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Title: USB Block erupter Post by: JBT on September 03, 2013, 05:53:36 PM my friend gave me his usb block erupters, i install the drivers and they show up as comm devices. how do i use guiminer with them as bfgminer just uses one pool for them all.
can someone at least point me in the right direction Title: Re: USB Block erupter Post by: grue on September 03, 2013, 06:24:00 PM guiminer doesn't seem to support USB block erupters. See topic: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3878.0
cgminer seems to be supported though (see https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=220450.msg2321308#msg2321308), so you can mine on multiple pools with that. Title: Re: USB Block erupter Post by: JBT on September 03, 2013, 06:34:21 PM guiminer doesn't seem to support USB block erupters. See topic: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3878.0 cgminer seems to be supported though (see https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=220450.msg2321308#msg2321308), so you can mine on multiple pools with that. thanks going to lookl. i use bfgminer with a few shortcuts bit instead of using -S all i used -S com8 and the other shortcut -S com9. althou com10 and com 11 doesnt seem work..... with -S all only uses one worker....messy ed..... \\.\com10 works now got all miners in seperate windows.....not nice but hell it works Title: Re: USB Block erupter Post by: Zanatos666 on September 03, 2013, 06:53:29 PM I have seen where someone use -S erupter:all instead of -S all, dont know if that worked in bfgminer. Also, you have to make sure you have the icarus options configured right, --icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100"
Title: Re: USB Block erupter Post by: c789 on September 04, 2013, 12:48:47 AM Also, be aware that for many setups, cgminer 3.1.1 works best with Erupters.
Title: Re: USB Block erupter Post by: os2sam on September 04, 2013, 01:19:38 AM Using the later CGMiner's with direct USB makes it really easy to run multiple instances with however many AMU's you want in each instance.
I use the command line --usb ICA:5 in each instance and have 5 devices pointed at multiple pools. Makes it really easy to assess pool performance. Sam Title: Re: USB Block erupter Post by: Trongersoll on September 04, 2013, 01:51:23 AM Using the later CGMiner's with direct USB makes it really easy to run multiple instances with however many AMU's you want in each instance. I use the command line --usb ICA:5 in each instance and have 5 devices pointed at multiple pools. Makes it really easy to assess pool performance. Sam really? it works like that? what if there is one gpu, will they fight over it? i was wondering what i was going to do when there were too many AMUs to fit in the bigest window i can make. Title: Re: USB Block erupter Post by: os2sam on September 04, 2013, 02:38:55 AM Using the later CGMiner's with direct USB makes it really easy to run multiple instances with however many AMU's you want in each instance. I use the command line --usb ICA:5 in each instance and have 5 devices pointed at multiple pools. Makes it really easy to assess pool performance. Sam really? it works like that? what if there is one gpu, will they fight over it? i was wondering what i was going to do when there were too many AMUs to fit in the bigest window i can make. Yep, just like that. I retired my GPU's so I use the cgminer-nogpu.exe. So if you want to run one instance of cgmner.exe for your GPU's only use --usb ICA:0 and it won't use any AMU's. Then run a separate instance with cgminer-nogpu.exe for all your AMU's, or any number of them you wish. It's covered in the readme under "Advanced USB options:". Sam Title: Re: USB Block erupter Post by: Trongersoll on September 04, 2013, 02:42:49 AM i suppose that i could run one regular instance and one no gpu instance.
Title: Re: USB Block erupter Post by: os2sam on September 04, 2013, 02:49:34 AM i suppose that i could run one regular instance and one no gpu instance. Yep, or use -G to disable your GPU with regular cgminer.exe. Title: Re: USB Block erupter Post by: HellDiverUK on September 04, 2013, 07:15:57 AM Install VCP drivers, run bfgminer with the -S eruper:all -G parameters, that'll mine with the Erupters and not the GPU. Remove the -G to mine with GPU as well. Simple.
Or you could use cgminer to do the GPU mining, and bfg for the Erupters. Personally I find bfg to be far better for the Erupters - I still use cg for GPU mining (basically because it's working and I couldn't be bothered changing it). Title: Re: USB Block erupter Post by: JBT on September 06, 2013, 04:29:59 PM Install VCP drivers, run bfgminer with the -S eruper:all -G parameters, that'll mine with the Erupters and not the GPU. Remove the -G to mine with GPU as well. Simple. Or you could use cgminer to do the GPU mining, and bfg for the Erupters. Personally I find bfg to be far better for the Erupters - I still use cg for GPU mining (basically because it's working and I couldn't be bothered changing it). can i specify which erupter to use instead of all? |