OLD: BFGMiner 3.10.0: modular ASIC+FPGA, GBT+Strtm, RPC, Mac/Lnx/W64, AntU1, DRB

[vjmorri]

Where can I view the options for the -S switch?  I want to run my Bluefury's in a different BFGMiner instance than my Butterfly lab SC.  I have tried a few different ideas, but all of them load in the same BFGMiner instance.  My Block Erupters load up in their own instance using -S erupter:all.

Thanks,
Jon

[nwoolls]

Where can I view the options for the -S switch?  I want to run my Bluefury's in a different BFGMiner instance than my Butterfly lab SC.  I have tried a few different ideas, but all of them load in the same BFGMiner instance.  My Block Erupters load up in their own instance using -S erupter:all.

Some devices support "auto" discovery and will be discovered and used by default unless you use -S noauto:

Code:

bfgminer -S noauto -S erupter:all

[doctormandrake]

I wonder if the new hubs we got from razorfishsl would be perfect for that kind of overclocking?  I bet they would.

listen up wot is going on?

i have an antminer u1 and im using bfgminer 3.10.0

antminer is clocked to 2.2gh/s using code 0A81 however... it does not clock at that speed it just stays at the default 1.6gh/s

however... i can set it second best at 2gh/s using code 0981 and it stays at that speed.

WOT is going on?? doth the program not like letters in the freq code or?

clocking 2.2gh/s worked in cgminer however... i switched to bfg as i dont want to pull multiple erupters out of usb ports incase they get  ted broken.

in any case... im losing 10% hash rate because of this WOT DO I DO should i continue with this ponzi scheme just wot do i do.

in any case wot is a hash error rate?  if there is too much will the work be destroyed?

regarded

ipoomyself

2.2 IS VERY DIFFICULT TO overclock to .  you need a stud hub with very good power regulation.  2.0 is easy to do. so what is the hub that you are using?

even with a great powered hub, many ants will not perform well above 2gh without hardware mods and extra cooling (better heatsinks AND a strong fan etc) Although some ants seem capable of 2.2 stock (with a good hub) Only one of my ants performs well at 2.2 without a ton of HW errors (makes it look like you are on cgminer antmain version lol)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=390929.new#new    << good resource for info on how to squeeze more mh/gh out of your ants.

[doctormandrake]

What can be the prob, that bgminer (3.10.0) running on a w2k8 r2/win7 machine doesn't found my 2 bifury's (cgminer does it).
On Win7 it founds my BitMinter Ant1.

thx

from device manager, with the miner plugged in, uninstall the drivers. unplug the miners. then reboot. then plug em back in. if you have the good drivers itll autoinstall them, if not redownload and manually install them. should work.

[nwoolls]

from device manager, with the miner plugged in, uninstall the drivers. unplug the miners. then reboot. then plug em back in. if you have the good drivers itll autoinstall them, if not redownload and manually install them. should work.

When you uninstall the drivers you may get an extra checkbox to delete them as well. In my experience you'll want to check that or Windows still may install the wrong drivers after rebooting.

[Orson74]

i will try it.

thx

[rmolby]

Hello guys!
   I am in need of help! I would like to run Block Erupters, U1 Ants, and Yellowjackets, all in one instance of BFGminer.  im  running win 7, I can confidently change from Zadig drivers to CP210 drivers, I just need the correct command lines so that everything is detected and my ants get over clocked to 2.0 gh/s im fine with NF1s being stock ( they run at 2.5 stock)
    I hope someone with more knowlage and skill can lend me 5 min of their time and trouble to help me.

    Thanks in advance!
        ZipTheRip!

ZipTheRip,

I would advise against running all three in the same instance.

I am currently running 8 BEs and 5 ANT U1s as well as one BFL Jalapeno, and the BEs are barely contributing due to the BFGminer instance running at difficulty 16

I am thinking that it would be better to run two instances of BFGminer and have the BEs in one, and everything else in the other. I suspect the BEs will run at 4 or 8 difficulty, with the faster devices running at 8 or 16.

I am actually going to be testing my theory in a just a little while.

Also, BEs are effectively not worth mining Bitcoin anymore from a electricity consumption standpoint. After I test my above theory, I will the relegating my BEs to mining some other SHA-256 coin.

[Mudbankkeith]

Hello guys!
   I am in need of help! I would like to run Block Erupters, U1 Ants, and Yellowjackets, all in one instance of BFGminer.  im  running win 7, I can confidently change from Zadig drivers to CP210 drivers, I just need the correct command lines so that everything is detected and my ants get over clocked to 2.0 gh/s im fine with NF1s being stock ( they run at 2.5 stock)
    I hope someone with more knowlage and skill can lend me 5 min of their time and trouble to help me.

    Thanks in advance!
        ZipTheRip!

ZipTheRip,

I would advise against running all three in the same instance.

I am currently running 8 BEs and 5 ANT U1s as well as one BFL Jalapeno, and the BEs are barely contributing due to the BFGminer instance running at difficulty 16

I am thinking that it would be better to run two instances of BFGminer and have the BEs in one, and everything else in the other. I suspect the BEs will run at 4 or 8 difficulty, with the faster devices running at 8 or 16.

I am actually going to be testing my theory in a just a little while.

Also, BEs are effectively not worth mining Bitcoin anymore from a electricity consumption standpoint. After I test my above theory, I will the relegating my BEs to mining some other SHA-256 coin.

Erupters as of today are still returning   6/1 over electricity cost(UK)  that gives them about 10 weeks more useful hashing.

The difficulty  factor:-  
1 share at factor 16, is the same value to your pool as 16 shares at factor 1
the only difference is the amount of network traffic you generate.

EDIT:-  The other limiting factor is:- how long it takes to generate 1 share.
 If the pool finds a block before your miner finds a share then you have 0 shares.

[Illutian]

I'm trying to find information on how to add devices, using switches, but can't seem to find anything. Just how to add devices after the BFGminer is already running.


Need to manually add all my Erupters because BFGminer sees some of them as ICAs but three show up as BEEs.

[Mudbankkeith]

I'm trying to find information on how to add devices, using switches, but can't seem to find anything. Just how to add devices after the BFGminer is already running.


Need to manually add all my Erupters because BFGminer sees some of them as ICAs but three show up as BEEs.

If you are only using erupters, then   -S erupter:all    should find them as    BES   also the addition of   --no-submit-stale      may grab you a few extra clock cycles.

[ThinkFast]

Are there compile options for Antminer support? I didn't see any references in the README.txt.
Can bfgminer run ASIC Erupters and Antminers in the same instance?

[nwoolls]

Are there compile options for Antminer support? I didn't see any references in the README.txt.
Can bfgminer run ASIC Erupters and Antminers in the same instance?

No compile options needed and yes it can.

[ThinkFast]

Wow!
Then my command would be:

bfgminer -o Pool_URL:Port -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD --icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100 --bmsc-options --bmsc-freq 0781

correct?

[nwoolls]

Then my command would be:

bfgminer -o Pool_URL:Port -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD --icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100 --bmsc-options --bmsc-freq 0781

Not quite, those are command line options for the BITMAINtech-specific fork of cgminer. For bfgminer (if you want to run both Block Erupters and U1s and overclock) you would do:

Code:

bfgminer -o pool:port -u username -p password -S erupter:all -S antminer:all --set-device antminer:clock=x0781

[ThinkFast]

Then my command would be:

bfgminer -o Pool_URL:Port -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD --icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100 --bmsc-options --bmsc-freq 0781

Not quite, those are command line options for the BITMAINtech-specific fork of cgminer. For bfgminer (if you want to run both Block Erupters and U1s and overclock) you would do:

Code:

bfgminer -o pool:port -u username -p password -S erupter:all -S antminer:all --set-device antminer:clock=x0781

K. Thanks!

[Illutian]

I'm trying to find information on how to add devices, using switches, but can't seem to find anything. Just how to add devices after the BFGminer is already running.


Need to manually add all my Erupters because BFGminer sees some of them as ICAs but three show up as BEEs.

If you are only using erupters, then   -S erupter:all    should find them as    BES   also the addition of   --no-submit-stale      may grab you a few extra clock cycles.

Was hoping for something like that other miner-program-that-shall-not-be-named. Where you can specific the COM ports. But for this it would be the ttyUSB ports.

I can't just use the 'erupter:all' because I also have a BFL unit and it will not start.

And I pretty much have to use BEE because ICA results in about a 22% HW error rate, whereas, BEE results in about 5%. This from a mining session that lasts about 6 days. So it's pretty much screwing me over.

The alternative is to manually add all 18 erupters...by hand. Every single start up.....on Linux.
((hurrah, lsusb, and figure out which ports are which.))

[nwoolls]

Where you can specific the COM ports. But for this it would be the ttyUSB ports.

I can't just use the 'erupter:all' because I also have a BFL unit and it will not start.

You can specify individual devices as well:

Code:

bfgminer -S erupter:\\.\COM3 -o -u etc

[Illutian]

Where you can specific the COM ports. But for this it would be the ttyUSB ports.

I can't just use the 'erupter:all' because I also have a BFL unit and it will not start.

You can specify individual devices as well:

Code:

bfgminer -S erupter:\\.\COM3 -o -u etc

Thanks, hopefully this'll force BFGminer to see the BFL as what ever it sees it as. And the erupters as BEEs. ....really hate that 20% HW error rate.

[rmolby]

Hello guys!
   I am in need of help! I would like to run Block Erupters, U1 Ants, and Yellowjackets, all in one instance of BFGminer.  im  running win 7, I can confidently change from Zadig drivers to CP210 drivers, I just need the correct command lines so that everything is detected and my ants get over clocked to 2.0 gh/s im fine with NF1s being stock ( they run at 2.5 stock)
    I hope someone with more knowlage and skill can lend me 5 min of their time and trouble to help me.

    Thanks in advance!
        ZipTheRip!

ZipTheRip,

I would advise against running all three in the same instance.

I am currently running 8 BEs and 5 ANT U1s as well as one BFL Jalapeno, and the BEs are barely contributing due to the BFGminer instance running at difficulty 16

I am thinking that it would be better to run two instances of BFGminer and have the BEs in one, and everything else in the other. I suspect the BEs will run at 4 or 8 difficulty, with the faster devices running at 8 or 16.

I am actually going to be testing my theory in a just a little while.

Also, BEs are effectively not worth mining Bitcoin anymore from a electricity consumption standpoint. After I test my above theory, I will the relegating my BEs to mining some other SHA-256 coin.

Erupters as of today are still returning   6/1 over electricity cost(UK)  that gives them about 10 weeks more useful hashing.

The difficulty  factor:-  
1 share at factor 16, is the same value to your pool as 16 shares at factor 1
the only difference is the amount of network traffic you generate.

EDIT:-  The other limiting factor is:- how long it takes to generate 1 share.
 If the pool finds a block before your miner finds a share then you have 0 shares.

I agree with everything you said. So I have been running for almost 10 hours based on my theory mentioned above.

I am seeing probably a 5% increase in submitted hashing power on the BEs, and a slight 1-2% increase for the BFL and ANTs. This is as indicated on Eligius pool. Overall not a big increase, but I also noticed a slight stability increase.

As always, your mileage will vary, I am just reporting what is working for me...

[rmolby]

Where you can specific the COM ports. But for this it would be the ttyUSB ports.

I can't just use the 'erupter:all' because I also have a BFL unit and it will not start.

You can specify individual devices as well:

Code:

bfgminer -S erupter:\\.\COM3 -o -u etc

Thanks, hopefully this'll force BFGminer to see the BFL as what ever it sees it as. And the erupters as BEEs. ....really hate that 20% HW error rate.

If you run

Code:

bfgminer -S erupter:all -S all

does it find your your BFL?

I run

Code:

bfgminer -S antminer:all -S erupter:all -S all --set-device antminer:clock=x0981

and it finds my BEs, ANTminers (AMU), and BFL units just fine.

Let us know how it goes.