Canary how do we handle bad boards I have one with a bad chain in it also. Hashing at 181.  Also sidehack sent you a pm on worker.10. I was also able to get the device to work on slush running it through BFG Miner for windows.  |
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Cool. I wonder if slush would want to talk to the guy I've got working on it? We've got a slush proxy modified to truncate the extranonce2 length to pool-requested size, but haven't yet determined what issues there are with non-slush pool compatibility.
I sent you a pm with the email they sent me with the ticket number etc. Feel free to pass it on to him. |
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I've actually only assembled 19 of the 31 so far, been also busy running new circuits and troubleshooting the pool compatibility stuff. I'll start the rest tonight and finish up tomorrow though. Saturday will be a much-needed day off, I think I've worked every day so far this month.
By the way slush set up a isolated ip for me to point one at so they could capture the errors to see if it is something easy they can fix on their end. I asked them to leave it up till Friday afternoon so I could get one put together and point there. If I have still problems tomorrow I will pm you with it if you think you would have time to point one at it. Thanks again. |
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Set each board's DIP switches to a unique value. What could be happening is every board is addressed the same, so when the controller polls the boards it's getting collisions like mad and errors into a reset. The easiest thing with 4 boards on one controller is flip a different switch on each board.
Thanks, I figured it would be something simple I was missing. By the way after putting that thing together will all the screws I decided you must have the patience of Jobe. I don't know how you did 30 of those without going crazy. If you expand your hosting in near future drop me a pm I would be interested. Thanks again for the quick answer. |
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Canary, sidehack, FC or anyone else that has successfully got one of these up...Help PleaseHave it together with power to all 8 connections. Power to controller. 3 white cables going from 1st board left connector to 2nd board left connector. 2nd cable going from 2nd board right connector to 3rd board left connector. 3rd cable going from 3rd board right connector to 4th board left connector. Controller going to board 1 right connector. I did the megaflash but not sure it updated all the boards. The controller will drop network about every 20 secs or so with all the 3 lights flashing on and off and the network connection light will go off and it drops. Managed to work in between drops and changed network info to my actual network. When I log in between the drops the status page only shows one board. Entered ghash just to test and unit isn't hashing. Is there a special way to hook up cables as well as controller cable? Was I suppose to do something with dip switches I left as they were. Here is a pic of my main screen in between network drops: 
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Pool support doesn't monitor this thread you will have to submit a support ticket to them on pool inquires. http://support.bitcoin.cz/DefaultI have been here since March and we have lucky periods and unlucky periods, it all averages out over time. This pool isn't for the miner that wants consistent payouts over a given length of time it isn't how it works. The lucky runs where we knock out 10 plus blocks in a day is what makes this a fun pool to mine, it will pick back up and it does average out over time. |
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Canary, thanks for another great GB. Sorry that you had some issues that were out of your control, but you busted your ass to make sure everything was smooth on your end of the transaction.
Well said. +1 btw mine show delivery for tomorrow. |
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I only found out about Bitcoin a month ago, I only have 2 S3s for experimental purpose, I am not expecting them to ROI (ordered late (batch 6) and bought coins while they were 600 a pop). using them as heater for appartment, it is cold here already - 18 degrees during day outside. yes, tried power supply swap. tried moving the units apart, using different power outlets, swapping pci-e ports (now they run all 4 pci-e ports connected) and what not. the hash rate does sometimes (like the one 30 hour period I mentioned) drop 10% which is below the expected rate. thank you for looking into it, I think this needs engineer to find the cause of the problem  here is someone reporting same behavior: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=671189.3900https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=671189.msg8169759#msg8169759edit: this is offtopic anyway, my question was - does restarting cgminer every 1 hour cause problems with pool shares? Yes. |
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Shipment arrived. Thank you Canary.
At some point there was talk of a thermal pad for these. Can I assume past or pad is not needed?
Nevermind. Found three in one box. So I am guessing still required. Thanks. |
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friedcat updated his post to include info on how to use bfgminer as a proxy then connect to any pool of your choice.
I have some spare Pis on hand. anyone who wishes to add a Pi to their order, let me know.
link please? In the post after that I posted a solution ckolivas worked up for me using his own proxy software, which runs linux native. I haven't fully tested its limitations yet, and I haven't tested BFG proxy at all, but once I get the rest of these tubes assembled I'll do some more work on both options and post results. Did they come with the thermal pads, if not what did your use? |
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friedcat updated his post to include info on how to use bfgminer as a proxy then connect to any pool of your choice.
I have some spare Pis on hand. anyone who wishes to add a Pi to their order, let me know.
Also for those not familiar with Linux BFG 4.7 does come in a windows version. I did install it and was able to point one of my S3's to my computer running it and it did connect and mine at Slush's pool. I am going to try it with a tube just as soon as it arrives but as FC advises BFG 4.7 will work I don't see a reason why the windows version 4.7 wouldn't work also. sidehack is going to try later if he has time with an actual tube. Check FC's thread post for updates. |
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I did get BFG to work as a proxy using my s3 as a test on Slush's pool. I downloaded the windows version 4.7 and ran the below cmd line. I just pointed the miner to my computers ip address.
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cd Bit/BFG
bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 -u xxx.worker2 -p xxxx --stratum-port 3333 --set-device PXY:diff=825
I don't have the actual tube yet but BFG does work as a proxy as sorts so I will try it when it arrives. Maybe sidehack can download BFG 4.7 and give it a try when he gets a chance.
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My tube arrives tomorrow. From reading this thread am I correct in my current assumption that If I don't get a ras pi or Linux machine I have very limited pool choices ie 2 pools? There is no windows or direct mining solution yet?
BFG 4.7 is windows compatible, it is in the software thread. I am going to give it a try with the command line FC posted above when mine come in. Here is the cmd file I made to launch it: Cd\ cd Bit/BFG bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.bitcoin.cz -u xxxxx.worker9 -p xxxxxx--stratum-port 3333 --set-device PXY:diff=825 Software thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=626361.0 |
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everything has shipped out... a few labels are still outstanding. when I get them your units will head out.
Great job Canary! Thanks for getting these out as quick as you did. You're welcome. By the way, I do have extra units still available. how much it wil cost to ship in philippines 1pcs only?? can i?? thank you You will have to figure that out yourself as you handle the shipping and send him the labels already addressed to yourself. |
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So, news. I talked to ckolivas earlier and he helped me out. I directed a Tube through his hardware and he tracked down the issue. For one, there was indeed exactly the problem of the extranonce2 field always returning 4 bytes (I had mistakenly supposed 8 bytes but after looking at some source when it says '8 chars' in the error it means hex characters, two per byte) when the pool requests something other than 4 bytes. He also noted a lot of corrupt hex in the packets and it looks like the code was generally a botch job designed to work on their own pool, or maybe just ghash, whatever. In any case, not very good for actual customers. So he patched the proxy in ckpool ( https://bitbucket.org/ckolivas/ckpool) to truncate the extranonce2 and generally fix what was going wrong. I've got an instance testing now with a functional tube and so far it's looking good. At least, it works with ozcoin and slush that I've tested so far. Pools that don't use BFG software, best we can figure. sidehack make sure I am understanding this right as I am not as technical as you are: To mine on Slush for example I need to download CK's proxy and run the tubes through the proxy on a linux machine or as FC explained above purchase a Raspberry and make the described changes and basically proxy through it??? Thanks in advance. |
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Did everyone else get their shipping confirmed? Mine hasn't changed  I did but when I created USPS labels I checked the email update option. Mine is on its way. Thanks Canary, I imagine it was a nightmare separating and sorting all those units. You must definitely be a man of patience. |
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Has anyone contacted FC about the situation? I emailed help@bitquan.com from FC's post with the info that sidehack posted. I also turned in a support ticket to Slush's pool to see if it is an easy fix on their end or if they had any advice. |
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I also turned in a support ticket to slush's pool to see if it is an easy fix on their end or if they had any suggestions.
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So basically right now they only work with Ghash and probably Discus Fish? I can deal with a small shipping delay but being able to mine only at the Ghash, not cool. Has anyone contacted FC about the situation? I emailed help@bitquan.com from FC's post with the info that sidehack posted. |
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