GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread

[kipper01]

Also apparently the forum's getting better at timing out when trying to post replies and then not showing them next time I refresh the page. Sorry to say the same thing twice but on my end neither of 'em went through. Last thing I saw before right now was kipper's screenshot.

I was having same issues last night when posting.  I thought it was just me!

Oh and thanks for the sticks!  I am enjoying them.

[edonkey]

I'm seeing something odd regarding hardware errors. I've got two sticks running at stock 150 speed on two separate powered hubs connected to an RPi.

This is in an air conditioned server closet, with Arctic fans blowing on the sticks. They probably don't need the fans yet, but I had them in place already from a previous stick rig. Power comes from a UPS/PDU.

Typically the hardware errors are very low. But sometimes they blossom suddenly. For example, one unit had a one or two hardware errors after running for over a week. I checked this morning and now it has 40. Same thing happened with the other stick earlier in the week. It went for days maybe a hardware error or 2 total, then I noticed it had 70. After that burst, it's only added 9 hardware errors in the last few days.

The thing is that nothing is changing on my side. The power and temp should very consistent. I've been pointing at the same pool. No software updates.

The only thing I can think of is that the sticks are on the top on a gorilla rack, with some Mac Pro build systems a few feet below them. At night at least one of the build systems fires up and runs full blast for a few hours. Maybe this increases ambient heat enough to cause hardware errors? If so, why aren't both sticks affected at the same time? Also, several days go by without a burst of HW errors, but builds happen every day.

The total percentage of hardware errors to accepts is very low at 0.02%. So from a pragmatic aspect, this really isn't a problem. It's just strange how bursty they hare. I haven't seen that with other hardware before.

Still seeing hardware error bursts. The unit that was at 70 HW errors yesterday is now at 119 this morning. The other one is still at 40. Strange.

Maybe once my Y splitters come in I'll try increasing the voltage a bit before increasing the frequency.

[notlist3d]

Got my production unit today in the mail.  Thanks sidehack and novak!

Below is setup I will be working on today.   It has the original test black unit, reviewer gold unit, and finnaly the great looking green production unit.

Have been playing with them basically it was plug and play.   I had the hub sorted out before I received my unit so that helped out.

I am running a RPI 1  B with Raspbian and normal cgminer 4.9.2 set up for Icarus.  It detected it and has ran for around a day now.  So the test stick, reviewer stick, and production stick are all working in this.

[Mikestang]

My 4 compacs showed up yesterday and I'm having some problems.

First, no hub with bfgminer using .bat = bfgminer.exe -o [pool] -u [user] -p [pass] --set compac:clock=x0b83

1) bfgminer530 will not see the sticks on my old WinXP box.  Neither starting bfg with them (or just 1) plugged in nor hot plugging while bfg is running wakes them up.  The program just sits there and asks me to add hardware.

2) bfgminer530 on my Win7 box sees the sticks, however I get comms errors.  Here is just 1 stick:


3) when I plug a 2nd stick in the errors happen twice as often:



So I tried cgminer-gekko to see if I would have better luck.  I cannot use cgminer on my Win7 box because zadig doesn't work on that machine.  So on a powered hub with cgminer-gekko using .bat = cgminer.exe -o [pool] -u [user] -p [pass] --compac-freq 150

1) a single stick works perfectly, no errors

2) edit - new usb hub and ran 2 sticks on xp laptop just fine, old hub was crap, will update soon >2 sticksplug in a second stick and all goes to hell, LIBSUB_ERROR out the wazoo and both sticks only hash around 2GH.  I didn't try more than 2 sticks.


Any ideas what's going on here?  The errors on the Win7 box are very confusing, I did not expect any issues there.  I'm thinking most of the fail on the XP machine is probably just the fact that my old WinXP box is old so I'm not too concerned there (gotta build a new computer one day...), but I can run 6 nanofury usb sticks on it at the same time no problem.  In fact I can run the 6 nanofury sticks in one instance of cgminer and 1 compac stick in cgminer-gekko at the same time (pictured below), zero issues, so I'm at a loss why more than 1 compac grinds it to a halt.
http://i60.tinypic.com/28vxerk.jpg

[notlist3d]

I suggest trying a live usb of Debian - https://www.debian.org/.   With live usb you can run off a usb stick and not even have to do a install on HD.

But I found windows to be a pain with drivers I used 7 and 8.  Went to debian and no issues.   Then I went to RPI and raspbian (which is built off debian) and still working great.   

With linux just no messing with the drivers and very very nice.

[kipper01]

My 4 compacs showed up yesterday and I'm having some problems.

First, no hub with bfgminer using .bat = bfgminer.exe -o [pool] -u [user] -p [pass] --set compac:clock=x0b83

1) bfgminer530 will not see the sticks on my old WinXP box.  Neither starting bfg with them (or just 1) plugged in nor hot plugging while bfg is running wakes them up.  The program just sits there and asks me to add hardware.

2) bfgminer530 on my Win7 box sees the sticks, however I get comms errors.  Here is just 1 stick:


3) when I plug a 2nd stick in the errors happen twice as often:



So I tried cgminer-gekko to see if I would have better luck.  I cannot use cgminer on my Win7 box because zadig doesn't work on that machine.  So on a powered hub with cgminer-gekko using .bat = cgminer.exe -o [pool] -u [user] -p [pass] --compac-freq 150

1) a single stick works perfectly, no errors

2) plug in a second stick and all goes to hell, LIBSUB_ERROR out the wazoo and both sticks only hash around 2GH.  I didn't try more than 2 sticks.


Any ideas what's going on here?  The errors on the Win7 box are very confusing, I did not expect any issues there.  I'm thinking most of the fail on the XP machine is probably just the fact that my old WinXP box is old so I'm not too concerned there (gotta build a new computer one day...), but I can run 6 nanofury usb sticks on it at the same time no problem.  In fact I can run the 6 nanofury sticks in one instance of cgminer and 1 compac stick in cgminer-gekko at the same time (pictured below), zero issues, so I'm at a loss why more than 1 compac grinds it to a halt.

For me Win 10 definitely took some errort to get working.  Be sure to run zadig as administrator.  I plugged in 1 stick at a time and made sure zadig used the correct driver.  Is you batch file specifying a frequency ...
cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u 1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr --compac-freq 150

[kipper01]

Working on Windows 10.  Will play with them more on Sunday!

if you get a chance let me know your mobo and if the sticks stay at that speed.

so far you seem to be doing a lot better then I am on your win-10 build

Motherboard is: ECS H77H2-M3(1.0) LGA 1155 Intel H77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

and I am using Dipo Electronic 10 Port 10A USB 2.0 Hub + 12V 5A Power Adapter

[Mikestang]

I suggest trying a live usb of Debian - https://www.debian.org/.   With live usb you can run off a usb stick and not even have to do a install on HD.

So your suggestion is for me to run another OS?  Hmm, that seems like quite a reach just to get a couple stick miners hashing.  My XP machine is my main computer, I use it for a lot of stuff including my bitcoin node, not sure I want to go messing with additional operating systems...

Be sure to run zadig as administrator.  I plugged in 1 stick at a time and made sure zadig used the correct driver.  Is you batch file specifying a frequency ...
cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u 1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr --compac-freq 150

I understand how to use zadig, that is not an issue here.  As shown in my post I am specifying a frequency.

[notlist3d]

I suggest trying a live usb of Debian - https://www.debian.org/.   With live usb you can run off a usb stick and not even have to do a install on HD.

So your suggestion is for me to run another OS?  Hmm, that seems like quite a reach just to get a couple stick miners hashing.  My XP machine is my main computer, I use it for a lot of stuff including my bitcoin node, not sure I want to go messing with additional operating systems...

Be sure to run zadig as administrator.  I plugged in 1 stick at a time and made sure zadig used the correct driver.  Is you batch file specifying a frequency ...
cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u 1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr --compac-freq 150

I understand how to use zadig, that is not an issue here.  As shown in my post I am specifying a frequency.

It honestly is not a lot of work to try it on live usb then you know if it works.  Zadig just is a pain and seems not to be perfect.  Debian no zadig to mess around with.

I suggest at least trying it once see what it does.

[Luke-Jr]

I have a little info for Luke-Jr: My use of -d? -D produced about 20K bytes of output that I haven't tried to post here. I'll find a way to provide the whole file. I am however providing the last few lines which may provide a clue:

 [2015-09-17 18:30:05] lowlevel_scan: Found vcom device at com:12 (path=\\.\COM12, vid=0000, pid=0000, manuf=(null), prod=(null), serial=(null))
 [2015-09-17 18:30:05] lowlevel_scan: Found vcom device at com:11 (path=\\.\COM11, vid=0000, pid=0000, manuf=(null), prod=(null), serial=(null))
 [2015-09-17 18:30:05] lowlevel_scan: Found vcom device at com:10 (path=\\.\COM10, vid=0000, pid=0000, manuf=(null), prod=(null), serial=(null))
 [2015-09-17 18:30:05] Devices detected:

What's noteworthy about these is that COM10-COM12 are the device names that Windows assigned to the sticks. I can see them in a Control Panel display, and they are found as "AMU" if I add them using the \\.\COMxx path name after bfgminer is started.

One thing I just thought of: This system is actually my work laptop, and it's Windows 7 Enterprise. I am however NOT the Administrator of this box. I wonder if perhaps device detection is impacted by that?

Thanks for your interest.

Hmm, seems like getting the device info failed.
A full log would be possibly helpful to figure out why.
If hotplugging just works, this suggests it should be possible to get it...

[philipma1957]

I suggest trying a live usb of Debian - https://www.debian.org/.   With live usb you can run off a usb stick and not even have to do a install on HD.

So your suggestion is for me to run another OS?  Hmm, that seems like quite a reach just to get a couple stick miners hashing.  My XP machine is my main computer, I use it for a lot of stuff including my bitcoin node, not sure I want to go messing with additional operating systems...

Be sure to run zadig as administrator.  I plugged in 1 stick at a time and made sure zadig used the correct driver.  Is you batch file specifying a frequency ...
cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u 1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr --compac-freq 150

I understand how to use zadig, that is not an issue here.  As shown in my post I am specifying a frequency.

It honestly is not a lot of work to try it on live usb then you know if it works.  Zadig just is a pain and seems not to be perfect.  Debian no zadig to mess around with.

I suggest at least trying it once see what it does.

never ran debian  but I went to the site looks easy  enough.

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-compat.en.html

The current Debian GNU/Linux release, 8, contains a complete, binary distribution for the following architectures:

amd64: this covers systems based on AMD 64bit CPUs with AMD64 extension and all Intel CPUs with EM64T extension, and a common 64bit userspace.


my question is simple.

I have an

intel i5 2500t
intel i5 6600k
intel i7 4790
intel i5 4570t

I can use any of these.  so how do I check for the EM64T extension to decide which one to use?

Answer is here:

http://www.intel.com/support/processors/xeon/sb/cs-012580.htm



Q. Which processors support Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology?
A. Since Q4 of 2006, Intel® EM64T has been supported in all mobile, desktop and server processors that are based on the Intel® Core™ Microarchitecture.


So I am going to do a debian  with the i5 2500T 

[sidehack]

If it helps, the machine cgminer-gekko was compiled on for initial testing, and which is being used for all the Compac testing before sticks are packed for shipping, is an old Pentium D unit running Debian 7.

[Jake36]

I suggest trying a live usb of Debian - https://www.debian.org/.   With live usb you can run off a usb stick and not even have to do a install on HD.

So your suggestion is for me to run another OS?  Hmm, that seems like quite a reach just to get a couple stick miners hashing.  My XP machine is my main computer, I use it for a lot of stuff including my bitcoin node, not sure I want to go messing with additional operating systems...

Be sure to run zadig as administrator.  I plugged in 1 stick at a time and made sure zadig used the correct driver.  Is you batch file specifying a frequency ...
cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u 1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr --compac-freq 150

I understand how to use zadig, that is not an issue here.  As shown in my post I am specifying a frequency.

It honestly is not a lot of work to try it on live usb then you know if it works.  Zadig just is a pain and seems not to be perfect.  Debian no zadig to mess around with.

I suggest at least trying it once see what it does.

never ran debian  but I went to the site looks easy  enough.

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-compat.en.html

The current Debian GNU/Linux release, 8, contains a complete, binary distribution for the following architectures:

amd64: this covers systems based on AMD 64bit CPUs with AMD64 extension and all Intel CPUs with EM64T extension, and a common 64bit userspace.


my question is simple.

I have an

intel i5 2500t
intel i5 6600k
intel i7 4790
intel i5 4570t

I can use any of these.  so how do I check for the EM64T extension to decide which one to use?

Answer is here:

http://www.intel.com/support/processors/xeon/sb/cs-012580.htm



Q. Which processors support Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology?
A. Since Q4 of 2006, Intel® EM64T has been supported in all mobile, desktop and server processors that are based on the Intel® Core™ Microarchitecture.


So I am going to do a debian  with the i5 2500T 

I think you'll like it, it will take some getting use too, that's why I've got the main computer setup in a dual boot with Win 7 and Mint 17 (got a few things in 7 that I still use), but some times I might go a week or more between firing up 7 (well except now that I got the sticks, still trying to figure out putty on mint). Some time in the future, Win 7 (Microsoft) is gone completely.

After about the first 2 months or so with Mint, I put Ubuntu on two old XP laptops (that were no good for Win 7), getting some more life out of them now and saved myself from having to buy a new laptop (but I know sooner or later I'll need a new one and the first thing is switching it to a linux setup).

[notlist3d]

I suggest trying a live usb of Debian - https://www.debian.org/.   With live usb you can run off a usb stick and not even have to do a install on HD.

So your suggestion is for me to run another OS?  Hmm, that seems like quite a reach just to get a couple stick miners hashing.  My XP machine is my main computer, I use it for a lot of stuff including my bitcoin node, not sure I want to go messing with additional operating systems...

Be sure to run zadig as administrator.  I plugged in 1 stick at a time and made sure zadig used the correct driver.  Is you batch file specifying a frequency ...
cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u 1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr --compac-freq 150

I understand how to use zadig, that is not an issue here.  As shown in my post I am specifying a frequency.

It honestly is not a lot of work to try it on live usb then you know if it works.  Zadig just is a pain and seems not to be perfect.  Debian no zadig to mess around with.

I suggest at least trying it once see what it does.

never ran debian  but I went to the site looks easy  enough.

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-compat.en.html

The current Debian GNU/Linux release, 8, contains a complete, binary distribution for the following architectures:

amd64: this covers systems based on AMD 64bit CPUs with AMD64 extension and all Intel CPUs with EM64T extension, and a common 64bit userspace.


my question is simple.

I have an

intel i5 2500t
intel i5 6600k
intel i7 4790
intel i5 4570t

I can use any of these.  so how do I check for the EM64T extension to decide which one to use?

Answer is here:

http://www.intel.com/support/processors/xeon/sb/cs-012580.htm



Q. Which processors support Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology?
A. Since Q4 of 2006, Intel® EM64T has been supported in all mobile, desktop and server processors that are based on the Intel® Core™ Microarchitecture.


So I am going to do a debian  with the i5 2500T 

Please let us know how it turns out but I think you will really like the result if it was like me.  I was messing with drivers and was pain.   After I switched to debian was much easier I am running just regular 4.9.2 and as icarus instead of compac.  Seems to work fine for me.

[vapourminer]

interesting about zadig and cgminer.. Ive installed zadig for usb  miners with absolutely no problems on win7 starter with a very under powered intel atom CPU netbook, a notebook with a i5 M450  and win10 (for the lulz and specifically to test with compacs on win10), win7 64bit professional (i5 3570k),  vista32 ultimate (intel E7500) and  XP (cant remember CPU; it was last year).

mayhaps Im just lucky with zadig and cgminer..

EDITs:  stock cgminer with the win7s and XP with miners and the-crap-company-I-shall-not-name, cgminer-gekko on vista/win10 with compacs

never tried Luke-Jrs BFGMiner, cks cgminer seems way more easy with cgminer/zadig

and novac, thanks for the windows cgminer build and of course sidehack thanks for the compac, they rock.

consider giving sidehack and novak  burger donations.. sure sidehack sells compacs  for money but they did the work on it for burgers

BTW if anyone has not donated BTC to ck and kano for cgminer, please donate to them also,  lot of work went into that code

[mindtrip]

Any updates Novak on recompiling your cgminer build to work alongside some regular U2 sticks? I got a bunch laying around now I guess I could build another pi just to run the old legacy miners but I have that 1 stick that won't play well with my others so I was going to put it with my old U2's

[Luke-Jr]

never tried Luke-Jrs BFGMiner, cks cgminer seems way more easy with cgminer/zadig

How is it easier to do more things to set it up? O.o
BFGMiner is plug-and-play... :p

[bmoscato]

Any updates Novak on recompiling your cgminer build to work alongside some regular U2 sticks? I got a bunch laying around now I guess I could build another pi just to run the old legacy miners but I have that 1 stick that won't play well with my others so I was going to put it with my old U2's

I know that BFG Miner doesn't work with both U2 and Compaq at the same time, it sees the U1 and U2 as Compaqs.

[philipma1957]

I suggest trying a live usb of Debian - https://www.debian.org/.   With live usb you can run off a usb stick and not even have to do a install on HD.

But I found windows to be a pain with drivers I used 7 and 8.  Went to debian and no issues.   Then I went to RPI and raspbian (which is built off debian) and still working great.   

With linux just no messing with the drivers and very very nice.

Okay I loaded wheezy to an i5 4570t

and the pc will only run the sticks.


so how do I load software like  cgminer.

what link is good to load?

[notlist3d]

I suggest trying a live usb of Debian - https://www.debian.org/.   With live usb you can run off a usb stick and not even have to do a install on HD.

But I found windows to be a pain with drivers I used 7 and 8.  Went to debian and no issues.   Then I went to RPI and raspbian (which is built off debian) and still working great.  

With linux just no messing with the drivers and very very nice.

Okay I loaded wheezy to an i5 4570t

and the pc will only run the sticks.


so how do I load software like  cgminer.

what link is good to load?

I am running just regular 4.9.2 with Icarus.  You can get a guide pretty close on here - http://blog.phrog.org/2013/07/06/simple-debian-cgminer-asicminer-block-erupter-usb-setup/

Before it try in terminal - apt get upgrade
That will upgrade a lot of things.

Some commands might require sudo in front as root access.   I even went overboard and ran cgminer as root.

I also looked at guide in this thread and added the following to make sure I had all possible things needed.   Again it's overboard if someone takes time they could clean it up for sure.
sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool libcurl4-openssl-dev pkg-config libncurses5-dev libudev-dev

Also used icarus cgminer running not the old cgminer it mentions on that guide something like:
./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u 1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr --au3-freq 150