I'm stumped.  I have a 2nd Gen Avalon and I can't get it mining. I have it hooked up to a Raspberry Pi using Minepeon via USB. The network card doesn't work. Minepeon was corrupted, so I reinstalled it. Dicked around with it for hours and finally came to the conclusion that my SD card was bad, because I was getting linux errors. I've got a new SD card and still have the same problem. When I plug in the miner and the RPi at the same time, it detects the miner and the fans surge. They then go high and low about 10 times and then they just sit at a low speed. It wants to mine, but something's wrong. Does this sound like a PSU problem? Or maybe it's just too hot? I'd suggest first installing the Avalon OpenWRT images and getting the rigs running. Once you have a working config you can get fancy and use minepeon etc. http://downloads.canaan-creative.com/software/avalon2/ |
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<snip> It still might not be fully compatible, I'll let you know in around 45mins  Yeah, so it doesn't work 'out-of-the-box', but I'm continuing to investigate if it's just a configuration issue (e.g. see if SPI ports can be polled) |
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I thought I'd mention that it seems BFGMiner will now support The "jingtian" miner, which is essentially the same thing as all the other A1 miner clones. I'm not sure if it is... JingTian has a microcontroller that IIRC they designed themselves. Either way, let me know how this works out. I think their controller is an Rpi (which you can see the end of here: http://www.jtminer.com/product/28nm-miner/#). This would would make sense as they are probably just using innosilicon's driver as the rest of the A1 clone miner manufacturers. It still might not be fully compatible, I'll let you know in around 45mins |
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I thought I'd mention that it seems BFGMiner will now support The "jingtian" miner, which is essentially the same thing as all the other A1 miner clones.
I'm going to check it out, but it seems we finally have open source firmware and can avoid using the stock driver (and the other potentially nefarious crap which may come with it)
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Great job luke - finally out from under the constraints of the stock firmware. |
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We found the machines are sending back encrypted packets back to a Chinese IP address, the packets are encrypted so we are not sure weather its sending back hashes or somethig more sinister.
We have re-wrote the lketc dragon miner software our self and found the units to be hashing 10% more, so likely stealing hashes from our power.
i will release more proof and our clean dragon miner software after more tests.
I am in The Netherlands at the moment, I can't make an image of the latest firmware of the Dragon miners that are password protected. Can someone upload an image that is password protected? I need it ASAP, I found a Dutch sotware engineer who can reverse engineer it. I will tip him if he finds the password and stuff that don't belong in that image. Good luck to your engineer, I wish him luck and he's going to need it |
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How do you know how the s3 sounds? Its not supposed to start shipping till the 10th.
Was just going to ask about that. I don't even see an S3 on the website. The S2 is priced over $1700, which is quite expensive I think for just 1TH these days. I also heard it has a big where you can't change the root/login password. Is that correct? I'm looking for a rig I can run at home, around 1TH that isn't really loud. I have a KNC Jupiter and that runs practically silent. I do also have an Spondoolie SP10 but that's being hosted. Too loud and too much heat. Also have my eye on that Dragon 1TH rig, which is pretty cheap. Anyone with an S2, do you like it? I have an S2 of the last batch. So far it has been quite solid (albeit only 5-6 days) at ~1th and very quiet. I have one from the first batch and I'm happy with it - aside from the hassle of needing to fix it after shipping. It runs well, and it runs loud - slightly louder than a dragon but much, much louder than my jupiter. Quieter than an Avalon3 though, but so is my car |
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okay your cat 5 wire is direct connect pc jack to s-1 jack ? Yes, is there a specific type of cat 5 cable that I am supposed to use? I am using crossover cable. next if it is you type in 192.168.1.99 and no connect? No connect, that is correct. do an ip search use advanced ip I am showing nothing for 192.168.1.99 whenever I perform the second scan, after powering on the miner and directly connecting it to the PC. This S1 miner does not appear to be broadcasting anything. Use Wireshark to have a look at the eth port between miner and pc. You also might want to try a straight patch cable I'm mobile atm I'll be back later to see if you got it sorted |
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Try disconnecting then reconnecting the cable that goes from the controller board to each blade. I had one shipped to me with one of these cables loose and it made it appear initially as if one of the blades was non-responsive. Re-seating the cables brought the second blade back to life.
1. Turn off
2. Redo cables
3. Turn on
4. Cross fingers.
don't do it this way. this is last resort .can't find a shot with system this is one with network go to the left of network and click system then click the reboot option That's a little melodramatic and could lead the OP astray. The reboot option in OpenWRT just reboots Luci (renders the webpages in OpenWRT) and toggles the reset pin on the micro. This means that other components (e.g. the USB hub, the switch) could remain in a 'bad' state which could have been cleared if the entire device was power cycled. Elaramus had it right. I'd also suggest swapping the data cable from one blade to the next (if this hasn't been done already) to attempt to isolate the problem. edit: and no, you shouldn't lose settings |
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I don't think it's used, it's just a spare USB connector provided by the on the TP link router (TL-WR703N? which hosts openwrt/cgminer). It might be functional, but I never tried before ripping them out to replace with with beaglebones/RPIs.
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The more recent KNC firmwares have some parameters to set in the UI to control access to the box (after several customers were hacked and their machines hijacked). I don't know if they are just leveraging the built in API functionality in cgminer (e.g. api-allow) or if they have another solution.
"api-listen": true
EDIT: looks like you're missing 'api-listen'
Hi Jimrome I have api-listen. Was a copy failure. Why are you using multicast? edit: and you have 4028 as both your api and multicast port? |
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Sorry for not having update this thread yet.
I have taken more pictures, I need to shrink them first and add text.
I will do it tomorrow, I am freaky busy with other stuff to.
At the moment I have put the Avalon 2T miner in an isolated room and let the heat build up and see how it reacts on heat.
The fans are spinning wild under this condition and hashrate drops to 1.6-1.7 T.
It's about 60 dB under this condition.
If you buy an Avalon 2T, make sure you are not in a warm country or have the AC on, otherwise it won't hash at full speed at your poolside.
How does the Dragon 1T run in comparison under these conditions? The dragons manage much better - although they are hot bastards too. It would actually be worse, but the avalon (in house) designed modules are simply excellent in terms of airflow and mechanical design - and also have a nasty little delta fan that shrieks like Katyuska rockets as it approaches its max of 9kRPM The 3rd party avalon stuff is garbage. |
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Hi there.
I'm trying for some time with various monitoring tools, such as CryptoGlance, to observe all my KNC-Jupiter.
But it does not work.
Looks like, the API get no output to the network.
I use windows system.
In Jupiter I have the following cgconfig:
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"api-list": true,
"api-mcast": true,
"api-mcast-port": "4028",
"api-port": "4028",
"expiry": "120",
"failover-only": true,
"log", "5",
"no-pool-disable": true,
"queue": "1",
"scan-time": "60",
"shares": "0",
"kernel-path": "/ usr / bin"
"api-allow": "W: 127.0.0.1, W: 192.168.90.0/24"
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Has anyone ever done or knows of the error?
Or someone knows monitoring tool that works with the KNC-Jupiters?
greeting
Tinu
The more recent KNC firmwares have some parameters to set in the UI to control access to the box (after several customers were hacked and their machines hijacked). I don't know if they are just leveraging the built in API functionality in cgminer (e.g. api-allow) or if they have another solution. At any rate, this is my working config: { "pools": [ { "url": "stratum+tcp://xxxxx", "user": "xxxx", "pass": "asdf" }, { "url": "stratum+tcp:/xxxxx", "user": "xxxx", "pass": "asdf" }, { "url": "stratum+tcp://xxxxx", "user": "xxxx", "pass": "asdf" }, { "url": "", "user": "", "pass": "" } ], "api-allow": "W:127.0.0.1,W:10.0.1/24", "api-listen": true} EDIT: looks like you're missing 'api-listen' |
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Got your pm and images.
You cannot connect an ant miner S1 directly to the computers Ethernet Port via a Straight Cat5 cable.
The antminer is some kind of a computer and two computers cannot connect directly via Straight Cable.
For connecting two computer with a Hub, Router or Switch you can use Straight Ethernet cable and for direct connection you need Crossover Ethernet Cable.
That isn't always true anymore, most NICs have "automatic ports" (Auto MDI-X) that can adapt to function over a straight through cable. The whole idea of crossover cables is not relevant to 1000baseT connections either. |
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<snip> I would love a replacement for the Pi. SD cards are now my hated enemy.
Just looked at the specs for the integrated flash, I'm not sure you'd like these much more (15Mb/s Read, 9Mb/s write, 100 ms maximum block read, 250 ms max block write. That's dire, there are SD cards better than that). But there's some kind of boot mode jumper on the board though, I wonder what the modes are. That's more than fast enough. The problem with sd cards is their reliability (or their general lack thereof when hosting an OS for the RPi). |
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I would love a replacement for the Pi. SD cards are now my hated enemy.
This. It would be F'all to port cgminer etc. via crosscompiling or even compiling on target - that's a non-issue. |
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Well since they are no longer in stock and are pretty much obsolete, I will share some tidbits.
That's good of you. Can't wait. The bitburners are by far the best asic miner ever so far, not one problem and ran for months between reboots at almost double their default settings. As far as the s1's I found the early units from last year oc easily to 200 and have been running them non stop with no failures, the latter units are much more touchy in the settings and for the most part sit at 190ish, no added heat sinks fans or any other crap, they run up to 65 deg and don't care.
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what?
they need to have a high flow rate. that's measured in cfm. (cubic feet per minute) Fort he ant you want absolute minimum 70cfm but I think generally over 100cfm is recommended. I am running 90cfm fans. many case fans are only 30cfm or so. Yes, I understand flow rate. As important as flow rate when it comes to these applications is static pressure capability. AFAIK bitmain shipped with only fans capable of at least 130CFM, although many would never achieve that figure due to the poor thermal control of the miner firmware or because the fans were worn out from extensive "testing". I guess I was confused as to why you wrote that "the problem is knowing what cfm they are, no guarantees."? Buying these industrial fans isn't as much of a crap shoot, and the CFM and other parameters (e.g. static pressure) are all stated - and they are expected to meet these figures by major manufacturers (e.g. dell, who uses the part I pasted earlier in servers). |
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<snip>
Last batch (bought may 2014) brand new, overclocked at 400~406 (depending on my mood and testing) running of a dell 2950 psu and sucking around 430w at the wall. All asic have heatsinks as do the vregs.
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Uptime gh/S GH/s Avg HW Error Rejected fan speed temp Mhz X's
0d 1h 8m 11s 209.46 205.78 0 1.0044% 4.7928 1620 1620 42 406 0X
I found the biggest difference makers were heatsinks on the vregs (on the back, opposite the asics) and fans suited to purpose. Speaking of which - why would you go with a 90CFM fan on the back? I don't think I ran a single fan under 130CFM+ front and back. I ditched all my S1s in the spring, but I'll see if I can dig up some stats . I will say that the quality coming out of their factory is sh!t, some miners would be ace and others complete dogs. The cynic in me suspects that they would pull the worst miners from their farm stock and sell those out for each batch, pulling only from new stock if need be. it's just what I could get at a reasonable price. it does alright for what it is. originally I had one in my case and bought a couple more. they only cost me around $30au where the 100+ cfm fans are up to $60AU each. Wow - industrial DC fans are generally cheaper than PC fans, and should cost nowhere near that much. Try ebay: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/NMB-Dell-Optiplex-GX270-Case-Fan-DC-Brushless-Model-3615KL-04W-B86-12V-2-10A-/181444763166?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a3ef35e1ethe problem is knowing what cfm they are, no guarantees. what? |
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