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I set up my new R-Boxes yesterday and they are running fine... for about 1 hour. Then one miner is being flagged as "Idle for more than 60 seconds, declaring SICK!" and a big red "sick" flag pops up. IF this continues, the flag turns to "dead." This is also intermittent (they have been running for 6 hours today without an issue).

Does anyone know what this error means/what causes it/whether to worry/and how to fix it?

Thanks.

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I'm having the same problem. I have used it on a Win 8 desk top and raspberry pi with the same results. I have 6 miner and they randomly die.

FWIW I started seeing this too with the ZeusMiner driver today. It came back on its own, and I know the read time for the ZeusMiner is close to if not over a minute. I'm wondering if that could be a problem for the ZeusMiner or RockMiner.

Edit: got some time to look into this, in my case it was an issue with the pool (stratum disconnection).

had this with my USB antminers after rebooting everything was comming to normal.
Solution spread the antminers to 2 pcs
could not understand why this was happening maybe a usb port error

i just put up review and ive put cgminer modded for rbox - try it.

http://fuk.io/rbox-miner-review-how-to-setup-rockminer-r-box-bitcoin-asic-guide/

But mainline cgminer runs on rbox... there is no need to run a modded cgminer any more.

I have not tried the main branch cgminer yet but I can confirm that bfgminer has issues with r-box.  It may only happen with multiple pools.

I switched back to the custom cgminer fork and all my problems went away.

I've been having the same issue with three rbox's with an rPI running bfgminer.  It's not one single miner that exhibits the problem but it is randomly spread across them

I finally setup a crontab entry to kill and restart bgfminer every 4 hours and that seems to be a "workaround"

I selected bfgminer because I could never get the rbox modifications to compile - it just barfed out a bunch of unresolved symbol errros - and couldn't get a decent answer from anyone as to why at the time so I moved on

since I see in this thread cgminer is supporting them native, I will give it a shot and see if it does any better

I guess R-Boxes are just a bad investment. See, you guys have the problem with them going randomly dead or sick in bfg. I have four of them and my problem is that I have usually one R-Box that won't cooperate. I can get all four working, but I need to shift their USB plugs around in the hub constantly until all four are recognized. I can usually get three to work fine but the fourth one can take up to 15 minutes to get running if for some reason my Raspberry Pi rebooted. This is on Minepeon with bfgminer. I've tried Minera but bfgminer never sees them and cgminer spits insane amounts of hardware errors.

Oh, and this fourth troublesome R-Box can be any of them! Yup, it's not that I can single out one particular unit as faulty; sometimes the one that isn't recognized can be the leftmost unit in my setup, sometimes it's the right most unit and sometimes it's either one of the units in the middle! The thing is that one R-Box is always the odd man out and it can be any of them. It's really frustrating...

i have just 1 rbox that i reviewed on http://fuk.io nad have ZERO issues with it. This thing just works, constant hashes.
maybe i was lucky or maybe u were not.. from my experience i cannot say bad word on this little machine

AFAIK the initial BFGMiner R-Box driver had an issue that was resolved in the follow-up release. This addressed "Sick / Dead" issues with them.

And I have four that are a pain :)

Anyway when I had a single R-Box I didn't have problems either; problem is that it worked great so I bought three more! My plan was to replace some aging Block Erupter Cubes and not lose the hash rate. Again, they work awesome once I finally get all four working, but if there's a blackout and the power isn't back before the UPS is done for I'm in trouble with them.