why do i seem to be stuck at 98% "scanning transaction history" after a fresh install of 0.88.1 onto Ubuntu 13.10 with bitcoind in the background?

16GB RAM, 64 bit, 750 GB SSD.

oh, i get it.

your plan is working out well.

the further pm's fall, the richer you become.

any response on the rma to return heatsinked defective h boards?

so how do you "anticipate" the amount of counterclockwise turning of the trimpot nut needed to decrease voltage?

it was confusing b/c it didn't fail outright.  the rig would start out hashing around 300ish, then drift down to sub 100's.  then it wouldn't boot up at all with just a red light.  originally i thought it was the sd card as above posts will indicate but fortunately i have new raspi's laying around.  the fact that the card booted up on the new raspi told me it wasn't the card.  plus, it told me that the ip address was overlapping with one of the other rigs thus explaining why both went to 0 when trying to boot this one up.

inexplicably it started working again but still below 100's.  b/c of this erratic behavior and the fact that just earlier had given me a red light, i decided to swap out the raspi.  sure enough, now i'm hashing mid 400's during the day.  it even hit 640 last night on ozcoin!    these BF's, in general, are definitely doing much better at nighttime when it gets cold here.

it's a bite, at least for me, b/c there are so many possibilities where things can go wrong with these fragile units.  is it the chips, h boards, m boards, regulator, chainminer, or raspi?  my avalons, in contrast, are much more stable and consistent.

on a side note, has anyone noticed ozcoin is showing higher hashrates than what is displaying locally in chainminer?  are other pools doing the same?

DOWN

Gold collapsing.  Bitcoin UP.

just to throw more crap variables into the mix; i had a bad Raspi.

bad enough only to take hashing sub 100's for several days making it all the more confusing.  thank goodness it fully failed allowing me to figure it wasn't so much the boards.  inserted a new one and am at least now up in the 400's now.

Chainminer doesn't match my pool readings either.  ugh.

turns out the sd cards weren't corrupted.

i was getting overlapping ip addresses.  i have my router set on dhcp but i've noticed that altho each raspi is supposed to let itself be assigned a new address each time on connection w/o any overlap from other BF's, some time it does and some times it doesn't.

i used one of my spare raspi's lying around to figure out that the cards weren't corrupted and determine that the ip's were in fact overlapping.

it's definitely an annoying problem given all the resets/reboots i'm having to do given the prevalence of sub par H board hashing.

.05 BTC to the guy who helps me reimage 2 corrupt SD cards back to latest Chainminer.

pm me.

i actually have another SD card with a good image on it so it should just be a matter of copying it over.

This already exists in essence.

You can plug an Avalon directly into your router and mine though it has an internal router that acts like a controller.

Also, psheppard  made an implementation of cgminer that installed directly onto a router that allowed direct gpu mining. I don't know whether he's made an asic implementation of that.

while embedding an asic within a router is definitely a great idea, the economics of how you proposed it are probably unworkable.

you'd be better off just looking at it as a low power mining device much like the USB miners available now.  have all these routers pointed at the pool of their choice mining away.  

other ways to monetize a router based asic would be to make them anonymized Tor nodes that get paid by the amount of band width offered as this is what the Tor network desperately needs and would make the Bitcoin network all that much more useful and desirable.  also, allowing these nodes to form a mesh network where passerby's could tap into the network for routine internet access or to perform BTC tx's would be icing on the cake.

wow, a Bitcoin Bear proposing such a bullish idea.  is Bitcoin bigger than we think?!

better yet, read the book.  it's good.

according to bfgminer readme, it says there is no thermal shutdown regulation.  do you have heatsinks installed?

can someone link me to directions on how to make a backup image of the SD card onto a new one?  these look to be of poor quality and i think i have a corrupted one.

i did.  several times.  finally got it to come back up but at suboptimal rates.

these things are really finicky.  once you get them running at optimal rates i wouldn't fiddle with them.  i'm learning to appreciate my avalons coupled with cgminer.

also, it appears to me that the stratum proxy within chainminer does not interface well with a local instance of stratum on one's server when solo mining.  so i'm forced to pool  if i get around to it i may install bfgminer or even cgminer to try and solo once again.  

arghhhh.  these things are really sensitive.

just tried redirecting to a pool and needed a reboot.  now not working at all. 

any suggestions when one gets zeros across all slots?