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

[Blueman666]

Edit: I sent marto another PM requesting a sample.

Good luck.

Ha yes Marto is well known for his quick responses.

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[lajz99]

Looking forward to the 5 chip gridseed support...current cpu miner is insanely unreliable...

[wolfey2014]

Looking forward to the 5 chip gridseed support...current cpu miner is insanely unreliable...

Really? In what way? Mine is working great! I'd like to see more adjustable perimeters and detection like hash rate and temperature, intensity, etc.
But it's working very stably. I have no complaints there. Are you using version 2.3.2?
There is a 2.3.3 release too but it's only for CPU mining, evidently.....

Wolfey2014

[lajz99]

Looking forward to the 5 chip gridseed support...current cpu miner is insanely unreliable...

Really? In what way? Mine is working great! I'd like to see more adjustable perimeters and detection like hash rate and temperature, intensity, etc.
But it's working very stably. I have no complaints there. Are you using version 2.3.2?
There is a 2.3.3 release too but it's only for CPU mining, evidently.....

Wolfey2014

Yes, I am using 2.3.2.  The miner will stop accepting shares after a while to the point where I need to unplug the usb and restart.

[wolfey2014]

Looking forward to the 5 chip gridseed support...current cpu miner is insanely unreliable...

Really? In what way? Mine is working great! I'd like to see more adjustable perimeters and detection like hash rate and temperature, intensity, etc.
But it's working very stably. I have no complaints there. Are you using version 2.3.2?
There is a 2.3.3 release too but it's only for CPU mining, evidently.....

Wolfey2014

Yes, I am using 2.3.2.  The miner will stop accepting shares after a while to the point where I need to unplug the usb and restart.

Okay, well that sounds like a USB comm problem, not a software issue. 2.3.2 works fine and very stably for me, at least
You should start looking at other possible causes i.e. hardware issues or perhaps configuration problems or comm port problems etc....
good luck!

[Lassik]

Support for the single-chip thumbs is completed and submitted to Luke as a pull-request for 4.0:

https://github.com/nwoolls/bfgminer/tree/feature/dualminer-support

Support for the 5-chip miners is under way as well.

+1 for this. I'm not a fan of using CPUMiner for this. I do like CPUminer but for my CPU, not for this ASIC.

I also would like to get rid of using the DualMiner GUI software. I currently have 3 miners running. BFGMiner for SHA256, DualMiner GUI for my Dualminers, and CPUMiner for my 5chip gridseed.

All these updates to BFGMiner would be awesome to help eliminate the other 2 miners and just use 2 instances of BFGMiner.

[joeventura]

Looking forward to the 5 chip gridseed support...current cpu miner is insanely unreliable...

Is this actually in the works?

I thought I read that it existed. I guess I was wrong

[Cassey]

Hi all.  I seem to be having an issue when I use --load-balance with quotas vs --balance.  I've tested this on 4 different machines and am getting similar results...

Here are the key stats, using --load-balance between 5 pools, with quotas at 70, 10, 10, 10, & 5 with respect to each pool.

 OCL 0: 50.0C | 290.0/ 77.9/ 70.1kh/s | A: 52 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
 OCL 1: 40.0C | 182.0/ 49.4/ 57.2kh/s | A: 40 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
 OCL 2:       |  96.1/ 25.5/ 16.7kh/s | A: 12 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none

vs. starting with the same script that just changes --load-balance to --balance and all the "--quota xx;" to "-o"

 OCL 0: 77.0C | 437.4/408.7/327.0kh/s | A: 54 R: 6+0(none) HW:0/none
 OCL 1: 60.0C | 273.1/265.0/257.4kh/s | A: 41 R: 7+0(none) HW:0/none
 OCL 2:       | 140.6/140.0/107.5kh/s | A: 14 R: 3+0(none) HW:0/none

Obviously, this is only after 10 minutes or so of running, but the difference is clear.

Any thoughts?  Maybe its just a reporting difference?  Like its just reporting on the last pool or something?  Hope so, because I love the --load-balance/quote feature!

Cassey

[wolfey2014]

Hi all.  I seem to be having an issue when I use --load-balance with quotas vs --balance.  I've tested this on 4 different machines and am getting similar results...

Here are the key stats, using --load-balance between 5 pools, with quotas at 70, 10, 10, 10, & 5 with respect to each pool.

 OCL 0: 50.0C | 290.0/ 77.9/ 70.1kh/s | A: 52 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
 OCL 1: 40.0C | 182.0/ 49.4/ 57.2kh/s | A: 40 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
 OCL 2:       |  96.1/ 25.5/ 16.7kh/s | A: 12 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none

vs. starting with the same script that just changes --load-balance to --balance and all the "--quota xx;" to "-o"

 OCL 0: 77.0C | 437.4/408.7/327.0kh/s | A: 54 R: 6+0(none) HW:0/none
 OCL 1: 60.0C | 273.1/265.0/257.4kh/s | A: 41 R: 7+0(none) HW:0/none
 OCL 2:       | 140.6/140.0/107.5kh/s | A: 14 R: 3+0(none) HW:0/none

Obviously, this is only after 10 minutes or so of running, but the difference is clear.

Any thoughts?  Maybe its just a reporting difference?  Like its just reporting on the last pool or something?  Hope so, because I love the --load-balance/quote feature!

Cassey

I may be way off but, have you checked the port speed setting? Mine were set at 9600 bps, I changed them to 115200 bps and the problem I was having diminished greatly if not totally disappeared.
Stale shares stat was too high and ideally should be 0. Now they are. That's the online side of it,anyway. I can't monitor local hash rates via cpuminer's dos screens. ;( Why didn't they build that feature in?
Hope this helps.
Wolfey2014

[Cassey]

I may be way off but, have you checked the port speed setting? Mine were set at 9600 bps, I changed them to 115200 bps and the problem I was having diminished greatly if not totally disappeared.
Stale shares stat was too high and ideally should be 0. Now they are. That's the online side of it,anyway. I can't monitor local hash rates via cpuminer's dos screens. ;( Why didn't they build that feature in?
Hope this helps.
Wolfey2014

GPU --scrypt mining.  The only difference in the startup scripts is the balance option chosen.  But I appreciate the thought!

[AngusCanine]

I cant get bfg to find antminer u1 says "no devices found" any help with this one. also when running cgminer 4.0.1 what should the bat file say when overclocking ?

[Cassey]

I cant get bfg to find antminer u1 says "no devices found" any help with this one. also when running cgminer 4.0.1 what should the bat file say when overclocking ?

1st)  Make sure your running bfgminer 3.10.0 - prior releases don't have antminer support.
2nd) ./bfgminer -S antminer:all --set-device antminer:clock=x0981  Should do it for you, overclocking them up to about 2 GH, where most are reasonably stable without mods (make sure you have enough power)
3rd)  This is a bfgminer thread, don't expect much cgminer support <smile>

[AngusCanine]

I cant get bfg to find antminer u1 says "no devices found" any help with this one. also when running cgminer 4.0.1 what should the bat file say when overclocking ?

1st)  Make sure your running bfgminer 3.10.0 - prior releases don't have antminer support.
2nd)9Should do it for you, overclocking them up to about 2 GH, where most are reasonably stable without mods (make sure you have enough power)
3rd)  This is a bfgminer thread, don't expect much cgminer support <smile>

my bad sorry guys when im running 3.10.0 what is the enter target: (value?) and if I use this ( ./bfgminer -S antminer:all --set-device antminer:clock=x0981  ) where do I put the info?

[Cassey]

I cant get bfg to find antminer u1 says "no devices found" any help with this one. also when running cgminer 4.0.1 what should the bat file say when overclocking ?

1st)  Make sure your running bfgminer 3.10.0 - prior releases don't have antminer support.
2nd)9Should do it for you, overclocking them up to about 2 GH, where most are reasonably stable without mods (make sure you have enough power)
3rd)  This is a bfgminer thread, don't expect much cgminer support <smile>

my bad sorry guys when im running 3.10.0 what is the enter target: (value?) and if I use this ( ./bfgminer -S antminer:all --set-device antminer:clock=x0981  ) where do I put the info?

./bfgminer -S antminer:all --set-device antminer:clock=x0981 --balance -o stratum+tcp://us-east.multipool.us:8888 -O Cassey.miner2am:x -o stratum+tcp://multicoin.zapto.org:3320 -O Cassey.miner2am:x

That is all you should need for antminer U1s.  The above is my complete command line, with no config file.  Feel free to use it exactly (I'll appreciate the extra hash credits <smile>)

[AngusCanine]

so this is a bat file?

[Cassey]

so this is a bat file?

Unix shell file, but shy the ./ you should be able to put that in a .bat file - would save typing.

[freddyfarnsworth]

so this is a bat file?

On windows I use the .cmd type files to run in dosbox with string as above. without the ./

Bat was old DOS extension, .COM ect  windows does better with .cmd

bfgminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://mint.bitminter.com:3333 -u freddyfarnsworth_1 -p x -S antminer:all --set-device antminer:clock=x0981
Mine for me too

[AngusCanine]

ok that worked but it says no devices found press m and + to add, so when I do this what is the enter target value

edit:in regards to the bat file

[AngusCanine]

so this is a bat file?

On windows I use the .cmd type files to run in dosbox with string as above.

Bat was old DOS extension, .COM ect  windows does better with .cmd

so save this file as .CMD or .cmd

[freddyfarnsworth]

In windows yes.