Some of the first good news of the day! 

Sounds like a lot of progress has been made. Nice job getting Ʉ Umbrella back on track. I'm looking forward to the new launch, and hopefully some large LTC pools will jump on this.  

I'm impressed. IMO this shows that this is a serious coin.

Best of luck on the relaunch; I'll be keeping an eye on this project.

Yeah, I wouldn't mind seeing a relaunch. I think this coin has some interesting features that could set it apart. However, a horrible launch can dog a coin forever.

Which stratum server are you using from them? Looks like they have several. I'd try using this one: stratum+tcp://doberman.dogehouse.org:3336 ( High diff )

The Fury seems to take a dump on Vardif stratum servers that drop the difficulty too low. Seems like anything below 128 seems to make them a bit unstable.

I think that I'll try running them together again and see if I can get it working. I also noticed that about the low difficulty issue. Pretty much if the pool starts out low the Fury miners take a dump. The errors I keep getting are "Low difficulty share" and stale until the difficulty ramps up.


Does anyone know how granular the frequency setting is? I know with some ASIC's it's only able to jump 25Mhz at a time, but it doesn't seem like that's the case with these Zeus chips. 

Ok. I'll go ahead and try them individually and I'll swap the power bricks between the units to see if that makes a difference. Both bricks feel about the same warmth so it seems that both a pulling about the same power. I'll report back in a few minutes.

Thanks for the help.  


EDIT: Ok after playing around with them here is what I've found.

1. Both Fury's can hash just fine by themselves. Well other than the issues with cgminer you guys are working on.

2. The Fury's were originally on COM7 and COM8. I decided to try and run 2 instances of cgminer both pointed at a different COM port. This didn't work; when I'd fire up the COM8 cgminer instance it would kill the COM7 instance (Shares would stop being submitted).

3. After swapping which usb ports they were plugged into I ended up with them being on COM7 and COM9. This time I was able to run 2 instances of cgminer, and other than some extreme fluctuation in hashrate; it seems that it's working now. Pool shows ~2.6MH which is where it should be. EDIT: Seems like it's swinging over 500KH/s on both the pool and the local hashrate reported.  


So, it looks like there is some kind of software issue when trying to run both off of one cgminer instance. This was on Windows 7; is the same issue going to occur on the ZenMiner? Where it looks like it's hashing correctly, but it's silently only sending one miners work?

Thanks for the update. Hopefully the firmware / cgminer will be ready soon.

Seems like I'm having another issue now with trying to run two Fury's. On the pool side its been stuck saying 1.3-1.5 for the past 30 min; then when I checked I noticed this earlier:



It looks like the second Fury is hashing, but it doesn't look like cgminer is doing anything with the work it's doing?  

I gave it a bit more time after taking that screenshot, but it looks like it's really only sending one Fury's work.

Edit: here is the bat file I'm using:

Right now I'm on LTCRabbit to test. I'll try another pure coin pool.


The cgminer released so far is pretty unstable; seems like a lot of weird issues with it. 

Is anyone else having this issue?




This seems to occur pretty regularly. It'll sit there for like 8 seconds chewing on a share; then it either submits it, or it says it's stale and then it moves on.

Seems to be affecting the hashrate on the pools I've tried.

I'd love to see a Generation B Fury with 1-2 of the Innosilicon chips for about the same price. 

I finally got around to playing with my 2 Fury's.

Thoughts:

1. DHL did a security check on the package, and it looks like they opened / tapped it shut. Luckily nothing was missing, and the package arrived within two days of shipping from Hong Kong. So kudos for DHL.

2. The Fury are packaged really nicely in solid white boxes; lots of protecting foam. The fans are unplugged from the Fury inside of the packaging, but it's easy to plug the fan power cable into the Fury.

3. The power supply (Brick type) is the definition of "no-name". There isn't a company listed on either the all white box it came in / on the power supply itself. I wouldn't put much faith in the CE / FCC symbols listed on the bottom. The brick also would get pretty toasty; more then it should be.  

4. The Fury itself feels solid, but light. This makes sense because the board itself that contains the chips is pretty small, and the heatsink appears to be made out of aluminum. The fan seems to be decent quality, and they used 4 bolts / screws to attach the fan to the heatsink. I believe the Blizzard from Zeus only uses 2 screws to hold the fan grill on.

5. I found this to be a little funny / GAW might want to contact the manufacture. The silkscreen on the heatsink that says GAWminers The Fury is upside-down when the miner is sitting on its feet. Looks a bit odd due to this. Doesn't affect anything performance wise, but cheapens the look a bit.

6. The two included USB cables are very flexible and white colored. NOTE: Both USB cables were a really tight to fit in the USB socket's on the Fury miner's. Please be careful when plugging them in; you don't want to snap the port off.

7. The fan on the Fury is quieter then the fan on a GridSeed 5 chip. This is really good news; I was worried about running these in a bedroom.

8. Blue LED's illuminate when the software miner has connected to the Fury, and this lets you know it's hashing.

9. The cgminer that is available seems like it needs some work. I was having some issues with the cgminer sitting on shares for almost 30 seconds, and then dumping it as stale. The number of HW errors and rejects is also pretty high. I'm going to try it on my laptop and the Zenminer eventually.

10. At 328 Freq. I was seeing around ~1.3MH but I can't say for certain due to the cgminer issues I was experiencing. The average hashrate would drop during these issues; I'm going to try another pool.

11. The included power brick is most likely not going to last a year. I remember reading that GAW was offering a one year (looks like it's 6 months now) warranty on all of these miners. I really hope the power brick is included in that warranty. I'm going to place the brick's behind the Fury to try and catch some of the airflow.

12. The Fury itself does get slightly warm on the side of the heatsink. This makes sense seeing how it's dissipating about 40w of power. The good news is that the included fan / heatsink is able to keep it cool.

13. Having issues getting Zenminer to work; was able to setup the miner, but after logging out I couldn't log back in. In contact with Zenminer trying to fix this.

TLDR:Fury looks nice, includes everything you need to hash, power brick gets toasty hot, ~1.3MH, cgminer is a bit wonky on the computer I tried it on. I'll try it on my laptop and let you guys know if there's a difference in performance. Also, GAW did everything they said they'd do and the product is hashing faster then advertised. I just wish the power brick was better quality. Maybe in future shipments they might want to change it out; reduce warranty issues.  

How long have you left it running? I know that a lot of pools need between 30min - several hours before the listed hashrate is close to accurate.

Looks like registrations are back up. I'll be able to try it out in a few hours. 

1.56MH is really nice for the Fury unit. What frequency are you running it at, and what is your ratio of hardware error / accepted shares?

Edit: Also, is this with or without the Zenminer?

It seems like has been a bit of a rough launch; which is a bit disappointing seeing how it's the only way to update the firmware on the Generation A GAWminers.  

However, thank you though for keeping us updated and for posting the timeline. It makes it a lot more bearable knowing what is going on behind the scenes, and it sounds like you guys have a solid plan on getting the train back on the tracks.  

I see that they added the source code. Awesome.  

I wonder why though the manufacture / developer of that fork of cgminer started with such an old version?

Looks like DHL updated the status: With delivery courier - Looks like they're coming today; as long as I don't miss the delivery. I'm glad that GAW went with express delivery. 

Looks like they're still trying to get SSL working. I'm not sure why they would go live without this being setup properly.  

You can manually go to https://zenminer.com However, the signup page is broken when using SSL.


I'll hold off to sign up till they fix this.



Edit: Looks like the issue is due to them calling jquery over http instead of https. Same issue with the font they're using from Google.

Is there any contact information for Zenminer? I can't seem to locate an email address other than the developer's who registered the domain name. 

Thanks for posting these. One minor thing though; it seems that it's missing the source code and a copy of the license which is required to comply with the cgminer licensing (GPL). Just giving you guys a quick heads up.   That is unless I'm blind and missed them.  

It'll also be interesting to see how quickly other mining software developers add support.


Quick question. Will it only be possible to update the firmware on the miners through ZenMiner or will you also be releasing a standalone updater?

You'd be the Oprah of ASIC distributors. You get a car! And you get a car! . . .  

Looks like the DHL express shipping really is express. Last update had the package in Ohio. Should be here in about a day hopefully. Thanks for the free upgraded shipping.