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

[HellDiverUK]

Yes - try running bfgminer with the following arguments:

Code:

bfgminer -S erupter:all -S antminer:all

Tried that but seems from BTC Guild workers that only the erupter is working

What does the bfgminer screen say, though?  That's kinda the important bit. 

[ManeBjorn]

I hope they get back to you soon and get you some samples.  I am not looking forward to having to run their version of cgminer to run them.

Can you introduce compatibility for the new Gridseed dual miners?

Once Luke and / or I have the hardware we can work on support. I've contacted the manufacturers asking for sample hardware.

[nwoolls]

I hope they get back to you soon and get you some samples.  I am not looking forward to having to run their version of cgminer to run them.

Feel free to prod them and let them know they should be sending these things to the authors of miners ahead of time. I'm still not sure why that's so hard to do or why they don't see the worth in it. I think most of the HW manufacturers just care about their HW "mining", not what miners are used and how their users are actually supported on the SW side.

[Cheshyr]

I hope they get back to you soon and get you some samples.  I am not looking forward to having to run their version of cgminer to run them.

Can you introduce compatibility for the new Gridseed dual miners?

Once Luke and / or I have the hardware we can work on support. I've contacted the manufacturers asking for sample hardware.

I'll talk to LightningASIC about getting a sample unit to one of you two.  I had assumed there would be no interest since the Gridseed chips have a Scrypt component.

[NicholasB54]

What does the bfgminer screen say, though?  That's kinda the important bit. 

Seems to be mining away normally - but just with the erupter

Just thought there was a quick & eay fix - I can get the Ant mining on it's own, hardly worth the efffort for the Erupter a few cent every 24 hrs

Thx, appreciate the help, not going to waste time trying

[nwoolls]

I'll talk to LightningASIC about getting a sample unit to one of you two.  I had assumed there would be no interest since the Gridseed chips have a Scrypt component.

I think there's a lot of assumptions or miscommunication on that part (not by you - just in general).

I've asked pretty much all of the Scrypt ASIC manufs and had no luck so far. Right now I think bfgminer is the obvious choice for them. The only other two miners either a) don't support Scrypt or b) don't support ASICs. bfgminer supports both and more.

bfgminer has not and is not dropping Scrypt support, not dropping GPU support, and is always looking to support new and interesting hardware and algorithms.

Do not mistake any single bfgminer author's opinion on alt-coins as a statement of what the bfgminer software will support for technologies. They are unrelated.

Edit: We're always looking for contributors too. We just had a new fellow in IRC yesterday who is getting a dev environment setup and will also be helping with the Scrypt support in bfgminer.

[HellDiverUK]

I had assumed there would be no interest since the Gridseed chips have a Scrypt component.

This isn't the cgminer thread... 

[Cheshyr]

I'll be honest; that was a surprise.  I've drifted in and out of the bitcoin community for a while now, and my expectations are low.  I'm glad to see a professional response.

[BRADLEYPLOOF]

WAIT!  So that dual miner usb thing is real?  How the hell does it work?  I hope you get a few to test out and verify because that would beat the pants off using a CPU or AMD 5450 GPU.  I thought it was just a scam and someone put a different aluminum label on a block erupter.  If they're real I'd get them mostly for the scrypt component, but would enjoy the few extra MH/s of SHA256 mining that I could get out of it...

EDIT: Besides wearing awesome toe socks, I do have some experience with C++ and wish that I could find some way to contribute to the development and upkeep of BFGMiner. 

[ManeBjorn]

I certainly will.
I have also prodded the developers of MMC to see if they would work with you two to get support for MMC CPU&GPU mining added into BFG and MuM.  I like mining MMC but it's a pain to have to run another miner prog to do so.

I hope they get back to you soon and get you some samples.  I am not looking forward to having to run their version of cgminer to run them.

Feel free to prod them and let them know they should be sending these things to the authors of miners ahead of time. I'm still not sure why that's so hard to do or why they don't see the worth in it. I think most of the HW manufacturers just care about their HW "mining", not what miners are used and how their users are actually supported on the SW side.

[ManeBjorn]

Yes if you are US based here is a good Group Buy.  He just started one for the 5 chip versions as well.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=438177.0
Here is the outside the US group buy.  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=436031.0

WAIT!  So that dual miner usb thing is real?  How the hell does it work?  I hope you get a few to test out and verify because that would beat the pants off using a CPU or AMD 5450 GPU.  I thought it was just a scam and someone put a different aluminum label on a block erupter.  If they're real I'd get them mostly for the scrypt component, but would enjoy the few extra MH/s of SHA256 mining that I could get out of it...

EDIT: Besides wearing awesome toe socks, I do have some experience with C++ and wish that I could find some way to contribute to the development and upkeep of BFGMiner. 

[Cheshyr]

WAIT!  So that dual miner usb thing is real?  How the hell does it work?  I hope you get a few to test out and verify because that would beat the pants off using a CPU or AMD 5450 GPU.  I thought it was just a scam and someone put a different aluminum label on a block erupter.  If they're real I'd get them mostly for the scrypt component, but would enjoy the few extra MH/s of SHA256 mining that I could get out of it...

EDIT: Besides wearing awesome toe socks, I do have some experience with C++ and wish that I could find some way to contribute to the development and upkeep of BFGMiner. 

Yeah, they're real.  I have one of the 5-chip units, and they plod along nicely.  Still gathering data on it to post a review.

They work as independent systems, really.  You have X SHA256 units, and Y Scrypt units, and each has its own serial interface on the GC3355 chip, so you can run either one or both at the same time.  The tradeoff is where you want to spend the power, really...  they're more efficient running in one of the single modes.

[nwoolls]

They work as independent systems, really.  You have X SHA256 units, and Y Scrypt units, and each has its own serial interface on the GC3355 chip, so you can run either one or both at the same time.  The tradeoff is where you want to spend the power, really...  they're more efficient running in one of the single modes.

I must admit they really do look interesting, even in the first generation.

I'm hopeful things work out as I'd love to get these guys working in MultiMiner.

[Mudbankkeith]

What does the bfgminer screen say, though?  That's kinda the important bit. 

Seems to be mining away normally - but just with the erupter

Just thought there was a quick & eay fix - I can get the Ant mining on it's own, hardly worth the efffort for the Erupter a few cent every 24 hrs

Thx, appreciate the help, not going to waste time trying

power off the ants

start bfg with the erupters (  -S erupter:all  )

power up the ants

start another session of bfg for the ants  (  -S antminer:all )

[Cheshyr]

I must admit they really do look interesting, even in the first generation.

I'm hopeful things work out as I'd love to get these guys working in MultiMiner.

I'm not certain if multi-mining ASICs have a future, or are just a novelty.  The SHA256 on chip almost feels like a hedge, but the implicit exchange rate of the chip could have repercussions if deployed large-scale.

I've poked LightningASIC.  They said you'd attempted to contact them before when they were overwhelmed with other responses, and that they'd try to get in touch tomorrow.  They're a reseller of the generic Gridseed units, but there's rumor of other products from them as well, so it might be a relationship worth establishing now.

[nwoolls]

I'm not certain if multi-mining ASICs have a future, or are just a novelty.  The SHA256 on chip almost feels like a hedge, but the implicit exchange rate of the chip could have repercussions if deployed large-scale.

Totally agree. To me the combo portion makes it harder to support on the SW side, and usually someone will have decided which they will be mining. And, to be honest, I think it made all of these pieces seem more suspect. Sounds like others may have thought the same.

I've poked LightningASIC.  They said you'd attempted to contact them before when they were overwhelmed with other responses, and that they'd try to get in touch tomorrow.  They're a reseller of the generic Gridseed units, but there's rumor of other products from them as well, so it might be a relationship worth establishing now.

That's awesome - I really appreciate it. I try to keep up good communications with anyone who wants to support us, and do my best to support them in return in bfgminer, MultiMiner, OS X support, how-tos, etc. etc.

[ManeBjorn]

I poked DualMiner about getting you some of the Gridseed units.
So far people they seem to be working well for people that have them and only one not working so far which DualMiner said they would refund or replace, up to the customer.
Mine will be here tomorrow and I will put it through it's paces too.
For someone like me this is an inexpensive way to get some scrypt kh/s without having to build and expensive rig.  I am definitely looking forward to seeing how it turns out.

I'm not certain if multi-mining ASICs have a future, or are just a novelty.  The SHA256 on chip almost feels like a hedge, but the implicit exchange rate of the chip could have repercussions if deployed large-scale.

Totally agree. To me the combo portion makes it harder to support on the SW side, and usually someone will have decided which they will be mining. And, to be honest, I think it made all of these pieces seem more suspect. Sounds like others may have thought the same.

I've poked LightningASIC.  They said you'd attempted to contact them before when they were overwhelmed with other responses, and that they'd try to get in touch tomorrow.  They're a reseller of the generic Gridseed units, but there's rumor of other products from them as well, so it might be a relationship worth establishing now.

That's awesome - I really appreciate it. I try to keep up good communications with anyone who wants to support us, and do my best to support them in return in bfgminer, MultiMiner, OS X support, how-tos, etc. etc.

[Mudbankkeith]

I poked DualMiner about getting you some of the Gridseed units.
So far people they seem to be working well for people that have them and only one not working so far which DualMiner said they would refund or replace, up to the customer.
Mine will be here tomorrow and I will put it through it's paces too.
For someone like me this is an inexpensive way to get some scrypt kh/s without having to build and expensive rig.  I am definitely looking forward to seeing how it turns out.

I'm not certain if multi-mining ASICs have a future, or are just a novelty.  The SHA256 on chip almost feels like a hedge, but the implicit exchange rate of the chip could have repercussions if deployed large-scale.

Totally agree. To me the combo portion makes it harder to support on the SW side, and usually someone will have decided which they will be mining. And, to be honest, I think it made all of these pieces seem more suspect. Sounds like others may have thought the same.

I've poked LightningASIC.  They said you'd attempted to contact them before when they were overwhelmed with other responses, and that they'd try to get in touch tomorrow.  They're a reseller of the generic Gridseed units, but there's rumor of other products from them as well, so it might be a relationship worth establishing now.

That's awesome - I really appreciate it. I try to keep up good communications with anyone who wants to support us, and do my best to support them in return in bfgminer, MultiMiner, OS X support, how-tos, etc. etc.

how many gpu's to one gridseed?  Got to be a big power saving.

[rmolby]

What does the bfgminer screen say, though?  That's kinda the important bit. 

Seems to be mining away normally - but just with the erupter

Just thought there was a quick & eay fix - I can get the Ant mining on it's own, hardly worth the efffort for the Erupter a few cent every 24 hrs

Thx, appreciate the help, not going to waste time trying

WE need more info.

Are you running on Windows (32 or 64 bit) or Linux?

What version of BFGminer are you using?

I can only speak for Windows 7 32bit.

I run nwoolls BFGminer 3.9.0 version 3 or the main depository BFGminer 3.10.0 with the following at the command line:

Code:

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

if you are using any older version of BFGminer, it will not see the ANTminer U1.

Also, even if you run the 64bit version of Windows, you need to run the 32bit version of BFGminer, or you have to specify the COM ports. I have no experience with this, so go backwards in this thread and you will find the info for this.

Answer the above two questions and we can help you better.

[af_newbie]

Luke,

Is there a way for bfgminer to instruct it to look at one COM port only?

I have 6 chili boards that I'm trying to setup one by one, but when I enter

"scan-serial" : [ "\\\\.\\COM11" ]

or

"scan" : [ "\\\\.\\COM11" ]

and have two boards connected on COM11 and COM15, bfgminer scans and detects both ports.

Any way to disable the auto scan?

Thanks,
af_newbie

PS. Using 3.10.0, win64