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Been waiting for this thread to pop up. I've got 5 Gridseed Blade units being delivered tomorrow morning!

... will have some more information in a few hours ...

Pretty sure that site is SCAM.

... so will start to test it now ^^

https://i.imgur.com/C45rA3bl.jpg

 :)

http://7976711d6894623e687d-ba32c5fae889c9d78fffdd3f26939906.r74.cf1.rackcdn.com/Screen%20Shot%202014-04-16%20at%209.52.49%20PM.png

what devices are those jmordica?

These are the gridseed blades :)

Hi,,Anyone can tell me if bfgminer 3.10.0 is ready to mine with GridSeed Blade ??
Also if we can mine with, have you the exact command line compile it and to launch it ?

Thank you very much ?

I don't see any info on bfgminer github to compile it with gridseed Blade support :(

@jmordica which cgminer are you using, I tryed out the standard gridseed which shoed me ... at least on rasp 0.3x per blade the pool was reporting fine ...

It is a modified version of these two projects:
https://github.com/dtbartle/cgminer-gc3355
https://github.com/girnyau/cgminer-gc3355

My forked project is here: https://github.com/jmordica/cgminer-gc3355

You can see my latest commits for allowing for more chips. The Blades are 40 chips per USB card. So in the gridseed-options you can do chips=40. This allows cgminer to display the correct local hashrate of each board.

I also just forked the girnyau project because it allows for calling freq=838 easily which seems to work best for these devices so far.

thx, a lot ... would it be possible to have a rasp binary .. of your fork? :-)

Yep no problem I can brew one up :)

I'll also compile this one and send you the download link to add to your guide.

thx a  lot.

Hi jmordica,

did you plan to add griseed support to the recent cgminer 4.x version ???

That's a very great job to support gridseed on 3.7.2 but this version contains lot's of bugs  with multi-pool autoswitch.
The 4.x version resolve all bug but 4.x doesn't support gridseed :(

Thank you very much

Interesting, following this, next step voltmod?  :)

Here is my binary link http://7976711d6894623e687d-ba32c5fae889c9d78fffdd3f26939906.r74.cf1.rackcdn.com/cgminer

I will have the raspberry compiled shortly.

I haven't looked into this yet but I'm also pretty busy with other things at the moment. When I get some time I will circle back up here and have a look to see what it will take :)

Hi!
This looks pretty interesting...

Did i see the correct pricing? 1 BTC?
Im thinking in getting 2 of these suckers...

Is this site thrustworthy?

- http://lightningasic.me/gridseed-blade-miner-asic-5-2mhs-80-chip-scrypt-miner/

What is the ETA of this orders?

Best Regards,

LPC

Well it was on the site (that is not working anymore...).

For 1 BTC was a fair price from what it is...
The problem are the greedy sellers and not the product cost...

Best Regards,

LPC

The site is up again...

It still says Cost: 1 BTC...

LPC

stop posting scam links started with a reference to my opening post to misguide ... people following this thread ...

for all others please report that post ... it's a try to get people scamed ... the real site from lightningasic ... is referenced here in the opening thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421921.0

Hi!
Are you blind, stupid... or in the middle?

I was posting a link that was posted earlier... didn´t you see that?
Here:


Im not trying to get anyone scammed, im also looking to purchase these... So stop saying crap about me...

geeeezzzzzz... Ppl must start getting out of the cave more often...

LPC

yep didn't sa that link earlier .. sry ... but anyway stop referencing scam links ...

just got my little babies in the post...i tried cgminer 3.2.7 + winusb drivers and chips=40 but i keep getting no devices detected  ??? ??? ???

used bfgminer 3.10.0 but it is showing an inaccurate speed...actually the speed has been increasing but the first two columns are incorrect

http://www.batpic.com/images/2014/04/18/bfgminer.jpg

0.2 btc bounty to the first person who gets version of bfgminer working that shows the correct speed :)

We got our 2 blade miners this morning.  Trying to get setup but total its only running at 1.8Mh/s.

Can you share your confi settings or anything else that might be affecting it?

Thanks

Brad

http://cryptomining-blog.com/1990-updated-cgminer-3-7-2-with-support-for-gridseed-5-chip-and-80-chip-gc3355-asics/

http://cryptomining-blog.com/page/8/

maybe it can help

I have this working already in bfgminer and cgminer :)

15Mx8Veh2iryc4RawjqiEJKLpb68CFSxTp

Nice! can you please post some compiled versions on here and i will transfer the 0.2 btc straight away :)

this could maybe help

https://minereu.com/gridseed-blade-miner-80-chip-setup-guide/

thanks i tried that version of cgminer (3.7.2 i think from the crypto blog) from there but it doesn't work...just says no device detected. However i can get the modified version of bfgminer to work but the speed is a bit inaccurate.

as it is more or less the same as the gs5 ... I will move both support threads together ...

and close this thread

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=482352

YES, it is a SCAM

Bitciondad has been posting that same line everywhere... He is behind the fake Lightning Asic, I did sent him a PM asking him to stop posting the Fake URL but obviously he things people are dumb.

Here is the compiled cgminer: http://7976711d6894623e687d-ba32c5fae889c9d78fffdd3f26939906.r74.cf1.rackcdn.com/cgminer

having an issue with mine it only shows GD 0  2.7 Mh
installed nasty zadig crap and i see 2 devices under devices but i only see 1 board hashing
not sure what the proper device command is for these blades
the one provided on the net constant gives improper command parameters and crash
 

Where are you guys purchasing your blades from? Im trying to find a reputable seller ... I see comm issues w/ atari02 (gawminers)... you guys get them anywhere else?

Dark seems to be reliable seller although also being hard to get ahold of.

A very good online seller is https://minereu.com

I work with sevengnomes.com so I am biased, but I bought mine from there too :)
Got it in 3 days, but I also live nearby, so probably 4-5 days for most.
If you are looking for someone prompt and trustworthy though, that's what I'd recommend.

how can i get cgminer to always detect blades?

Yes, I can sell blades ... but at the moment I reduce it to people ... in switzerland (local pickup) ... to avoid getting to much dispatching work. But I might do dispatching for bigger orders to EU ... ust get in contact with me ... :-)

Seems Scripta (scripta-20140408.img.gz mox235 version) image for Rasberry Pi is not hashing stable and swings from 17Mh to 20Mh/s for my 4 Gridseed Blades. If I just use cgminer (http://cryptomining-blog.com/1990-updated-cgminer-3-7-2-with-support-for-gridseed-5-chip-and-80-chip-gc3355-asics/) on windows it will get a stable 22Mh/s, but the only problem is my gridseed blades doesn't always show up even when you unplug and replug in after started and using hotplug=5 or 10.

Using https://github.com/mox235/scripta (scripta-20140408.img.gz)   posted a new version and will test tonight, but bfgminer doesn't produce the same hash power as cgminer on miner or pool side. I can only get 14-16Mh/s with bfgminer.

Hashra 1.4 Image  (just released)  locks you to 800freq or 850freq which isn't good because 838freq is the sweet spot for blades to produce low hw errors. Yes I know a blade version will be released, but I need a solution today.

Only way to get cgminer to detect devices is update driver one by one to the STelectronic driver one then use zadig select device one by one to update WinUSB driver after starting cgminer. Once you close you need to revert the driver back to STelectronic and use WinUSB all over again which is crazy! Any tricks to have cgminer find the devices every time with no issues?

https://github.com/jmordica/cgminer-gc3355 seems to have it stable and doesn't have any issues?? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=571255.0) but I don't know how to compile it for windows or update a raspberry image with his version, if it is stable??
 
Any feedback would greatly be appreciated!

Thanks,
Rob

https://github.com/siklon/cpuminer-gc3355
Has Blade support and works pretty well.
Windows Binary: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7z1cj75mhvojjah/minerd-sandor111.exe

Thanks! Any Raspberry images have this latest compiled version or is there a way to make Hashra or Scripta use cpuminer?

Hey guys! Nice guide.

Ive got a few questions.

1. Where to buy?
2. What do I need beside the G-Blade?

Thanks in advance :)

Hi Depends on where you are ?

You will need a Good PSU 550w (i have seen posts about the PSU that included in the accessory pack where people are having issues)
2 (1 per Blade) good 5 core USB leads (not the 4 core ones)
A good powered USB 2 Hub
PC / Ras Pi
and you set

I have been running three blades from one 12V 30A PSU with no problems but not all PSUs are created equal as they say :)

For switzerland you can buy ... from me ^^

Iam located in Germany, whats the price from you?

send me a pm ... let's try to keep this thread ... with out sales ...

Hi Gus
i just built my self a new linux box to run my 3 blades
and i have install ubuntu 13.10

i have installed cgminer and it runs the blades but i not get the top information on the screen all i  get is this


 [2014-04-24 08:38:26] Accepted 0aa45cf6 Diff 24/16 GSD 3                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 07f34bb6 Diff 32/16 GSD 0                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 0112108e Diff 239/16 GSD 1                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 099c6168 Diff 27/16 GSD 3                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 033420b0 Diff 80/16 GSD 3                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 089b1861 Diff 30/16 GSD 1                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 0e737b94 Diff 18/16 GSD 0                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted a2e955ca Diff 402/16 GSD 1                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 0fabc030 Diff 16/16 GSD 3                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 089de2e9 Diff 30/16 GSD 1                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Found block for pool 0!                   
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 03d1b0cb Diff 17.2K/16 BLOCK! GSD 1                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 07ec563a Diff 32/16 GSD 2                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Network diff set to 0                   
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block                   
 [2014-04-24 08:38:28] Accepted 065791ac Diff 40/16 GSD 0                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:28] Accepted 0bd6f158 Diff 22/16 GSD 2                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:28] Accepted 01e0cf13 Diff 136/16 GSD 0                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:29] Accepted 083ef6a2 Diff 31/16 GSD 3                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:29] Accepted 0de70908 Diff 18/16 GSD 3                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:29] Accepted 0744833f Diff 35/16 GSD 1                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:29] Accepted 074cded0 Diff 35/16 GSD 1               

any ideas what i did wrong ??

You have a problem with your curses dev Library if you want  top information you must install curses dev Library and compile cgminer with it.

still the same
this is what i used


Install Pre-Requisites:
Code:
sudo -s
apt-get update
apt-get install build-essential libtool libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libudev-dev autoconf automake screen

Grab possibly needed packages:
Code:
cd
wget http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.34.0.tar.bz2
wget http://www.digip.org/jansson/releases/jansson-2.5.tar.bz2

Install curl and jansso packages:
Code:
tar -xvf curl-7.34.0.tar.bz2
cd curl-7.34.0/
./configure
make
make install
cd

Code:
tar -xvf jansson-2.5.tar.bz2
cd jansson-2.5/ 
./configure
make
make install
cd

I fixed it
i will post the full info when i get home

Yes i know that this is on this thread and others BUT
it can get confusing for some of us OLD gits
so i thought i would do it command by command


ok heres what i did
make sure you are sudo su to root
cd   
apt-get install build-essential libtool libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libudev-dev autoconf automake screen
wget http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.34.0.tar.bz2
wget http://www.digip.org/jansson/releases/jansson-2.5.tar.bz2
tar -xvf curl-7.34.0.tar.bz2
cd curl-7.34.0
./configure
make
make install
cd ..

tar -xvf jansson-2.5.tar.bz2
cd jansson-2.5
./configure
make
make install
wget http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/ubuntu/pool/main/a/automake1.11/automake1.11_1.11.6-2_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i automake1.11_1.11.6-2_all.deb
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libjansson.* /usr/lib/
cd ..
git clone https://github.com/jmordica/cgminer-gc3355
if you have a problem with git then use  'apt-get install git'
cd cgminer-gc3355/
./configure --enable-scrypt --enable-gridseed
make

Thats it your done
./cgminer --gridseed-options=baud=115200,freq=800,chips=40,modules=1,usefifo=0,btc=0 --hotplug=0


this works on Ubuntu 13.10  and the new version 14 Ubuntu

Hope this helps someone out.

So, question, the cgminer 3.7.2 that works in windows for the gblade.
The HW count, is that diff1 count or vardiff HW count?

Here is the compiled cgminer for Raspberry Pi that supports Gridseed: http://0c31ac7857e819701732-7c102875f448c5383a11c1d07426cb3e.r86.cf1.rackcdn.com/cgminer

Here is the source: https://github.com/jmordica/cgminer-gc3355

chips=40 for blade and chips=5 for 5-chip.

hi jmordica,

I have a problem with your cgminer with my G-Blade Gridseed (40 chip on board) .

On only one autoswitch pool (not all), when it switch to currency, all shares are reject with this error message:
share is above target rejected

I try to modify diff but i have the same problem.
To solve the problem i must switch to backup pool and when I switch again to the autoswitch pool, that works very fine until pool switch to currency.

Have you an idea to solve the problem ?

What pool are you getting this error on?
I will see if I can point my blades at it and see if I get the same issues

nicehash.com

When there pool switch to currency i have the problem.

And you read the warnings


Popular cgminer 3.7.2 is not supported due to the bug in the code. You have to use newer miner. Read FAQ to learn more about it.

Found here

https://nicehash.com/?p=gstarted

Ok that's recent this warning, i don't see it this week.

But there are a big problem with the gridseed G-Blade.

The only soft which is 100% compatible is fork from jmordica, all other have bug because G-Blade have 40 chip and not 5 :(
 

I try to patch bfgminer to support 40 chip but i'm not good programmer and my patch don't work very well, pool detect 7,8Mh/s against 10,6Mh/s with the jmordica fork of cgminer.

I have two blades and with bfgminer they work only on 2.5 to 2.6 MHz
and also one of them after 10 minutes goes DEAD and after restarting says can not write to com port 7
I use 4 port HUB not powered.

With cgminer there is a big problem to make it working.

I use it on windows so is there any advice what to do?
Frequency is 800Mhz

cgminer works flawless on a raspberry ... super stable at 5.5 on the pool

Hi

I played with my blades for few hours, read ton of online materials but did not find solution for my problem.

I connected blades to my home Windows server and the problem is when I start cgminer it does not detect blades. I have to unplug the blades, start cpuminer and then plug usb cables from blades quite fast so cgminer detect the hardware. It is frustrating as server is in the part of the house I have a long walk to and going there to do such stuff manually instead of remote desktop :/

without tweak in GC3355.c file BFGminer isn't ready to fully works with gridseed G-Blade,.
Bfgminer support the first gridseed(300Kh/s) but not completely the G-blade (5.5Mh/s).

The reason is first gridseed use 5 chips GC3355 on board, against 40 chips by board with the G-Blade.

I work on a patch but i'm not a guru programmer so actually my patch don't work very well.

I push it to github when it's done.

not for me =( ... id give anything to have cgminer working on my rpi but the USB bus resets after a few minutes of mining and miners stop =(
I can only get minerd(cpuminer) to work stable on the USB ports since it seems to communicate differently through them or something... but cpuminer is like 1MH slower and for some reason it doesnt seem to report the pool accepting all the shares generated. Like 2 nonce found messages would scroll past but only 1 accepted at pool ... with no reject meessage either. Happens a few times a minute. So, the avg reported pool hashrate by minerd is like 1-2MH less than cgminer 3.7.2 hosted on a laptop.
I wish I could try bfgminer see if it works more stable on the rpi

The hub I have it all plugged into is powered as well.
So, I dont know wtf the deal is =(

I used a fresh debian install ... and the orginal cgminer from andreed ... wrong hashrate ... but doesn't matter ... and changed the cmdline ... slub_flag or something like this ... and it works stable 48h and more

Yeah I tried that flag, same behaviour =( ... oh well guess its fucked.

I have noticed alot of duplicated shares by gridseed blade, have anyone else that problem?

Anyone using cpuminer? Care to post your results?

I tried it and its way slower than cgminer 3.7.2 =( ... at least using my pi as host, which come to find out it was having major USB issues w/ the gblades... so maybe thats why it was slow.

Sandor111,

First thanks for all the work.

So far the new 90a work fine with my usb pod gridseeds, but it has a few problems with my gridseed blade.

1. Each 40 chip board starts off fine, 10-30 minutes in one will slowly start to slow down until no hashes are reported, then the other will stop also.
2. I am running the Pods and the Blade on separate instances.
3. Is there a way to run them both on the same instance , where the 10 pods can be auto tuned and the two 40 chip blades can be set for a hard freq?


Thanks

TC

@Anyone with G-Blades: If you could upload the full miner log with debug output, that would be helpful.

For now, seperate instances is the only way, but it's a good idea to specify which devices should be autotuned. I'll think about adding that.

Sandor111,

Can you tell me how to capture the debug for you?

If anyone with a blade is willing to try this out, I have been working to include blade support on Scripta, a RPi controller for Scrypt hashing. Here is link to my latest attempt to incorporate the blade:
https://mega.co.nz/#!YZMRUZgA!aCRXr1W860jcic5bl12fbSRpHZwSX0WEgmu4PcuZlDE (https://mega.co.nz/#!YZMRUZgA!aCRXr1W860jcic5bl12fbSRpHZwSX0WEgmu4PcuZlDE)
The image is unzipped at 15gb, but that is just the size card I was using, it should easily fit on 8gb

This is still in alpha/beta development, but without a blade of my own it is tough to test.
Here is the repo for the development branch of Scripta: https://github.com/DocGonzzo/scripta
And here is the original Scripta announcement: https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=9908.0

Please be aware that although the BTC cores should not be running, it would probably be wise to keep an eye on the device temp when running this distro

Anyone tried the latest cpuminer (0.9c)? Should be working fine with G-Blades now.

That didnt upload right. This should work: https://mega.co.nz/#!ZVkACTAD!aCRXr1W860jcic5bl12fbSRpHZwSX0WEgmu4PcuZlDE (https://mega.co.nz/#!ZVkACTAD!aCRXr1W860jcic5bl12fbSRpHZwSX0WEgmu4PcuZlDE)

Img MD5: e6b37001d1ffe04dde848a9d9fcf1a7b
Zip MD5: 0541e3e2e65a243de9b352a64bbf92c2

Is this one blade or 20 unit of gridseed blade (total 40 blade) ?

Hi, this is 20 blades. Each blade has 2 physical usb devices so it shows as 40 in cgminer/bfgminer.

I managed to get the gridseed version of cgminer working,  but you need to run it with the sudo command (I use a Rasp-pi) to get it to detect the USB

Same problem here, but I found a pain-in-the-ass cure for it.  Download a program called "Zadig" which manages your WINUSB and other device drivers. Open the program, and go the options tab at top and click "list all devices" Then after you start cgminer (Windows x64) you click on the reinstall WINUSB driver over the STM32 driver and your Gridseed Blades will be recognized and won't drop off completely I found.

Hello,

i have a problem with my blades.
The miner i am using is cgminer 3.7.2 gridseed. I have 7 blades on my laptop.
Installed Windows usb drivers. When i run cgminer it only detects one gsd. not more. i have first to start cg and then plug in the blades after running it. Then it detects all blades.
Also cg shuts down one time a day. This happens most times in the night. Everytime a differnt time.
Can please somebody help me ?

 
does the g blade mine x11 and or n-factor?

nope. still just scrypt asics like the small gridseeds

perhaps off topic, but these are going for around 699 now...i have the ability to get one in 5 days, wondering if scrypt is still profitable for say...next 69 days?  that's what it would take to break even on one of these.

I know BTC is unprofitable at the moment to mine

also, do you really need a rPi to run these, or can you just usb both to your pc, and does each board need a power supply or only one?

edit:  I read a few pages back, looks like just a psu and usb cables.  still wondering if 699...~1 btc is a good price and if it is still profitable

In CGMiner, curious to know what the WU: is for.  ???
I have six blades up and running ( 12 total PCB's ) - wondering what my WU should be.
Running at 838 Mhz and it runs fine for hours.  Few HW issues, but nothing to be worried about.
Also for those that are purchasing blades still.  Don't buy the 12V 10A power adapters.  Get a good PSU instead.

I'm earning about 0.05btc / day with this setup mining various alts and subselling them.  Wondering if I should mine strictly LTC.
I am fairly new and although I have read many forums, I'm still trying to find the best way to monetize my blades. ( 30 Mhash )

Thanks!

is it possible to run blades and mini from same cgminer?

ive compiled your miner but i still can not get it to show the proper hashrate!

Yes, but it is a pain to setup and not recommended.  It's much easier to have them in separate windows.

Any chance you know of a guide to do this ? I have given up after all my searching throughout the days, bit worn out :(

No, I don't sorry.  I only run blades, but I've read elsewhere that it can be done but it is more trouble than it's worth.
This thread may be helpful.  https://forum.give-me-coins.com/discussion/634/mining-litecoin-with-different-gpus/p1
Why don't you run two instances?

still trying to find a guide for that. I don't know the .conf commands needed to force which units run on which instance

what is the best vardiff for these g-blades?
i notice its two boards running ~2.5mh so i need to apply settings around this?

bump :)

Check out this thread. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=615809.msg6813270#msg6813270, I got mine today, will post as soon as I can figure out how to attach jpg's.

jmordica,

Thanks for this. I love it verses cpuminer. I only have one problem. I can get my full advertised hash rate for a good 4-6 hours and then my HW rate increases and my hash rate drops by almost half.

Is there something I'm doing wrong???

Here's my current config file:

{
        "pools": [
                {
                        "url": "stratum+tcp://uswest.wafflepool.com:3333",
                        "user": "1QJoj61hmoBYQg8j4YEhxLJDxRjGVyYMtw_RBP1",
                        "pass": "d=1024"
                },
                {
                        "url": "stratum+tcp://us-west2.multipool.us:7777",
                        "user": "RBP1",
                        "pass": "123"
                },
                {
                        "url": "stratum+tcp://scryptguild.com:3333",
                        "user": "RBP1",
                        "pass": "123"
                },
                {
                        "url": "stratum+tcp://us.clevermining.com:3333",
                        "user": "1QJoj61hmoBYQg8j4YEhxLJDxRjGVyYMtw",
                        "pass": "d=1024"
                }
        ],
        "gridseed-options": "baud=115200,freq=838,chips=40,modules=1,usefifo=0",
        "hotplug": "30",
        "worksize": "1",
        "kernel": "scrypt",
        "thread-concurrency": "8192",
        "lookup-gap": "0",
        "gpu-threads": "2",
        "queue": "0",
        "scan-time": "1",
        "expiry": "1",
        "auto-fan": true,
        "scrypt": true,
        "api-listen": true,
        "api-allow": "W:192.168.2.0/24",
        "api-port": "4028",

I'm currently running 5 Blades:

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 (5s):28.10M (avg):28.32Mh/s | A:1157632  R:10240  HW:154  WU:20.9/m
 ST: 1  SS: 0  NB: 215  LW: 17782  GF: 0  RF: 0
 Connected to uswest.wafflepool.com diff 1.02K with stratum as user 1QJoj61hmoBYQg8j4YEhxLJDxRjGVyYMtw_RBP1
 Block: 261aff9a...  Diff:25  Started: [20:01:34]  Best share: 885K
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 [P]ool management ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 GSD  0: 48E273793137  838 MHz | 2.838M/2.831Mh/s | A: 99328 R:1024 HW:18 WU: 1.8/m
 GSD  1: 48E36F6C3137  838 MHz | 2.630M/2.832Mh/s | A:133120 R:1024 HW: 8 WU: 2.4/m
 GSD  2: 48ED655F3137  838 MHz | 2.837M/2.837Mh/s | A:132096 R:   0 HW: 6 WU: 2.4/m
 GSD  3: 48FD814A3137  838 MHz | 2.838M/2.833Mh/s | A:122880 R:   0 HW:24 WU: 2.2/m
 GSD  4: 48FB727A3137  838 MHz | 2.836M/2.829Mh/s | A:131072 R:1024 HW:17 WU: 2.4/m
 GSD  5: 48E0565B3137  838 MHz | 2.693M/2.835Mh/s | A:113664 R:1024 HW: 2 WU: 2.1/m
 GSD  6: 48FD824E3731  838 MHz | 2.837M/2.830Mh/s | A:105984 R:1024 HW:31 WU: 1.9/m
 GSD  7: 48FC6F5E3731  838 MHz | 2.839M/2.834Mh/s | A:122880 R:2048 HW: 5 WU: 2.2/m
 GSD  8: 48F975483430  838 MHz | 2.837M/2.833Mh/s | A: 82432 R:2048 HW:36 WU: 1.5/m
 GSD  9: 48F2633A3430  838 MHz | 2.839M/2.831Mh/s | A:114176 R:1024 HW: 7 WU: 2.1/m
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 [2014-06-29 20:00:51] Accepted 0b29edb7 Diff 5.87K/1024 GSD 7 pool 0
 [2014-06-29 20:00:56] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
 [2014-06-29 20:01:01] Accepted 262668e6 Diff 1.72K/1024 GSD 1 pool 0
 [2014-06-29 20:01:02] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
 [2014-06-29 20:01:02] Rejected 3219709d Diff 1.31K/1024 GSD 9 pool 0 (job not found 7a14)
 [2014-06-29 20:01:05] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
 [2014-06-29 20:01:08] Accepted 19d84ab2 Diff 2.54K/1024 GSD 5 pool 0
 [2014-06-29 20:01:14] Accepted 11b8a5df Diff 3.7K/1024 GSD 3 pool 0
 [2014-06-29 20:01:14] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
 [2014-06-29 20:01:15] Accepted 3421e991 Diff 1.26K/1024 GSD 9 pool 0
 [2014-06-29 20:01:19] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
 [2014-06-29 20:01:19] Rejected 3ec0c198 Diff 1.04K/1024 GSD 5 pool 0 (job not found 7a18)
 [2014-06-29 20:01:21] Accepted 1aa8e8fb Diff 2.46K/1024 GSD 6 pool 0
 [2014-06-29 20:01:26] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
 [2014-06-29 20:01:27] Accepted 2fedbd7b Diff 1.37K/1024 GSD 4 pool 0
 [2014-06-29 20:01:28] Accepted 2d696d3c Diff 1.44K/1024 GSD 9 pool 0
 [2014-06-29 20:01:32] Accepted 26fafaab Diff 1.68K/1024 GSD 1 pool 0
 [2014-06-29 20:01:32] Accepted 364bf0c8 Diff 1.21K/1024 GSD 7 pool 0
 [2014-06-29 20:01:32] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
 [2014-06-29 20:01:32] Accepted 2622c618 Diff 1.72K/1024 GSD 0 pool 0
 [2014-06-29 20:01:34] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
 [2014-06-29 20:01:37] Accepted 0c9d2b85 Diff 5.2K/1024 GSD 1 pool 0
 [2014-06-29 20:01:39] Accepted 2b7075d0 Diff 1.51K/1024 GSD 7 pool 0

Hi,

Can you please let me know the command line(exact one) to pass in cgminer batch file to run it with your fork in? I tried but my g-blade is either not running or when it runs, it's on default config. i.e. freq to be 888 with other similar parameters.


Thanks

P.S. Please help, as I've gone crazy trying to run my g-blade with bfgminer but got a lot(!) of errors and no acceptable hash-rate(2-5.1mh/s at max.).

Ok I am at hair tearing out time.

Trying to run a gridseed blade with cgminer.  I cant seem to get cgminer to find the blades itself.  I have to start cgminer then plug the blades in 1 by 1.  Which is a pain and should be unnecessary.  I am also wanting to use cgwatcher so that in the event a power cut or whatever everything will start mining again by itself.

I'm using cgminer 3.7.2 blade version
Used zadig to change drivers
this is the line currently using      -o stratum+tcp://stratum.doge.hashfaster.com:3339 -u nzgrant.5 -p2 --scrypt --gridseed-options=freq=850,chips=40


Any thoughts?

Dear all,
i ordered 2 blades from zoomhash/sevengnomes on 27 May, received 19 June.
it works 4 days than the first blade stopped to work and the day after the second too.
The fan doesn't work , no green light on board ( only red light ).
I can see the hashpower on hashra dashboard but it doesn't mine any shares.
I'm waiting a definitive response from sevengnomes support from 4 days.
Spent 1700$ , 4 mining days and no warranty on that products....
very BAD customer service....


Marco

this is a support/tuning thread for the blades not .... a vendor support thread (zoomhash or whatever) ....

I'm sorry for my outburst...my fault.
I was  hoping for anyone with same problems that found a way to resolve it.
ty

Seriously though - im in the EXACT same boat.  I came to the last page hoping to see some sort of hardware support back and forth here...I'll place an update AFTER I have to sift through the posts.

UPDATE:  Just as I suspected - no support that I could see except for software based support and tuning suggestions. 

@eraser - I fixed it at least by making a new set of wiring for my units (bought a 10 pack dc barrel plug adapters purchased from amazon and used the pcie 6x to molex connectors I had from some gpu boxes.  Now it works again.  I would suggest you check your wiring.

in other news, I completely broke one of my blades (both sides) by burning out the ab126 (IIRC?) ferrite bead next to the female barrel jack where the plug fits into.

would it work to simply throw a lot of conductive glue over the area?  (what is this ferrite bead for?)

Hey all, I've seen peeps in here running massive amounts of blades, and I'm having an issue running 3 gridseeds (6 blades). 

Part of my issue, is one of them is modded and overclocked, so it requires individual settings.  But I managed to get that done, and managed to get all 6 blades running mining all one particular coin.  They ran fine like this for nearly a month.

But now I've decided that it's too much magahash to throw all at one coin, since the overall mining of the coin is lowered..  (no sense throwing all 18 mh/s at a coin that's only got 6 mh's besides me mining it)  So I've created separate batch and config files for each gridseed.  This was sort of a pita to do as it required me tagging all the cables so I could plug them in at the proper time, but once it was running it was solid for a day or so.

Well, as I've noticed from time to time, a blade will eventually quit producing work, even though it appears to be doing so.  Before this would have just taken killing and restarting cgminer then unplugging and replugging all the blades back in using hotplug.

With the 3 separate instances, hotplug has to be turned off and all the blades called out individually, so when one drops, you only kill one other blade and replug both blades called out by that instance.  That was great, it kept the other 4 blades mining when only one needed a restart.  And it worked for a couple days.....

.....then this morning all hell broke loose.  I went to restart a blade, and could not get CGminer (the windows ALT version) to recognise both blades at once, it would crash.  I could start one or the other, but both plugged in at once would crash.

Natural first solution is "have you turned it off and on again", so I shut everything down and rebooted the rig.   After that, I could not get any instance of CGminer to recognize 2 blades at startup without crashing, and if I started CGminer with an individual blade, I could start 2 instances, but the 3rd would crash.

So, I try the Jmordica version of CGminer, swap USB cables, ports, and hubs, reinstall the USB drivers in winblows, and still get the same thing..

After 3 hours of screwing around, the only way I could get all the blades running at once was to use hotplug, when I had it running for days before without an issue.

Any clues as to the root cause and how to fix my issue?

update on my problem - I ended up destroying the ferrite bead on the other half of the blade and now I am simply going to rule it out as a bad connection on my psu or perhaps on the molex adapter I made.  I purchased 10 new ferrite beads from Digikey for maybe 6 dollars.  I've replaced them using the super lazy method of wire conductive glue (something I had around the house)  One of the two halves of the dead blade now works!  However the other half refuses to power on (I first plugged them into the usb to see if they can communicate with the pc - this broken blade refuses to work - I've tried to reinstall the bead, press the reset button on the asw100 and also even went so far as to try simply bridging that place where the bead is to be installed (from my understanding it simply acts as a low pass filter and the asic should function at least still) with the glue and nothing seems to get any connection.  I've examined the board carefully and see no damage so I'm at a complete loss for explanation)

sry for bumping this, but i need the command line for this version of cgminer, especially for the com port, how to set it via batch file(not config)

oh eee!

HI Everyone,

I did some extensive work on my Gridseed blades and found now the perfect tuning / modification combination.

If you replace the resistor to an 40KOhm resistor I highly recommend a better capacitor, PSU and also better mosfet.

Here are some photos of my latest Blade I modded. Also highly recommended you better replace the Power infeed like I did otherwise your Power connector will melt.  :o

https://www.dropbox.com/s/trfftgyykag742g/Photo%20May%2011%2C%204%2036%2047%20PM.jpg?dl=0

We do also offer this service at Lumanet.info just let us know and we work with you. Even on repair.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/to43143yrk08d7f/Photo%20May%2011%2C%204%2037%2011%20PM.jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vufe69q5dwo8bt9/Photo%20May%2011%2C%204%2048%2020%20PM.jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ojfstren7ibwfi8/Photo%20May%2011%2C%205%2043%2058%20PM.jpg

Last post was made in May. Is anyone still using this thread or has everyone gone to a different one?

Thanks

I think we still use it a bit :-)

Where is the thread that most are using, please.

Thank you

Just thought I'd drop in my 20 cents worth as well.

I didn't have much luck getting cgminer to work, but I'm running 2 blades (4 boards) quite successfully using BFGMiner 5.4.1 with the following config:

bfgminer.exe --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://scrypt.usa.nicehash.com:3333/#xnsub  -u username -p d=2048 -d gridseed -S gridseed:all --set-device gridseed:clock=775,chips=40

I've just knocked down the clock speed to 775 so as to not overheat them, so it runs comfortably around 10-12mhz, with .5% error rate over a week say.

Not bad. This thread is pretty weak when you are sorely needing info on setting up. So...Just an FYI: It took me a couple of hours of trial-n-error before I got mine to use CGminer (sorry, not a BFG fan). The trick was to use the hot-plug command. Once I figured that out, I am very happy with the way the GBlade performs. Never had a temp problem running at either 838 or 850 freq (more than that was too many errors), but do have a power supply line problem with them not lasting long due to temp meltdown. LOL...ahhh..such is the miners life. If it isn't one thing, it is another.

Good Luck

CapnBDL
     8)

Post us the cgminer configuration so we can see!

Late here....will try to remember and do it tomorrow.

Not trying to dig some old thread here, but to help others.

Am running 10 of gridseed blade using cgminer 4.3.5 win7 x64bit, and mining eth at the same time.
Basic config for cgminer:

cgminer --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://gcpool.eu:3346 -u xxxx -p xxxx --scan-serial \\.\COM3.\COM4 --gridseed-options=baud=115200,freq=850,chips=80 --hotplug 80
pause

Hope it helps.

Is this config suitable to ether as well? I thought the blades could only do scrypt.

Can anybody tell me exactly what I need piece by piece?
I want to order from aliexpress

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Gridseed-5-2-6MH-G-blade-USB-ASIC-miner-Scrypt-Miner-dogecoin-litecoin-mining-machine-Gridseed/32590687524.html?spm=2114.13010308.0.57.pmyq2c (http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Gridseed-5-2-6MH-G-blade-USB-ASIC-miner-Scrypt-Miner-dogecoin-litecoin-mining-machine-Gridseed/32590687524.html?spm=2114.13010308.0.57.pmyq2c)

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Free-Shipping-8-8x8-8x5mm-Heatsink-Aluminum-Heat-Sink-Heat-Sink-for-Electronics-Computer-Transistor/1773358876.html?spm=2114.13010308.0.47.pmyq2c (http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Free-Shipping-8-8x8-8x5mm-Heatsink-Aluminum-Heat-Sink-Heat-Sink-for-Electronics-Computer-Transistor/1773358876.html?spm=2114.13010308.0.47.pmyq2c)

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Ltc-miner-Gridseed-Blade-G-Blade-Scrypt-Litecoin-heat-sink/32591091669.html?spm=2114.13010308.0.52.pmyq2c (http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Ltc-miner-Gridseed-Blade-G-Blade-Scrypt-Litecoin-heat-sink/32591091669.html?spm=2114.13010308.0.52.pmyq2c)

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Industrial-220V-12V-3D-Printer-Parts-240W-CE-ROHS-Approval-Driver-Source-AC-DC-Switching-Power/1964654617.html?spm=2114.30010308.3.11.aqU3pf&ws_ab_test=searchweb201556_0,searchweb201602_4_10037_10017_10034_10021_507_10022_10032_10020_10018_10019,searchweb201603_2&btsid=baf40fa8-d746-42b8-b14d-2b2b8b765875 (http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Industrial-220V-12V-3D-Printer-Parts-240W-CE-ROHS-Approval-Driver-Source-AC-DC-Switching-Power/1964654617.html?spm=2114.30010308.3.11.aqU3pf&ws_ab_test=searchweb201556_0,searchweb201602_4_10037_10017_10034_10021_507_10022_10032_10020_10018_10019,searchweb201603_2&btsid=baf40fa8-d746-42b8-b14d-2b2b8b765875)

That is not a complete gridseed blade, just parts. Even if you find a complete machine, I would suggest not buying these from anywhere in general...they are old, and clunky, and a pain in the ass to setup. Just my 2 cents, I have one running now and it's okay, but I would not buy again.

Nope. Eth mining using 2 GPUs running win7 64.

Helped even after a few years, Thank you! - Additional: Working on Current(Nov, 2017) Raspberry Pi 3, over secure WiFi, Debian, cgminer-gc3355.

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WHO SEL LTHİS ?
how much is it ?

I've been finding them on eBay.

4 running, neat hobby for the price. Mod the fans with quieter artic fans, lower cfm but so far no problems. Any thoughts on lowering CFM from 90 to 50 on these blades? 

The heatskinks are seriously overkill for the wattage used by the Gridseed 80 - you could probably get away with a 10 CFG fan (if they exist in 92 mm).

 I put some of my old NFB fans on a couple of these - ballpark 40-50 cfm rated - with ZERO overheating issues other than the usual "power conversion circuitry is poorly cooled" problem.

Hi all
I am a newbie and got few blades with 80 chips (2x40) to learn.

I have hard time to set them up in my windows 10 laptop

They are both recognized from cgminer but only one seems to mine

BFF miner does not recognize them at all

Any tips or hints highly appreciated
Thank you

Hi, I'm running on Windows, and using cgminer for the first time now since buying a GridSeed (Normally use ccminer on my GPUs)
Has anyone had any luck running on 2 pools simultaneously? I can't find anything about doing this with GridSeeds or GPUs
Since it's 2x40 chip boards I thought it would be easy to separate the devices and run each board on a separate pool?

When you want to use bfgminer you have to use the vcpi driver which can be found by here > https://www.silabs.com/documents/public/software/CP210x_Universal_Windows_Driver.zip
However if you use cgminer you have to switch to the zadig driver.
In my experience the zadig driver is a pain in the behind, caused me many issues when using my blades.
Anyway you can not install both so only 1 driver can be installed to prevent even bigger issues.
Only have 2 left of them which run for nostalgic reasons at my house.