Old ASIC Question Bounty for Answer

[paramind22]

I asked this question quietly at the end of an old thread somewhere but didn't get an answer.  I'll offer a bounty of 20 PascalCoins and a Pascal Account, which is a newer coin with some unique features.  Perhaps people don't want to embarrass themselves by answering this question.  I have a bunch of gridseed orbs I want to mine some different sha256 coins with and they will not go into Sha256 speed.  They are stuck in scypt hashing rates.  I have seen at least one of them go into Sha256 mode before.  I also mine with antminers so I know these things are almost a waste of time, but it's fun for me to play around with different miners.  I am using cgminer.

Here is an example batch file:

cgminer -o stratum+tcp://peercoin.ecoining.com:3336 -u name.user2 -p x --gridseed-options=baud=115200,freq=800,chips=5 --hotplug 5

[dsattler]

There are several cgminer versions out there. Which one are you using?

This is the original: https://github.com/gridseed/usb-miner/
This one seems to be newer: https://github.com/dmaxl/cgminer/

I once had 5 modded gridseed running but only for scrypt! 

[dsattler]

This old article from the cryptomining blog could also be helpful:
http://cryptomining-blog.com/1711-updated-guide-on-how-to-mine-both-btc-and-ltc-on-gridseed-5-chip-gc3355-asic/

[paramind22]

There are several cgminer versions out there. Which one are you using?

This is the original: https://github.com/gridseed/usb-miner/
This one seems to be newer: https://github.com/dmaxl/cgminer/

I once had 5 modded gridseed running but only for scrypt! 

Thanks for your responses.  Got to do the day job stuff so can't focus on this much but I'm using
cgminer-3-7-2-gridseed-windows.

I was thinking if I tried one of those dual mode set ups for it that might force it into sha256 mode.  No reason why not to use them for dual mode. 

I also did a screen capture from a video that had a bunch of different batch file switches that I wasn't using.