle at 85c? When you say "keep them at 85~88" does that imply that there's an autoclocking mechanism at work? Similar to your autoclocking code with Avalons? Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: -ck on April 21, 2014, 10:35:18 PM That's right. The code is designed to keep them 85~88 degrees. Any extra cooling does not improve their performance or help their longevity and only generates more noise and consumes more power. so they do not throttle at 85c? When you say "keep them at 85~88" does that imply that there's an autoclocking mechanism at work? Similar to your autoclocking code with Avalons? Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: solarion on April 21, 2014, 10:40:42 PM That's right. The code is designed to keep them 85~88 degrees. Any extra cooling does not improve their performance or help their longevity and only generates more noise and consumes more power. so they do not throttle at 85c? When you say "keep them at 85~88" does that imply that there's an autoclocking mechanism at work? Similar to your autoclocking code with Avalons? No there is heaps of headroom at 85 degrees. Only the fans adjust to keep them at that temperature. They only clock down at much higher temperatures. Thanks for clarifying. The fans are staying, I already bled to put them there. :D Hard to get used to seeing your equipment exceeding 80c as normal. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: aasl on April 22, 2014, 03:11:33 AM my order is in batch 4 (order number #35xx). I request for refund in the beginning of April (after HF said they will postpone the delivery for 3 months), and soon I received the mail asking me to fill in the refund information. To fasten the process speed, I chose BTC instead of bank wire transfer. However, after I send my refund particulars to HF, I lost contact with them. They didn't send me any acknowledgement nor telling me when I can receive the refund. I send them several mails and still no reply...
I wonder if anyone has received the refund yet? How long did the processing take? Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: Legend21 on April 22, 2014, 08:51:00 AM I think u can wait 2-3 months more, because i already ask since 15 january and is confirm by Hashfast, i didnt have to fill in a refund form, because they dont exist only for batch 1 customers they have made that form.
Im now waiting 80-90 days since my first request, and they still saying they processing like they receive the request. Bull shit. They dont do anything to speed up the process or anything. I am batch 2992, just imaging how long it will cost for people that have ask their refund after 15 january. I still waiting, they still said they are close to payout me but anyway they delay again. People there dont know eachother in the support team, its just a mess, they dont make notifications nothing. So everything u ask they must answer again and again.. Bunch of mess arround there. my order is in batch 4 (order number #35xx). I request for refund in the beginning of April (after HF said they will postpone the delivery for 3 months), and soon I received the mail asking me to fill in the refund information. To fasten the process speed, I chose BTC instead of bank wire transfer. However, after I send my refund particulars to HF, I lost contact with them. They didn't send me any acknowledgement nor telling me when I can receive the refund. I send them several mails and still no reply... I wonder if anyone has received the refund yet? How long did the processing take? Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: aasl on April 24, 2014, 03:42:19 AM I think u can wait 2-3 months more, because i already ask since 15 january and is confirm by Hashfast, i didnt have to fill in a refund form, because they dont exist only for batch 1 customers they have made that form. Im now waiting 80-90 days since my first request, and they still saying they processing like they receive the request. Bull shit. They dont do anything to speed up the process or anything. I am batch 2992, just imaging how long it will cost for people that have ask their refund after 15 january. I still waiting, they still said they are close to payout me but anyway they delay again. People there dont know eachother in the support team, its just a mess, they dont make notifications nothing. So everything u ask they must answer again and again.. Bunch of mess arround there. my order is in batch 4 (order number #35xx). I request for refund in the beginning of April (after HF said they will postpone the delivery for 3 months), and soon I received the mail asking me to fill in the refund information. To fasten the process speed, I chose BTC instead of bank wire transfer. However, after I send my refund particulars to HF, I lost contact with them. They didn't send me any acknowledgement nor telling me when I can receive the refund. I send them several mails and still no reply... I wonder if anyone has received the refund yet? How long did the processing take? 2-3 months to get the refund processed, such a "hash fast" processing speed... lucky for you, at least HF has replied to you :) Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: solarion on April 24, 2014, 03:46:48 AM 2-3 months to get the refund processed, such a "hash fast" processing speed... lucky for you, at least HF has replied to you :) They'll get more responsive with an AG's dress shoe up their ass. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on April 24, 2014, 08:03:37 PM stupid question coming up.
anyone received any notifications of batch 2 sierras being delivered? Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on April 24, 2014, 08:27:47 PM news update, all of batch 2 should be shipped by end of next week.
which is the 2nd of may resulting in another failed attempt of a delivery. il believe it when i see it Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: Legend21 on April 24, 2014, 09:47:20 PM So when they finally send my sierra batch 3 refund? wait now a month again?
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on April 24, 2014, 10:01:41 PM So when they finally send my sierra batch 3 refund? wait now a month again? there has been no mention of refunds as of yet, i think i read somewhere that a batch 2 customer is still waiting for theirs to come through since he requested for his refund in January. But my fingers are crossed for youTitle: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: aasl on April 25, 2014, 12:18:05 AM So when they finally send my sierra batch 3 refund? wait now a month again? there has been no mention of refunds as of yet, i think i read somewhere that a batch 2 customer is still waiting for theirs to come through since he requested for his refund in January. But my fingers are crossed for youI heard that after both sides sign the echosign refund form, there is a 30 day window for HF to process the refund. In my case, I signed the form in the beginning of April, and so far HF has not signed it. Maybe the waiting time should be "the date that HF sign" + 30 days, which may be equal to infinity. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: Legend21 on April 25, 2014, 05:42:44 PM No you dont have to fill in that form, People can see that form as a psygologic thing because they dont know how to ask their refund(You should send your request with your ordernumber only to refunds@hashfast.com), but the form was original made for batch 1 customers, and not for 2 ,3 or 4.
Look, i had order babyjet and sierra, they already have refund me the babyjet, but the sierra they havent refund jet. while the sierra was the first thing that i had order.., after that i order a babyjet. so the strange of all they send me a refund check with the lowest order and they hold on my first order that is worther 3 times then the babyjet order. And i havent fill the form in (That is no needable), they send you a check to your home adresses, that is my experience. So they pay me back the babyjet , but they still must refund me 6xxx.xx for the sierra batch 3. They promis me many times on e-mail that they are checking for me in which querie i am, and even i heard that i was end march, that the financal part of Hashfast say that i am next week querie, that means i got paid in the first 2 weeks on april at least. Bad enough this was all a lie, and i have so many conversations that they say that they send me soon as possible, and that they will do everything they do to refund me back, and now they dont react and dont answer anything. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: Legend21 on April 25, 2014, 05:53:09 PM Yes i know that, they still say they refund in the order they receive.
But i knew that they use that as a joke or excuse to delay everything. There is no payment schedule or querie, i knew it all along, but i already say to them many times. that i dont believe them, they should give me refund right a way instead let me waiting. See 31 - 3 - 2014 garanteed deliverytime is already pass for 25 days, i mean i ask also since 15 january, confirm by Erin from Hashfast, but now what make it sence? They said they refund weekly, but i know a lot of batch 2 still dont have receive their refund. I knew this al long, but i cant do nothing, i knew they lie. But what can you do if they ignore and lie, and fail promisming now already for 3-4 months.?? And what can u do about this, if even their support+phone is dead. They keep quet, and hunders of people wait for their refund and stilld ont have any clue or update when they get their money. We talking about minimal 6000 usd per customer. if we talk about the sierras.. per customer.. calculate and see how much damage they could make if they keep the money for so long So when they finally send my sierra batch 3 refund? wait now a month again? there has been no mention of refunds as of yet, i think i read somewhere that a batch 2 customer is still waiting for theirs to come through since he requested for his refund in January. But my fingers are crossed for youTitle: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: Legend21 on April 25, 2014, 05:57:28 PM But i will say nothing, this is not the tread for it.. good for your guys that u have your sierra's but now you know.. never ever pre-order again
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: solarion on April 25, 2014, 06:13:21 PM But i will say nothing, this is not the tread for it.. good for your guys that u have your sierra's but now you know.. never ever pre-order again FTFY Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: QuiveringGibbage on April 26, 2014, 04:26:56 AM would there be a way to push the 3 hashing boards in the Sierra to hash faster? say replacing the radiators with larger ones to cool further? some sort of home DIY hack job? anyone who actually have the unit tried this?
conman; would it be possible to push the Sierra units faster if further cooling were to be applied? Cheers, QG Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: -ck on April 26, 2014, 12:34:00 PM no
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: QuiveringGibbage on April 26, 2014, 01:03:25 PM ok
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: QuiveringGibbage on April 27, 2014, 02:30:20 AM is it possible to pull the 3 hashing board out of the sierra case and hash each board individually via usb? I'd have a look my self but the Sierra is locked away in the server cabinet. if anyone has already tried, love to hear about it first.
Cheers, QG Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: solarion on April 27, 2014, 04:50:40 AM don't see why not. looks like a ribbon cable connector.
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on April 28, 2014, 10:15:07 PM Out of batch 2, is anyone actually waiting for a sierra or is everyone requested for a refund?
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: Minor Miner on April 29, 2014, 02:50:37 AM Yes i know that, they still say they refund in the order they receive. But i knew that they use that as a joke or excuse to delay everything. There is no payment schedule or querie, i knew it all along, but i already say to them many times. that i dont believe them, they should give me refund right a way instead let me waiting. See 31 - 3 - 2014 garanteed deliverytime is already pass for 25 days, i mean i ask also since 15 january, confirm by Erin from Hashfast, but now what make it sence? They said they refund weekly, but i know a lot of batch 2 still dont have receive their refund. I knew this al long, but i cant do nothing, i knew they lie. But what can you do if they ignore and lie, and fail promisming now already for 3-4 months.?? And what can u do about this, if even their support+phone is dead. They keep quet, and hunders of people wait for their refund and stilld ont have any clue or update when they get their money. We talking about minimal 6000 usd per customer. if we talk about the sierras.. per customer.. calculate and see how much damage they could make if they keep the money for so long So when they finally send my sierra batch 3 refund? wait now a month again? there has been no mention of refunds as of yet, i think i read somewhere that a batch 2 customer is still waiting for theirs to come through since he requested for his refund in January. But my fingers are crossed for youPM entropy-uc as he is filing with other people that are owed money to force hash fast in bankruptcy. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: Legend21 on May 01, 2014, 06:17:19 PM Bro if u wait for your sierra, then u got garanteed lose, and fuck up. I ask already in January for my refund, and now take my money to mine and they still hold me on the line, while they already destroyed my time and investment.
To hold it longer make me only crazy. Out of batch 2, is anyone actually waiting for a sierra or is everyone requested for a refund? Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: aasl on May 02, 2014, 03:59:29 AM I finally got the reply from HF. They told me that they don't have a timeline for my refund, and thanked me for my patience (which I already lost) ...
they say they "must process refund requests in the order that they were received". It seems that they have got millions of refund requests which keep them delaying the processing for several months. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: aasl on May 04, 2014, 12:12:09 PM HF said they are busy processing the refund. I am curious on how many refund requests they have received (and whether they are actually processing the refund requests). If you have asked for a refund, can you please share with us the following info:
First two digits of your order number When you asked for refund (sign the EchoSign) When to receive the refund (if any...) I will start: Order#: 35xx EchoSign date: April 2, 2014 Receive refund: nil Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: QuiveringGibbage on May 04, 2014, 01:42:49 PM HF said they are busy processing the refund... meanwhile... HashFast Sierra Owners who actually have h/w... Destructicon of LARRY https://i.imgur.com/vL6lvg0.jpg More pics here: http://imgur.com/a/94wo7 Hash wild and Hash_Fast, QG Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: Gyrsur on May 04, 2014, 01:47:08 PM *listen*
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: aasl on May 04, 2014, 03:14:59 PM HF said they are busy processing the refund... meanwhile... HashFast Sierra Owners who actually have h/w... Destructicon of LARRY https://i.imgur.com/vL6lvg0.jpg More pics here: http://imgur.com/a/94wo7 Hash wild and Hash_Fast, QG why to take one board out? Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: jddebug on May 04, 2014, 06:42:00 PM HF said they are busy processing the refund... meanwhile... HashFast Sierra Owners who actually have h/w... Destructicon of LARRY https://i.imgur.com/vL6lvg0.jpg More pics here: http://imgur.com/a/94wo7 Hash wild and Hash_Fast, QG why to take one board out? I'm curious why one board is out too. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: QuiveringGibbage on May 05, 2014, 10:00:36 AM i am building individual shipping crates for each board so I can post them off easily. Shipping the lot at 18kg was heavy, bulky and expensive.
The plan is to have 3 smaller, more manageable hashing units. Made from left over mdf, the hashing board is secured to the crate frame along with the radiator and fan. You can pick up each unit with one hand and also continue to mine in the crate. https://i.imgur.com/WaP9Tgf.jpg more here: http://imgur.com/a/94wo7 Cheers, QG Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: aasl on May 08, 2014, 09:20:02 AM http://hashfast.com/hashfast-refocuses/
It seems that HF will not send out Sierra or process refund any more... Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on May 08, 2014, 11:32:53 PM http://hashfast.com/hashfast-refocuses/ It seems that HF will not send out Sierra or process refund any more... I can confirm they are shipping Sierra's just had my fedex email confirmation, it should be with me by Monday. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: toothpick on May 09, 2014, 05:50:39 AM i am building individual shipping crates for each board so I can post them off easily. Shipping the lot at 18kg was heavy, bulky and expensive. The plan is to have 3 smaller, more manageable hashing units. Made from left over mdf, the hashing board is secured to the crate frame along with the radiator and fan. You can pick up each unit with one hand and also continue to mine in the crate. https://i.imgur.com/WaP9Tgf.jpg more here: http://imgur.com/a/94wo7 Cheers, QG seems like a good idea. i may do this with my Sierra that was delivered today. it seems like they had a lot of problems out of the included power supplies since the 2nd gen doesn't come with any power supply and requires a 1200 watt instead of an 850. So, do you notice any improvements using that Antec 1200 watt? Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: aasl on May 09, 2014, 06:12:12 AM why ppl still want a 1.2T HF miner at the cost of 20+ btc or ~7K USD? There are a lot of 1T machines with price of around USD 2K only (e.g. http://www.lketc.com/engoods/show/580.aspx costs RMB 13800, and it is next-day shipping).
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: Legend21 on May 09, 2014, 10:19:08 AM Its that people have no choise, already order previous Jear. and now have no choise to acept this. its not their fault..
why ppl still want a 1.2T HF miner at the cost of 20+ btc or ~7K USD? There are a lot of 1T machines with price of around USD 2K only (e.g. http://www.lketc.com/engoods/show/580.aspx costs RMB 13800, and it is next-day shipping). Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: QuiveringGibbage on May 10, 2014, 10:04:17 AM meet ROBERTA and AL...
https://i.imgur.com/nzLzhTa.jpg more pics here: http://imgur.com/a/94wo7#18 cmginer stats at time of posting: Code: cgminer version 4.2.3 - Started: [2014-05-10 18:09:10] KEN is currently getting fitted for his shipping crate. in any case I only have the 2 USB cables to connect so KEN will need to piggy back of AL. If you plan on hashing your Sierra boards separately, you will need 2 more of these USB cables (left side in pic). 1 is provided (right side in pic) with the Sierra unit. https://i.imgur.com/8wvP3db.jpg?1 seems like a good idea. i may do this with my Sierra that was delivered today. it seems like they had a lot of problems out of the included power supplies since the 2nd gen doesn't come with any power supply and requires a 1200 watt instead of an 850. So, do you notice any improvements using that Antec 1200 watt? I did not notice any better power performance running on different PSU but I wasn't looking out for it. I do not know why the 2 X-850 PSUs that came with the Sierra are not working with the boards. I believe the PSUs are fine but just can't get the boards to work with them. On a slave board it works fine, but if I connect to a master board I can an error in cgminer (can't remember exact error).Cheers, QG Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: QuiveringGibbage on May 11, 2014, 12:50:17 PM welcome to the party KEN, now stop showing off how much you can hash by your self...
Code: cgminer version 4.2.3 - Started: [2014-05-11 19:42:19] pulling 534w at the wall (240v). https://i.imgur.com/VabVpUb.jpg more pics of KEN by him self here: http://imgur.com/a/94wo7#22 Hash wild, hash_fast!! QG Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: aasl on May 12, 2014, 02:25:21 PM OMG. Hashfast is "as poor as church mice"....
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/embattled-ceo-of-bitcoin-miner-firm-we-are-as-poor-as-church-mice/ Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: solarion on May 12, 2014, 02:30:46 PM Poor hashfast. :'(
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: fthisforum on May 12, 2014, 08:08:03 PM hey guys. i'm trying to get my sierra to run on windows 7. i'm having a hard time. for some reason windows isn't able to install driver. all it shows is M1 Module. when i run cgminer i get the following message.
see README.txt file included for help hashfast detect (5:1) fail to initialise (incorrect device?) Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: solarion on May 12, 2014, 08:25:09 PM cgminer + winblowz + usb asic = zadig. Are you using zadig?
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: QuiveringGibbage on May 12, 2014, 09:20:40 PM so i've started tuning each board's Clock speed and the results are somewhat surprising:
My original setting and hash rate with the Sierra was clocked at 604MHz hashing a total of 1.3THs (~433GHs was expected from each board) Now I am hashing each of the 3 boards individually with it's own USB cable: Code: 0: HFB KEN : 700MHz 85C 81% 0.79V | 725.4G / 860.0Gh/s WU: 12021.7/m A: 675079 R: 437 HW: 311 Yes, that's a single Sierra board (aka BabyJet) hashing at over 800GHs (wall measured to be ~610w for this setting). So my total hashing speed went from 1.3ths to ~1.7THs. I am still in the early stages of tuning cgminer for the best hashing rates and I need to repeat these test results. But looks very promising to hash those board individually. Anyone else planning on hashing their boards individually? I'd love to compare results. Pics can be found here: http://imgur.com/a/94wo7 Cheers, QG PS: Units are for sale (located in Sydney, Australia). Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: MrTeal on May 12, 2014, 09:31:07 PM so i've started tuning each board's Clock speed and the results are somewhat surprising: cgminer has issues with reported speeds, so the results are inaccurate there. Each ASIC with all the cores enabled can do 768 Bitcoin hashes per clock, so if you are 700MHz your absolute maximum hashrate is 538GH/s. My original setting and hash rate with the Sierra was clocked at 604MHz hashing a total of 1.3THs (~433GHs was expected from each board) Now I am hashing each of the 3 boards individually with it's own USB cable: Code: 0: HFB KEN : 700MHz 85C 81% 0.79V | 725.4G / 860.0Gh/s WU: 12021.7/m A: 675079 R: 437 HW: 311 Yes, that's a single Sierra board (aka BabyJet) hashing at over 800GHs (wall measured to be ~610w for this setting). So my total hashing speed went from 1.3ths to ~1.7THs. I am still in the early stages of tuning cgminer for the best hashing rates and I need to repeat these test results. But looks very promising to hash those board individually. Anyone else planning on hashing their boards individually? I'd love to compare results. Pics can be found here: http://imgur.com/a/94wo7 Cheers, QG PS: Units are for sale (located in Sydney, Australia). Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: QuiveringGibbage on May 12, 2014, 09:40:06 PM cgminer has issues with reported speeds, so the results are inaccurate there. Each ASIC with all the cores enabled can do 768 Bitcoin hashes per clock, so if you are 700MHz your absolute maximum hashrate is 538GH/s. i c i c.. as I did try the 700MHz again overnight to try to get KEN up to 800+GHs and yeah it only hashed around 500GHs. Will need more testing and will display results.I did get up to a total of 1.5ths with the pool when all 3 boards were hashing at the same time: Code: [19:37:05] <+QG> .w larry Cheers, QG Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: aasl on May 13, 2014, 09:23:40 AM another not so good news on HF:
http://www.coindesk.com/hashfast-cuts-50-of-staff-denies-bankruptcy-rumors/ Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: fthisforum on May 13, 2014, 10:16:21 PM cgminer + winblowz + usb asic = zadig. Are you using zadig? thanks! got it working. that did the trick. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on May 15, 2014, 09:23:41 PM so I have received my sierra but at least once or twice a day it zombies ??? and doesn't kick back in until I restart cgminer
does anyone know why this happens? Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: -ck on May 15, 2014, 09:29:42 PM so I have received my sierra but at least once or twice a day it zombies ??? and doesn't kick back in until I restart cgminer Are you overclocking it (too much)?does anyone know why this happens? Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on May 15, 2014, 10:24:12 PM so I have received my sierra but at least once or twice a day it zombies ??? and doesn't kick back in until I restart cgminer Are you overclocking it (too much)?does anyone know why this happens? clock 590, current hashrate of 1.22TH/s, temp 77'c 0.79v and i have to restart cgminer twice, first time it just hangs then second time it kicks in straight away Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: -ck on May 15, 2014, 10:25:46 PM so I have received my sierra but at least once or twice a day it zombies ??? and doesn't kick back in until I restart cgminer Are you overclocking it (too much)?does anyone know why this happens? clock 590, current hashrate of 1.22TH/s, temp 77'c 0.79v Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on May 15, 2014, 10:28:35 PM so I have received my sierra but at least once or twice a day it zombies ??? and doesn't kick back in until I restart cgminer Are you overclocking it (too much)?does anyone know why this happens? clock 590, current hashrate of 1.22TH/s, temp 77'c 0.79v if i remove --hfa-hash-clock 590 will it clock at its normal clock rate (550) only reason why i over clocked it is cause it barely passes 1TH/s without overclocking Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: -ck on May 15, 2014, 10:30:07 PM if i remove --hfa-hash-clock 590 will it clock at its normal clock rate (550) only reason why i over clocked it is cause it barely passes 1TH/s without overclocking Yes I understand why people overclock... but not all hardware is created equal and it's called overclocking for a reason.Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on May 15, 2014, 10:31:47 PM if i remove --hfa-hash-clock 590 will it clock at its normal clock rate (550) only reason why i over clocked it is cause it barely passes 1TH/s without overclocking Yes I understand why people overclock... but not all hardware is created equal and it's called overclocking for a reason.Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: solarion on May 15, 2014, 10:34:40 PM In a perfect world yes. It's not ck's fault though.
Are you seeing squelching messages in the cgminer output? Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on May 15, 2014, 10:40:27 PM In a perfect world yes. It's not ck's fault though. i didn't say it was ck's fault, im just asking if there's a solution to this problem if anyone else has come across it as well.Are you seeing squelching messages in the cgminer output? I have been told to use a program called cgwatcher to monitor cgminer & if it zombies it will auto restart cgminer. haven't tested that theory yet, but before i do i thought i would ask if there was any other solution. When you say squelching messages, what do you mean? i think the only message i have seen is something to do with no response from head then it say's zombie, sorry i didn't really pay much attention, was just concerned the sierra had knocked off & i rapidly restarted everything to get it back up and running Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on May 15, 2014, 11:02:53 PM ok, this is what cgminer says
HFS 0: Failed to reset after write failure, disabling HFS 0 failure, disabling! HFS 0: Failed to get data associated with header USB init, open device failed, err -12, you need to install a WinUSB driver for - HFA device 2:2-i1 See README.txt file included for help hashfast detect (2:2) failed to initialise (incorrect device?) has anyone come across this before? Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: solarion on May 15, 2014, 11:07:34 PM In a perfect world yes. It's not ck's fault though. Are you seeing squelching messages in the cgminer output? i didn't say it was ck's fault, im just asking if there's a solution to this problem if anyone else has come across it as well. I have been told to use a program called cgwatcher to monitor cgminer & if it zombies it will auto restart cgminer. haven't tested that theory yet, but before i do i thought i would ask if there was any other solution. When you say squelching messages, what do you mean? i think the only message i have seen is something to do with no response from head then it say's zombie, sorry i didn't really pay much attention, was just concerned the sierra had knocked off & i rapidly restarted everything to get it back up and running It seems that when the miner is pushed too far, specific cores are "squelched". At least that is the message that cgminer reports. I've not seen one in some while now. Mine is running comfortably at 604 and has been for a few weeks averaging 1.261Th during that time. I've converted to a .conf file, but the original .bat file simply had this preceding pool information: "cgminer.exe --hfa-hash-clock 604 --hfa-fan 85" Your temps seem to be under control, so it seems like you just got a bit of a dud. Edit: windows + cgminer requires zadig. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on May 15, 2014, 11:18:24 PM In a perfect world yes. It's not ck's fault though. Are you seeing squelching messages in the cgminer output? i didn't say it was ck's fault, im just asking if there's a solution to this problem if anyone else has come across it as well. I have been told to use a program called cgwatcher to monitor cgminer & if it zombies it will auto restart cgminer. haven't tested that theory yet, but before i do i thought i would ask if there was any other solution. When you say squelching messages, what do you mean? i think the only message i have seen is something to do with no response from head then it say's zombie, sorry i didn't really pay much attention, was just concerned the sierra had knocked off & i rapidly restarted everything to get it back up and running It seems that when the miner is pushed too far, specific cores are "squelched". At least that is the message that cgminer reports. I've not seen one in some while now. Mine is running comfortably at 604 and has been for a few weeks averaging 1.261Th during that time. I've converted to a .conf file, but the original .bat file simply had this preceding pool information: "cgminer.exe --hfa-hash-clock 604 --hfa-fan 85" Your temps seem to be under control, so it seems like you just got a bit of a dud. ok thank you for your help, do you think running it in linux will make a difference? and il try the .conf file setup as well. I don't know why i expected any different from hashfast, waited this long and got a dud lol il also test each board to see if i can locate it down to one board that seems to be causing the issue. again, thanks for the info, at least now i know its something to do with the sierra Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: QuiveringGibbage on May 15, 2014, 11:20:24 PM but in reality i shouldn't have to overclock as it should be hashing at 1.2 TH/s minimum? in reality, BTC H/w manufacturers tent to estimate the product's hashing speeds and power consumptions. Real world figures can differ dramatically. My Sierra was stable on 604Mhz and hashing ~1.3THs, but once I took it apart. I could get it to about 1.4THs. Each board behaves differently. See http://imgur.com/a/94wo7#28 for my last screen shot of cgminer and pics of my Sierra. You will notice different clock speed for each board in the Sierra. Here's a snap shot of cgminer at the time of posting: Code: cgminer version 4.3.3 - Started: [2014-05-15 17:29:56] While i was tuning the boards to find their max. stable hashing rate, cgminer occasionally gets ZOMBIEs and doesn't recover. But once I lay off the OCing, they can hash stable and if one should fail, cgminer tents to be able to recover it automatically after 60 secs of 0 share submitted. Hash wild and Hash Fast, QG Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: kevin911 on May 15, 2014, 11:27:28 PM but in reality i shouldn't have to overclock as it should be hashing at 1.2 TH/s minimum? While i was tuning the boards to find their max. stable hashing rate, cgminer occasionally gets ZOMBIEs and doesn't recover. But once I lay off the OCing, they can hash stable and if one should fail, cgminer tents to be able to recover it automatically after 60 secs of 0 share submitted. Interesting to know, i don't think i waited 60 seconds to find out if it would auto kick in. also, are you running cgminer in linux? if so, which one would you recommend or doesn't it really matter? also, is the sierra being damaged in anyway by setting the clock rate to 590? as i thought i read somewhere 612 was a sweet spot, i didn't fancy pushing it that far. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: aasl on May 16, 2014, 04:28:05 AM HF seems to submit a bankrupt request:
http://ia902509.us.archive.org/13/items/gov.uscourts.canb.522575/gov.uscourts.canb.522575.1.0.pdf Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: -ck on May 16, 2014, 04:31:17 AM HF seems to submit a bankrupt request: You read it wrong. That's someone else demanding HF bankrupts.http://ia902509.us.archive.org/13/items/gov.uscourts.canb.522575/gov.uscourts.canb.522575.1.0.pdf Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: Minor Miner on May 16, 2014, 04:39:16 AM HF seems to submit a bankrupt request: You read it wrong. That's someone else demanding HF bankrupts.http://ia902509.us.archive.org/13/items/gov.uscourts.canb.522575/gov.uscourts.canb.522575.1.0.pdf Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: aasl on May 16, 2014, 04:53:38 AM HF seems to submit a bankrupt request: You read it wrong. That's someone else demanding HF bankrupts.http://ia902509.us.archive.org/13/items/gov.uscourts.canb.522575/gov.uscourts.canb.522575.1.0.pdf oh... my fault... Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: QuiveringGibbage on May 16, 2014, 09:26:19 AM Interesting to know, i don't think i waited 60 seconds to find out if it would auto kick in. also, are you running cgminer in linux? if so, which one would you recommend or doesn't it really matter? also, is the sierra being damaged in anyway by setting the clock rate to 590? as i thought i read somewhere 612 was a sweet spot, i didn't fancy pushing it that far. sweet spot differs from chip to chip. i'm not a chip engineer but i presume you could damage any chip if you pumped too much power through it. but i believe ck said he'd spent a lot of time on the cgminer code for HashFast. so i'd say it'd be some sort of fail safe function. ck would have to comment, i haven't read his code. iirc he mentioned 850 was the limit what i do know from practical experience is that if you hash with too high of a clock rate, the ASIC chip tends to stop hashing and cgminer will automatically lower the MHz after 60sec of no share received from the device. Cheers, QG Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: padrino on June 12, 2014, 02:29:51 PM Looking to purchase a Sierra, if anyone has one they want to part with please write..
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: digitizedcurrency2010 on October 10, 2014, 02:19:58 PM The Ming Rig is crashing . Using Hashfast SIERA with cgminer 3.12.0. It was working fine and in last 5 days have been having the issue below. As Suggested on the thread I have tried the parameters but with little luck. Any Ideas would be appreciated.
cgminer version 3.12.0 - Started: [2014-10-10 10:13:54] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (5s):245.2G (avg):370.2Gh/s | A:4608 R:0 HW:0 WU:5141.9/m ST: 2 SS: 0 NB: 1 LW: 5701 GF: 0 RF: 0 Connected to stratum.mining.eligius.st diff 128 with stratum as user XX Block: 1ad0c4c6... Diff:35G Started: [10:13:54] Best share: 3.43K ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pool management settings Display options Quit HFS 0: max104C 0.82V | ZOMBIE/370.2Gh/s | A:4608 R:0 HW:0 WU:5141.9/m ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2014-10-10 10:14:18] Accepted 7bc81b54 Diff 529/128 HFS 0 [2014-10-10 10:14:19] Accepted 5f74e674 Diff 687/128 HFS 0 [2014-10-10 10:14:19] Accepted 01d09177 Diff 141/128 HFS 0 [2014-10-10 10:14:21] Accepted 012d8f4e Diff 217/128 HFS 0 [2014-10-10 10:14:22] Accepted ebe5db27 Diff 278/128 HFS 0 [2014-10-10 10:14:22] Accepted 010ac52b Diff 246/128 HFS 0 [2014-10-10 10:14:23] Accepted b3c11428 Diff 365/128 HFS 0 [2014-10-10 10:14:25] Accepted 01a1d731 Diff 157/128 HFS 0 [2014-10-10 10:14:26] Accepted 55b5b7a4 Diff 765/128 HFS 0 [2014-10-10 10:14:31] Accepted 0130d63b Diff 215/128 HFS 0 [2014-10-10 10:14:33] Accepted b57ade24 Diff 361/128 HFS 0 [2014-10-10 10:14:37] Accepted 574a4f1d Diff 751/128 HFS 0 [2014-10-10 10:14:40] Accepted a2cc1e3b Diff 403/128 HFS 0 [2014-10-10 10:14:42] Accepted e422166f Diff 287/128 HFS 0 [2014-10-10 10:14:42] Accepted d0271d48 Diff 315/128 HFS 0 [2014-10-10 10:14:59] Accepted 01e369ce Diff 136/128 HFS 0 [2014-10-10 10:15:01] HFS 0: Hit overheat temp, throttling! [2014-10-10 10:15:01] Accepted 13205ba0 Diff 3.43K/128 HFS 0 [2014-10-10 10:15:02] Accepted 5d433a9a Diff 703/128 HFS 0 [2014-10-10 10:15:02] Accepted 4eac85e5 Diff 833/128 HFS 0 [2014-10-10 10:15:05] Accepted 45d0f23d Diff 939/128 HFS 0 [2014-10-10 10:15:05] Accepted 018ec251 Diff 164/128 HFS 0 [2014-10-10 10:15:05] Accepted 01ff1c46 Diff 128/128 HFS 0 [2014-10-10 10:15:13] Accepted 01477790 Diff 200/128 HFS 0 [2014-10-10 10:15:14] Accepted 01157037 Diff 236/128 HFS 0 [2014-10-10 10:15:15] Accepted 01563dab Diff 191/128 HFS 0 [2014-10-10 10:15:16] HFS 0 Thermal overload tripped! Resetting device [2014-10-10 10:15:16] HFS 0: OP_USB_INIT: Tossing packet, valid but unexpected type 134 [2014-10-10 10:15:16] HFS 0: OP_USB_INIT: Tossing packet, valid but unexpected type 134 [2014-10-10 10:15:16] HFS 0 HFGetHeader usb read err:(-9) LIBUSB_ERROR_PIPE [2014-10-10 10:15:16] HFS 0 Failed to reset device, killing off thread to allow re-hotplug [2014-10-10 10:15:16] HFS 0: device disappeared, disabling [2014-10-10 10:15:16] HFS 0 failure, disabling! [2014-10-10 10:15:17] Hashfast detect (1:2) failed to initialise (incorrect device?) Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: Micky25 on October 10, 2014, 05:03:08 PM I would downclock or put the rig in a cooler place - and use a newer version of cgminer.
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: jddebug on October 10, 2014, 06:37:57 PM Looks like your water cooling block is either out of fluid or the pump has failed. I have had a number of them fail. Replacement isn't very difficult but the replacement is probably not worth buying as the Sierra is unlikely to make enough additional to cover the cost.
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: Micky25 on October 10, 2014, 07:16:09 PM additionally its probably not a sierra, but a babyjet.
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: digitizedcurrency2010 on October 11, 2014, 04:02:08 AM Looks like your water cooling block is either out of fluid or the pump has failed. I have had a number of them fail. Replacement isn't very difficult but the replacement is probably not worth buying as the Sierra is unlikely to make enough additional to cover the cost. Thanks alot. Thats was the problem One of the coolers out of the 3 was busted. I was able to determine as one of the pipes were warmer than the others. I will try to setup the third one sepratly. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: MrTeal on October 11, 2014, 04:11:08 AM I just replace an H80i on a Habanero that was thermally tripping tonight, and when I opened it up I was a little surprised to find the block was all fouled up.
http://i58.tinypic.com/2rcmyw7.jpg I'm not sure the cause, but given the number of units I've seen fail I wouldn't be surprised if there were a bunch of these that need to be replaced soon. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: Minor Miner on October 16, 2014, 05:38:22 AM That is a little surprising. wonder why it would happen so quickly. Wrong coolant? Fearful of what all those crappy running cointerras look like inside as I have zero desire to tear each underperformer apart.
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: numnutz2009 on October 29, 2014, 03:32:24 PM the guy i purchased my boards from said he thinks hf posted a firmware update for the boards but has since removed it and i cant find it anywhere....does ne one happen to have the update still?? can u send it my way in a pm??
also to people running their cards outside of the cases....are you looking to sell your hf case?? if so i might be interested in purchasing one or 2 if the price is right. i might even want some of those wooden ones or the plans to make them so i can do it myself if its too pricey to have them pre made. pm me if interested. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: numnutz2009 on November 06, 2014, 04:31:18 PM So does anyone have the v0.8.0 yoli board firmware and or bootloader update?? I cant update the firmware without updating the bootloader but i cant use the hashfast app with linux to install it even after fixing the issues with pyusb and python.....i have spent days trying to build everything and im getting annoyed at the fact that their instructions leave so much information out and that they could have easily posted the hex files already made for the update alongside the non compiled files but they didnt....it makes no damn sense to me!
Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: h@shKraker on November 16, 2014, 05:37:21 PM I just acquired a couple of Sierra units that are Rev 2.3 boards and am having a problem getting my Ubuntu Linux to see them when I plug their USB cables into my Linux box. With Habanero boards I can see the boards get recognized in dmesg but nothing happens with the Sierra boards. Has anyone else experienced this and if so what was yrou solution? Also, when I run sudo ./cgminer -n the three boards in the Sierra are not recognized by cgminer (of course the habaneros are). On a related not I'm using the latest git pull of cgminer. Also, jut to be thorough I pressed the on-board power button to make sure the boards had power and the fans on the coolers were spinning (holy crap these things are loud).
H@shKraker Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: h@shKraker on November 16, 2014, 07:45:11 PM I just had a thought .... are the Sierra units U*SB 2 or USB3? I have them plugged into a USB2 hub right now. If they're USB3 that's no bueno ...
H@shKraker Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: jddebug on November 16, 2014, 08:10:37 PM I just acquired a couple of Sierra units that are Rev 2.3 boards and am having a problem getting my Ubuntu Linux to see them when I plug their USB cables into my Linux box. With Habanero boards I can see the boards get recognized in dmesg but nothing happens with the Sierra boards. Has anyone else experienced this and if so what was yrou solution? Also, when I run sudo ./cgminer -n the three boards in the Sierra are not recognized by cgminer (of course the habaneros are). On a related not I'm using the latest git pull of cgminer. Also, jut to be thorough I pressed the on-board power button to make sure the boards had power and the fans on the coolers were spinning (holy crap these things are loud). H@shKraker Maybe you have the board to usb connector on backwards? Red wire goes towards the black ribbon cable connector. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: h@shKraker on November 19, 2014, 05:33:20 AM Nope ... red wire on the USB header is correct. Me thinks I need to try my USB3 hub plugged into my USB3 port on me's 'puter ....
H@shKraker Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: TvaiX on November 21, 2014, 09:18:06 PM Hello,
I have problem after playing around with one of cards: [2014-11-20 01:36:59] Started cgminer 4.7.0 [2014-11-20 01:37:00] HFA: Found device with name 4f577ab79ee6z [2014-11-20 01:37:00] Probing for an alive pool [2014-11-20 01:37:00] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 32 [2014-11-20 01:37:01] Network diff set to 40.3G [2014-11-20 01:37:03] ERR: Asked to memcpy 0 bytes from usbutils.c _usb_read():3197 [2014-11-20 01:37:03] HFA : OP_USB_INIT failed! Operation status 17 (ASIC core power fault) [2014-11-20 01:37:03] HFA : OP_USB_INIT: Quadrant 3 (of 4) regulator failure [2014-11-20 01:37:06] API running in UNRESTRICTED read access mode on port 4028 (9) After that it goes in loop and trying to start. What is Quadrant and regulator? Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: MrTeal on November 21, 2014, 09:43:15 PM Hello, Each of the four dies is a quadrant. The regulator is what feeds low voltage power to the chip. Quadrant 3 would be the one diagonally across from the side with the USB header.I have problem after playing around with one of cards: [2014-11-20 01:36:59] Started cgminer 4.7.0 [2014-11-20 01:37:00] HFA: Found device with name 4f577ab79ee6z [2014-11-20 01:37:00] Probing for an alive pool [2014-11-20 01:37:00] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 32 [2014-11-20 01:37:01] Network diff set to 40.3G [2014-11-20 01:37:03] ERR: Asked to memcpy 0 bytes from usbutils.c _usb_read():3197 [2014-11-20 01:37:03] HFA : OP_USB_INIT failed! Operation status 17 (ASIC core power fault) [2014-11-20 01:37:03] HFA : OP_USB_INIT: Quadrant 3 (of 4) regulator failure [2014-11-20 01:37:06] API running in UNRESTRICTED read access mode on port 4028 (9) After that it goes in loop and trying to start. What is Quadrant and regulator? Sounds like your board has a fault on it. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: TvaiX on November 21, 2014, 10:28:39 PM Hello, Each of the four dies is a quadrant. The regulator is what feeds low voltage power to the chip. Quadrant 3 would be the one diagonally across from the side with the USB header.I have problem after playing around with one of cards: [2014-11-20 01:36:59] Started cgminer 4.7.0 [2014-11-20 01:37:00] HFA: Found device with name 4f577ab79ee6z [2014-11-20 01:37:00] Probing for an alive pool [2014-11-20 01:37:00] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 32 [2014-11-20 01:37:01] Network diff set to 40.3G [2014-11-20 01:37:03] ERR: Asked to memcpy 0 bytes from usbutils.c _usb_read():3197 [2014-11-20 01:37:03] HFA : OP_USB_INIT failed! Operation status 17 (ASIC core power fault) [2014-11-20 01:37:03] HFA : OP_USB_INIT: Quadrant 3 (of 4) regulator failure [2014-11-20 01:37:06] API running in UNRESTRICTED read access mode on port 4028 (9) After that it goes in loop and trying to start. What is Quadrant and regulator? Sounds like your board has a fault on it. http://www.swissapp.mobi/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/mqdefault5.jpg In picture quadrant 3, it is high diagonally on left, closest to USB header? Will check regulators, it can be faulty capacitor for that quadrant maybe too? It is possible to get diagram for Hashfast boards? ;) I had Antminer s1 with broken capacitor and regulator, i fixed regulator and worked ok without capacitor... :) Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: h@shKraker on November 22, 2014, 02:26:51 AM Hey Mr. Teal / et. al.,
I happen to be in possession of a number of Sierra machines of recent purchase. They arrived, I spun up their PSUs by using the power button on the PSU and nothing happened. So ... I decided to press one of the buttons on each of the three boards in the case and viola the CoolT fans started spinning adn I felt certain there was 12VDC on the board. It seemd to me thsi should have caused ther USB device to spin up as well. I felt good about this part. So, I followed the "compiling cgminer for HashFast stuff" guide at http://hashfast.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Compiling-CG-Miner-to-show-multiple-die-temps.pdf and thought I was about to have me some mining success. This was not the case. It seems cgminer cannot see the sierra boards (each is USB connected and not chained). I have tried to connect the Sierra to a USB3 hub and a USB2 hub and I get the same outcome ... nothing shows up in dmesg (oh yea ... I'm running Ubuntu 14.04LTS on said MiniITX / shuttle machine) *AND* thus nothing gets seen by cgminer. I am using a MininItx form-factor PC. The wierd part of all of this is tha my BFL SC devices adn Jalos get seen and my BE USB devices get seen. Could it be that I'm getting borked by said MiniItx machine? If I followed the HashFast guide set-by-step shouldn't I see predictable outcome / the outcome HashFast described? Any amount of your wisdom is HUGELY appreciated. H@shKraker Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: MrTeal on November 22, 2014, 03:18:19 AM In picture quadrant 3, it is high diagonally on left, closest to USB header? Will check regulators, it can be faulty capacitor for that quadrant maybe too? Bottom right. As to what the problem could be, hard to say. I don't think there's public schematics but I could be wrong.It is possible to get diagram for Hashfast boards? ;) I had Antminer s1 with broken capacitor and regulator, i fixed regulator and worked ok without capacitor... :) Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: MrTeal on November 22, 2014, 03:21:31 AM Hey Mr. Teal / et. al., If you type lsusb, do you see the devices?I happen to be in possession of a number of Sierra machines of recent purchase. They arrived, I spun up their PSUs by using the power button on the PSU and nothing happened. So ... I decided to press one of the buttons on each of the three boards in the case and viola the CoolT fans started spinning adn I felt certain there was 12VDC on the board. It seemd to me thsi should have caused ther USB device to spin up as well. I felt good about this part. So, I followed the "compiling cgminer for HashFast stuff" guide at http://hashfast.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Compiling-CG-Miner-to-show-multiple-die-temps.pdf and thought I was about to have me some mining success. This was not the case. It seems cgminer cannot see the sierra boards (each is USB connected and not chained). I have tried to connect the Sierra to a USB3 hub and a USB2 hub and I get the same outcome ... nothing shows up in dmesg (oh yea ... I'm running Ubuntu 14.04LTS on said MiniITX / shuttle machine) *AND* thus nothing gets seen by cgminer. I am using a MininItx form-factor PC. The wierd part of all of this is tha my BFL SC devices adn Jalos get seen and my BE USB devices get seen. Could it be that I'm getting borked by said MiniItx machine? If I followed the HashFast guide set-by-step shouldn't I see predictable outcome / the outcome HashFast described? Any amount of your wisdom is HUGELY appreciated. H@shKraker Also, you might want to try with a vanilla version of cgminer first just to ensure it's not an issue with the build of cgminer. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: jddebug on November 22, 2014, 04:24:02 AM Hello, Each of the four dies is a quadrant. The regulator is what feeds low voltage power to the chip. Quadrant 3 would be the one diagonally across from the side with the USB header.I have problem after playing around with one of cards: [2014-11-20 01:36:59] Started cgminer 4.7.0 [2014-11-20 01:37:00] HFA: Found device with name 4f577ab79ee6z [2014-11-20 01:37:00] Probing for an alive pool [2014-11-20 01:37:00] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 32 [2014-11-20 01:37:01] Network diff set to 40.3G [2014-11-20 01:37:03] ERR: Asked to memcpy 0 bytes from usbutils.c _usb_read():3197 [2014-11-20 01:37:03] HFA : OP_USB_INIT failed! Operation status 17 (ASIC core power fault) [2014-11-20 01:37:03] HFA : OP_USB_INIT: Quadrant 3 (of 4) regulator failure [2014-11-20 01:37:06] API running in UNRESTRICTED read access mode on port 4028 (9) After that it goes in loop and trying to start. What is Quadrant and regulator? Sounds like your board has a fault on it. http://www.swissapp.mobi/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/mqdefault5.jpg In picture quadrant 3, it is high diagonally on left, closest to USB header? Will check regulators, it can be faulty capacitor for that quadrant maybe too? It is possible to get diagram for Hashfast boards? ;) I had Antminer s1 with broken capacitor and regulator, i fixed regulator and worked ok without capacitor... :) If you figure it out or find a way to bypass that die or something, please share. I have the same issue with several cards. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: MrTeal on November 22, 2014, 04:26:20 AM Hello, Each of the four dies is a quadrant. The regulator is what feeds low voltage power to the chip. Quadrant 3 would be the one diagonally across from the side with the USB header.I have problem after playing around with one of cards: [2014-11-20 01:36:59] Started cgminer 4.7.0 [2014-11-20 01:37:00] HFA: Found device with name 4f577ab79ee6z [2014-11-20 01:37:00] Probing for an alive pool [2014-11-20 01:37:00] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 32 [2014-11-20 01:37:01] Network diff set to 40.3G [2014-11-20 01:37:03] ERR: Asked to memcpy 0 bytes from usbutils.c _usb_read():3197 [2014-11-20 01:37:03] HFA : OP_USB_INIT failed! Operation status 17 (ASIC core power fault) [2014-11-20 01:37:03] HFA : OP_USB_INIT: Quadrant 3 (of 4) regulator failure [2014-11-20 01:37:06] API running in UNRESTRICTED read access mode on port 4028 (9) After that it goes in loop and trying to start. What is Quadrant and regulator? Sounds like your board has a fault on it. http://www.swissapp.mobi/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/mqdefault5.jpg In picture quadrant 3, it is high diagonally on left, closest to USB header? Will check regulators, it can be faulty capacitor for that quadrant maybe too? It is possible to get diagram for Hashfast boards? ;) I had Antminer s1 with broken capacitor and regulator, i fixed regulator and worked ok without capacitor... :) If you figure it out or find a way to bypass that die or something, please share. I have the same issue with several cards. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: TvaiX on November 22, 2014, 12:27:24 PM Hello, Each of the four dies is a quadrant. The regulator is what feeds low voltage power to the chip. Quadrant 3 would be the one diagonally across from the side with the USB header.I have problem after playing around with one of cards: [2014-11-20 01:36:59] Started cgminer 4.7.0 [2014-11-20 01:37:00] HFA: Found device with name 4f577ab79ee6z [2014-11-20 01:37:00] Probing for an alive pool [2014-11-20 01:37:00] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 32 [2014-11-20 01:37:01] Network diff set to 40.3G [2014-11-20 01:37:03] ERR: Asked to memcpy 0 bytes from usbutils.c _usb_read():3197 [2014-11-20 01:37:03] HFA : OP_USB_INIT failed! Operation status 17 (ASIC core power fault) [2014-11-20 01:37:03] HFA : OP_USB_INIT: Quadrant 3 (of 4) regulator failure [2014-11-20 01:37:06] API running in UNRESTRICTED read access mode on port 4028 (9) After that it goes in loop and trying to start. What is Quadrant and regulator? Sounds like your board has a fault on it. http://www.swissapp.mobi/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/mqdefault5.jpg In picture quadrant 3, it is high diagonally on left, closest to USB header? Will check regulators, it can be faulty capacitor for that quadrant maybe too? It is possible to get diagram for Hashfast boards? ;) I had Antminer s1 with broken capacitor and regulator, i fixed regulator and worked ok without capacitor... :) If you figure it out or find a way to bypass that die or something, please share. I have the same issue with several cards. Can you explain little more how to do that in your opinion? Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: h@shKraker on November 22, 2014, 03:26:54 PM Hey Mr. Teal / et. al., If you type lsusb, do you see the devices?I happen to be in possession of a number of Sierra machines of recent purchase. They arrived, I spun up their PSUs by using the power button on the PSU and nothing happened. So ... I decided to press one of the buttons on each of the three boards in the case and viola the CoolT fans started spinning adn I felt certain there was 12VDC on the board. It seemd to me thsi should have caused ther USB device to spin up as well. I felt good about this part. So, I followed the "compiling cgminer for HashFast stuff" guide at http://hashfast.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Compiling-CG-Miner-to-show-multiple-die-temps.pdf and thought I was about to have me some mining success. This was not the case. It seems cgminer cannot see the sierra boards (each is USB connected and not chained). I have tried to connect the Sierra to a USB3 hub and a USB2 hub and I get the same outcome ... nothing shows up in dmesg (oh yea ... I'm running Ubuntu 14.04LTS on said MiniITX / shuttle machine) *AND* thus nothing gets seen by cgminer. I am using a MininItx form-factor PC. The wierd part of all of this is tha my BFL SC devices adn Jalos get seen and my BE USB devices get seen. Could it be that I'm getting borked by said MiniItx machine? If I followed the HashFast guide set-by-step shouldn't I see predictable outcome / the outcome HashFast described? Any amount of your wisdom is HUGELY appreciated. H@shKraker Also, you might want to try with a vanilla version of cgminer first just to ensure it's not an issue with the build of cgminer. Mr Teal, Many thanks for your reply. I surely do wish these HashFast units were as bullet proof as you PepperMining units. Back on subject now. When I type sudo lsusb I do not see any HashFast devices even though I can hear the Sierra fans spinning like turbine engines. Also, I've used both the HashFast cgminer git pull *AND* the latest standard cgminer git pull. I have a standard ATX Intel-I7 machine running some Habaneros right now sooooooo .... I brought one of the Sierras to that same mining location and am gonna connect it up with the Habaneros and see if I can eliminate the mini-itx form factor / USB hardware as the culprit. H@shKraker Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: h@shKraker on November 22, 2014, 07:43:15 PM Mr. Teal,
I plugged a Sierra into the same USB hub that my Habanero machines are plugged into and cgminer successfully saw the Habanero units but DID NOT see the Sierra. This tells me that the ATC side of the USB interface is not the problem. It's as if, even when the Sierra fans are spinning like a turbine and the board SHOULD have power that the Sierra just isn't there. The odd thing is the person from whom I purchased these said they were racked up and actively mining right up to the point where they were shut down, boxed up and sent to me. Oh yea, I do not see the Sierra boards present themselves in dmesg and I don't see them in sudo lsusb. What gives? H@shKraker Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: h@shKraker on November 22, 2014, 08:19:49 PM I wonder .... could it be that Ubuntu 14.04LTS isn't playing nice?
H@shKraker Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: MrTeal on November 22, 2014, 10:48:35 PM I wonder .... could it be that Ubuntu 14.04LTS isn't playing nice? Possibly. I would try plugging them into another device to see if they show up there.H@shKraker Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: h@shKraker on November 23, 2014, 04:25:57 AM AhHAAA .... looking at dmesg I noticed TONS of error messages saying the USB controller was constantly going off line, restarting, experiencing I.O errors, going offline ... lather, rinse repeat .... :o Me thinks it's time to scavenge the CPU, SSD, DVD-R and build a new full ATX machine as opposed to a mini-itx.
H@shKraker Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: SolarSilver on November 30, 2014, 11:51:12 PM LARRY didn't want to run for more then 2 secs... so i lowered the clocks settings down to 300 (--hfa-hash-clock 300) and LARRY decided to hash for more the 10mins. After which I kept upping the MHz by 50 every 10 mins, all the way to 604 (--hfa-hash-clock 604). Hey, I have 2 hfa devices that have been running in a colo for months without any problems. Running cgminer 4.8 these days now One system decided to throw in the towel last week with the same error, overheating. If one starts up cgminer the first time it states: Code: HFS hfsb: Hit overheat temp 96.1, throttling! (the following times you launch cgminer it just mentions Code: HFS hfsb: Thermal overload tripped! Shutting down device and no additional info. Only if you power it down for a while it cools down enough) I only managed to keep it running if I set the freq to 125, where the temp is hovering around 98 degrees and it complains all the time Code: HFS hfsb: Hit overheat temp 95.3, throttling! or similar temperatures above 95 degrees I guess I have a cooling issue (bad heatsink, all three fans are running at --hfa-fan 100 and do pass a load of air, or a bad temperature sensor). How does one isolate the problem to one of the three boards? Do I have to hook up each board separately like in the BabyJet? Or could this error be the symptom of having a bad power supply (I guess that is the next suspect on my list)? Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: jddebug on December 01, 2014, 12:11:22 AM LARRY didn't want to run for more then 2 secs... so i lowered the clocks settings down to 300 (--hfa-hash-clock 300) and LARRY decided to hash for more the 10mins. After which I kept upping the MHz by 50 every 10 mins, all the way to 604 (--hfa-hash-clock 604). Hey, I have 2 hfa devices that have been running in a colo for months without any problems. Running cgminer 4.8 these days now One system decided to throw in the towel last week with the same error, overheating. If one starts up cgminer the first time it states: Code: HFS hfsb: Hit overheat temp 96.1, throttling! (the following times you launch cgminer it just mentions Code: HFS hfsb: Thermal overload tripped! Shutting down device and no additional info. Only if you power it down for a while it cools down enough) I only managed to keep it running if I set the freq to 125, where the temp is hovering around 98 degrees and it complains all the time Code: HFS hfsb: Hit overheat temp 95.3, throttling! or similar temperatures above 95 degrees I guess I have a cooling issue (bad heatsink, all three fans are running at --hfa-fan 100 and do pass a load of air, or a bad temperature sensor). How does one isolate the problem to one of the three boards? Do I have to hook up each board separately like in the BabyJet? Or could this error be the symptom of having a bad power supply (I guess that is the next suspect on my list)? I've had this happen in excess of 21 times on different Sierras. Its the water block. The pump is failing or the fluid has leaked out. I have purchased a backup supply of these water coolers. They are the exact ones hashfast used. If you need one I can sell you one. Just PM me. btw, its almost always just one of the coolers, there are 3 in the sierra. I have developed a way to determine easily which one it is as its hard to tell. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: SolarSilver on December 01, 2014, 06:09:02 AM I have developed a way to determine easily which one it is as its hard to tell. Care to elaborate? [edit] How does one find out which of the three boards is causing the problem? [/edit] How much does a replacement cooling block cost? I wonder if it's even worth it at todays difficulty Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: MrTeal on December 01, 2014, 07:23:30 AM I have developed a way to determine easily which one it is as its hard to tell. Care to elaborate? How much does a replacement cooling block cost? I wonder if it's even worth it at todays difficulty Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: LiteGuardian on January 14, 2015, 04:05:53 PM Hi, I am trying to help a friend who has a Seirra he bought but was never able to get working. He bought one back in April with someone else and that guy flaked on him and he has no tech expertise and was basically stuck with it until he met me now. I dont think a Seirra is even close to profitable now but I told him I would try to help him get it working anyways.
can anyone provide me with the latest firmware for the sierra? I assume his has the original firmware since he has had it sitting around for almost a year. I am able to get it working and hashing at 1.2TH/s but it constantly fails after 1 - 20 minutes with lots of USB errors. Sometimes it will start and stop in less than a minute with USB errors and sometimes it will run for almost 20 minutes before the errors happen and cgminer crashes. I am hoping new firmware will help. Hashfast seems defunct or close to it, their setup.hashfast.com page doesnt work for me (i just get their website), I cant register for their site and they wont respond to support requests. Thanks much. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: digitizedcurrency2010 on January 19, 2015, 02:42:15 AM At present I am running Hashfast Sierra Batch 2. on Ubuntu.
A couple of months ago I had an issue with 3 rd top the coolers . I replaced and it fixed the issue. 2 Days ago I have the similar issue with over heating . I replaced the fan , but after installing, I get the following issue. Here is the error on console. HFB 0 NOTICE: Hash Core Error: Still emitting hashes: die 0 core 0, count: 1300 HFB 0 NOTICE: Hash Core Error: Still emitting hashes: die 0 core 0, count: 1400 HFB 0 NOTICE: Hash Core Error: Still emitting hashes: die 0 core 0, count: 1500 HFB 0 NOTICE: Hash Core Error: Still emitting hashes: die 0 core 0, count: 1600 If I take out the third card and run the other 2 cards it Runs fine. Any Ideas would be appreciated . Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: digitizedcurrency2010 on January 19, 2015, 03:09:18 AM Hi, I am trying to help a friend who has a Seirra he bought but was never able to get working. He bought one back in April with someone else and that guy flaked on him and he has no tech expertise and was basically stuck with it until he met me now. I dont think a Seirra is even close to profitable now but I told him I would try to help him get it working anyways. can anyone provide me with the latest firmware for the sierra? I assume his has the original firmware since he has had it sitting around for almost a year. I am able to get it working and hashing at 1.2TH/s but it constantly fails after 1 - 20 minutes with lots of USB errors. Sometimes it will start and stop in less than a minute with USB errors and sometimes it will run for almost 20 minutes before the errors happen and cgminer crashes. I am hoping new firmware will help. Hashfast seems defunct or close to it, their setup.hashfast.com page doesnt work for me (i just get their website), I cant register for their site and they wont respond to support requests. Thanks much. Can you post the logs. Title: Re: HashFast Sierra's Owners Thread Post by: Gyrsur on July 25, 2015, 08:54:11 PM Hey Mr. Teal / et. al., If you type lsusb, do you see the devices?I happen to be in possession of a number of Sierra machines of recent purchase. They arrived, I spun up their PSUs by using the power button on the PSU and nothing happened. So ... I decided to press one of the buttons on each of the three boards in the case and viola the CoolT fans started spinning adn I felt certain there was 12VDC on the board. It seemd to me thsi should have caused ther USB device to spin up as well. I felt good about this part. So, I followed the "compiling cgminer for HashFast stuff" guide at http://hashfast.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Compiling-CG-Miner-to-show-multiple-die-temps.pdf and thought I was about to have me some mining success. This was not the case. It seems cgminer cannot see the sierra boards (each is USB connected and not chained). I have tried to connect the Sierra to a USB3 hub and a USB2 hub and I get the same outcome ... nothing shows up in dmesg (oh yea ... I'm running Ubuntu 14.04LTS on said MiniITX / shuttle machine) *AND* thus nothing gets seen by cgminer. I am using a MininItx form-factor PC. The wierd part of all of this is tha my BFL SC devices adn Jalos get seen and my BE USB devices get seen. Could it be that I'm getting borked by said MiniItx machine? If I followed the HashFast guide set-by-step shouldn't I see predictable outcome / the outcome HashFast described? Any amount of your wisdom is HUGELY appreciated. H@shKraker Also, you might want to try with a vanilla version of cgminer first just to ensure it's not an issue with the build of cgminer. Mr Teal, Many thanks for your reply. I surely do wish these HashFast units were as bullet proof as you PepperMining units. Back on subject now. When I type sudo lsusb I do not see any HashFast devices even though I can hear the Sierra fans spinning like turbine engines. Also, I've used both the HashFast cgminer git pull *AND* the latest standard cgminer git pull. I have a standard ATX Intel-I7 machine running some Habaneros right now sooooooo .... I brought one of the Sierras to that same mining location and am gonna connect it up with the Habaneros and see if I can eliminate the mini-itx form factor / USB hardware as the culprit. H@shKraker can someone provide this pdf file above in the quote please? |
