Baikal X10 Multialgo Miner (Non-official Support Thread)

[Ironeinstein]

I noticed this same issue at 30% fan speed. Doesn't happen at 20 or 50% fan.

Related question: is there a list of the sgminer options somewhere? Interested in using the auto fan control and temp cutoff, but the "gpu-xxx" options from the sgminer docs on GitHub don't seem to work.

Edit: looking for the custom baikal options for sgminer. The only two I've found are "baikal-fan" and "enable-nicehashsma"

[igotek]

@igotek

Hi, im mining with x10 for 4 days.
My results:
http://xvg-mg.idcray.com / https://dgb-groestl.theblocksfactory.com/   Best pools
zpool for quark/mygr/qubit/skein  bad
miningpoolhub  not bad
nicehash is down
suprnova same as miningpoolhub - maybe a little bit better
I have few questions
When I set fan speed bellow 48%  Fan starts doing this - 30%.....1sec60%.......30%.......1sec60%. Every 10seconds fan goes to 60% for 1sec. Why ?
Temp is really good 20C, I wonder If its possible to overlock... ?

Use %25 fan speed on myriad groestl.
Use %50 fan speed on Quark or Qubit.

I saw the same problem on %30 - %40 fan speed.

Overclock isnt possible on Baikal X10 Miner.

@igotek

i like this thread, i need your guidance on two issues:-

1. Do you think this psu can run two giant x10s?
http://www.corsair.com/en-us/hxi-series-hx1200i-high-performance-atx-power-supply-1200-watt-80-plus-platinum-certified-psu

2. How and where can i modify fan speed as i am using skein only.

thank you.

If you dont use X11 algorithm, you can use this PSU. It should be OK.
You can modify fan speed on miner page of the Baikal GUI.

SGMINER OPTIONS
baikal-fan         25


Regarding PSU cables: You can use 6+2 pin PCI connectors.

Someone else have this issue:

I set the fan speed to 30%. Mining myrgroestl... the temp ist around 28 degrees, so it should be fine. Well... my problem is, the fan is speeding up every few minutes (or seconds) and goes back to the 30%. This spin-up noise is really annoying and I cant see any reason why its doing so. Hahsrate and all is not affected. Its only the fan which spins up and down.

Somebody else have this behavior?

Use %25 fan speed. It should be OK.
Dont use %30 fan speed. It is a problem. The fan cannot run at %30 fan speed correctly.

I noticed this same issue at 30% fan speed. Doesn't happen at 20 or 50% fan.

Related question: is there a list of the sgminer options somewhere? Interested in using the auto fan control and temp cutoff, but the "gpu-xxx" options from the sgminer docs on GitHub don't seem to work.

Edit: looking for the custom baikal options for sgminer. The only two I've found are "baikal-fan" and "enable-nicehashsma"

There is no any other options for Baikal miner on SGMINER.
The Baikal Miners work at 80 c without any problem.
Just be sure there is fresh air in the place where you use the miners.

[igotek]

Hi,

I am pretty new in the mining world. From the Netherlands, so my English is a little poor perhaps.

This week we received 15 Baikal X10 miners. We already have L3's and Innosilicons running.
The interface for the Baikal is totally different, so i am having difficulty configuring that. But that is probably just practice and searching the internet. (however, tips are very welcome!)

But besides that, if have even a bigger problem. We now have 9 Baikals running. The other 6 i can't seem to find. I tried to look them up in Baikal scanner, and also in Advanced ip scanner, but no succes!

There is no reset buton on the miners. No sd slot. Only an USB slot and an other litte slot for some sort of connection cable. I read something about installing a new sd card image. Can i do this with usb aswell? There is no sd slot in the Baikal.

Again, 9 miners appeared perfectly when using ip scanner. But the other 6 are ghosts.....
I picked two of the ghost miners up and plugged them in at my own place, but also there they don't show up.

Does anyone have a solution for this problem? Please....

Francis

There is an SDCARD in the Baikal X10.
Just removethe cables and remove the screws.
You will see the OrangePi Zero.The SDCAD is located behind the CAT5 interface.
You cannot modify SDCARD image by using USB. USB is for the updating the MCU firmware for the boards.

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Before doing anything, just power off the PSU and power ON it again.
You will find them on Baikal monitor. I use smart plugs to restart the Baikal miners.

[Fran78]

I rather not disassamble the miner because of the guarantee.
I tried to power on and off. Also switcht the power cords, but no success.
Have baikal monitor and also baikal scanner. On both they do not appear.
Lights on the baikal are blinking. Is there any other solution left, before
I have to contact the factory? I rather not sent them back for repair. I read
that this is a real time consuming problem.....

[Fran78]

update:

I changed my mind and took out the SD card. When connecting it to my computer, nothing happens. I do hear the 'pling', but
no screen opens and no extra directory appears. The sd card of one of the other machines however did open on my computer.
Only gave the message that he can't open the content, because it is a unknown file. This machine can be found on the computer,
but i can't get in the interface. I am now pretty sure that there is something wrong with the sd cards.

What can i do? Buy a few new sd cards. If i put the PiZero_GX10 file on there, downloaded from there website, will that maybe solve the problem?

[Lafu]

update:

I changed my mind and took out the SD card. When connecting it to my computer, nothing happens. I do hear the 'pling', but
no screen opens and no extra directory appears. The sd card of one of the other machines however did open on my computer.
Only gave the message that he can't open the content, because it is a unknown file. This machine can be found on the computer,
but i can't get in the interface. I am now pretty sure that there is something wrong with the sd cards.

What can i do? Buy a few new sd cards. If i put the PiZero_GX10 file on there, downloaded from there website, will that maybe solve the problem?

Should be work because i done this a few times with my mini and my giant !!

[Fran78]

Thanks for your reply. I just tried to write the file to a (formatted) sd card , but i get error 5 in win32diskimager. Something about an error that occurs while writing data to the handle???

I tried to use another usb port. Als tried to use an other adapter for the sd card, but no luck still. Does anyone have any other suggestions?

[igotek]

update:

I changed my mind and took out the SD card. When connecting it to my computer, nothing happens. I do hear the 'pling', but
no screen opens and no extra directory appears. The sd card of one of the other machines however did open on my computer.
Only gave the message that he can't open the content, because it is a unknown file. This machine can be found on the computer,
but i can't get in the interface. I am now pretty sure that there is something wrong with the sd cards.

What can i do? Buy a few new sd cards. If i put the PiZero_GX10 file on there, downloaded from there website, will that maybe solve the problem?

when you insert the SDCARD to card read and pc, you will see a few file inside the SDCARD.
if you cannot see them:

SDCARD is corrupt or your card reader is out of order.

Try another SDCARD and check if you pc will see the files or not.

Thanks for your reply. I just tried to write the file to a (formatted) sd card , but i get error 5 in win32diskimager. Something about an error that occurs while writing data to the handle???

I tried to use another usb port. Als tried to use an other adapter for the sd card, but no luck still. Does anyone have any other suggestions?

use SDCARD FORMATTER software to format SDCARD.
then write the X10 image to SDCARD.
use 4 GB SDCARD. if your SDCARD is corrupt, win32disk software will show you error.
You must check SDCARD is OK or not and the same for card reader.
this problem is not related with Baikal. you must have some computer skills.

[Fran78]

Thanks!

What i did: i first formatted the SD card with SD formatter. Then used diskpart to clean it intirely, using this tutorial https://www.[Suspicious link removed]s/www.windowscentral.com/how-clean-and-format-storage-drive-using-diskpart-windows-10%3famp

After that i could write the X10 file to the SD card succesfully. Put it in one of the baikals.....and tadaaaaa!! It's working again!

Thanks for your help. Tomorrow i will do the same with the rest of the baikals and give an update when they are all on air.

[maleemk]

I am getting my x10 miners pretty soon. I want to know that is daisy Chain 2-3 these miners in possible or not. Right now I have Daisy Chained my Baikal X2 miners in 3 each and they are working like a charm.

[tomwrx]

Thanks!

What i did: i first formatted the SD card with SD formatter. Then used diskpart to clean it intirely, using this tutorial https://www.[Suspicious link removed]s/www.windowscentral.com/how-clean-and-format-storage-drive-using-diskpart-windows-10%3famp

After that i could write the X10 file to the SD card succesfully. Put it in one of the baikals.....and tadaaaaa!! It's working again!

Thanks for your help. Tomorrow i will do the same with the rest of the baikals and give an update when they are all on air.

great! when you formated sd card, which file allocation system did you use? fat32, ntfs or some other?

[Fran78]

great! when you formated sd card, which file allocation system did you use? fat32, ntfs or some other?

NTFS. If you click the link in my previous post, you can see. Some of the defect cards i could directly
clean with diskpart, but some of them gave an error. These cards i first formatted with SD formatter,
and after that i could run diskpart without any error. I just formatted all the defect cards with succes.
Now installing the X10 file on the cards.

1 of the X10's is finally running perfectly now! The others i will know in a few hours. Hope to have them all up
and running by then.

[igotek]

Thanks!

What i did: i first formatted the SD card with SD formatter. Then used diskpart to clean it intirely, using this tutorial https://www.[Suspicious link removed]s/www.windowscentral.com/how-clean-and-format-storage-drive-using-diskpart-windows-10%3famp

After that i could write the X10 file to the SD card succesfully. Put it in one of the baikals.....and tadaaaaa!! It's working again!

Thanks for your help. Tomorrow i will do the same with the rest of the baikals and give an update when they are all on air.

You are welcome.

I am getting my x10 miners pretty soon. I want to know that is daisy Chain 2-3 these miners in possible or not. Right now I have Daisy Chained my Baikal X2 miners in 3 each and they are working like a charm.

it s not possible.

great! when you formated sd card, which file allocation system did you use? fat32, ntfs or some other?

I prefer fat32

[denax]

Received my miner today. So far (over 8h running) it made around 400 DGB, which is alot less than I expected or whattomine says.
I'm mining on Mining Pool Hub, since it was easy to setup und I'm pretty new to mining in general.
Am I doing something wrong? Do I have to do special settings except to point my miner on the pool? Like do I have to set the difficulty or something like that? And if so, how exactly do I do that?
Also sometimes my Dashboard on MPH shows that my hashrate is down to like 8GH/s or 5GH/s or once even 1GH/s but in the settings of the Miner it was constantly on over 10GH/s and I dont have auto switching activated so it cannot switch to other coins.. Why is that?

EDIT:
I just saw that sometimes when the hashrate on Digibyte-Groestl goes down I get hashrate on Myriadcoin-Groestl even tho I didnt allow my miner/worker to mine that coin. Why is that? Did anyone ever have a similar problem on Mining Pool Hub?

[cashen]

I have 10 X10s

A couple issues i'm working through.

- Hash rate of miner is much less pool side
- Getting a "Miner down" error. It appears it is connected, but the miner is not started
- Boards sometimes stop working
- The units not currently working I'm getting a "Miner: 111 Connection Refused" error when I try to remotely reboot it.

[slanislaw]

Received my miner today. So far (over 8h running) it made around 400 DGB, which is alot less than I expected or whattomine says.
I'm mining on Mining Pool Hub, since it was easy to setup und I'm pretty new to mining in general.
Am I doing something wrong? Do I have to do special settings except to point my miner on the pool? Like do I have to set the difficulty or something like that? And if so, how exactly do I do that?
Also sometimes my Dashboard on MPH shows that my hashrate is down to like 8GH/s or 5GH/s or once even 1GH/s but in the settings of the Miner it was constantly on over 10GH/s and I dont have auto switching activated so it cannot switch to other coins.. Why is that?

EDIT:
I just saw that sometimes when the hashrate on Digibyte-Groestl goes down I get hashrate on Myriadcoin-Groestl even tho I didnt allow my miner/worker to mine that coin. Why is that? Did anyone ever have a similar problem on Mining Pool Hub?

You are mining on Mining Pool Hub's Auto-switching Groestl port.

Port 17005 is their auto-switching Groestl port. It automatically switches to mine the most profitable groestl coin.

Mine to port 20499 to only mine DGB-Groestl.

[denax]

Received my miner today. So far (over 8h running) it made around 400 DGB, which is alot less than I expected or whattomine says.
I'm mining on Mining Pool Hub, since it was easy to setup und I'm pretty new to mining in general.
Am I doing something wrong? Do I have to do special settings except to point my miner on the pool? Like do I have to set the difficulty or something like that? And if so, how exactly do I do that?
Also sometimes my Dashboard on MPH shows that my hashrate is down to like 8GH/s or 5GH/s or once even 1GH/s but in the settings of the Miner it was constantly on over 10GH/s and I dont have auto switching activated so it cannot switch to other coins.. Why is that?

EDIT:
I just saw that sometimes when the hashrate on Digibyte-Groestl goes down I get hashrate on Myriadcoin-Groestl even tho I didnt allow my miner/worker to mine that coin. Why is that? Did anyone ever have a similar problem on Mining Pool Hub?

You are mining on Mining Pool Hub's Auto-switching Groestl port.

Port 17005 is their auto-switching Groestl port. It automatically switches to mine the most profitable groestl coin.

Mine to port 20499 to only mine DGB-Groestl.

Thanks alot. That helped!

Anyways, I got one more problem now:
I started to mine Verge 2 days ago on idcray. Yesterday when I looked in "Earnings" the last 24h I made over 1110 XVG but today its only 800. That is over 25% less. Do you know why that is? Also: Do I have to set the difficulty on my Baikal or some other properties or settings? All I did was pointing it at the pool adresse and put in my username.
And what does the idcray site mean by "mining different was changed for X10 ,plz check your miner."?

Thanks for helping!

[mano237]

Received my miner today. So far (over 8h running) it made around 400 DGB, which is alot less than I expected or whattomine says.
I'm mining on Mining Pool Hub, since it was easy to setup und I'm pretty new to mining in general.
Am I doing something wrong? Do I have to do special settings except to point my miner on the pool? Like do I have to set the difficulty or something like that? And if so, how exactly do I do that?
Also sometimes my Dashboard on MPH shows that my hashrate is down to like 8GH/s or 5GH/s or once even 1GH/s but in the settings of the Miner it was constantly on over 10GH/s and I dont have auto switching activated so it cannot switch to other coins.. Why is that?

EDIT:
I just saw that sometimes when the hashrate on Digibyte-Groestl goes down I get hashrate on Myriadcoin-Groestl even tho I didnt allow my miner/worker to mine that coin. Why is that? Did anyone ever have a similar problem on Mining Pool Hub?

You are mining on Mining Pool Hub's Auto-switching Groestl port.

Port 17005 is their auto-switching Groestl port. It automatically switches to mine the most profitable groestl coin.

Mine to port 20499 to only mine DGB-Groestl.

Thanks alot. That helped!

Anyways, I got one more problem now:
I started to mine Verge 2 days ago on idcray. Yesterday when I looked in "Earnings" the last 24h I made over 1110 XVG but today its only 800. That is over 25% less. Do you know why that is? Also: Do I have to set the difficulty on my Baikal or some other properties or settings? All I did was pointing it at the pool adresse and put in my username.
And what does the idcray site mean by "mining different was changed for X10 ,plz check your miner."?

Thanks for helping!

Because many switched over to mine Verge coin>more miner>higher hashrate>higher diff>less profit for all.

[crytotronik]

Received my miner today. So far (over 8h running) it made around 400 DGB, which is alot less than I expected or whattomine says.
I'm mining on Mining Pool Hub, since it was easy to setup und I'm pretty new to mining in general.
Am I doing something wrong? Do I have to do special settings except to point my miner on the pool? Like do I have to set the difficulty or something like that? And if so, how exactly do I do that?
Also sometimes my Dashboard on MPH shows that my hashrate is down to like 8GH/s or 5GH/s or once even 1GH/s but in the settings of the Miner it was constantly on over 10GH/s and I dont have auto switching activated so it cannot switch to other coins.. Why is that?

EDIT:
I just saw that sometimes when the hashrate on Digibyte-Groestl goes down I get hashrate on Myriadcoin-Groestl even tho I didnt allow my miner/worker to mine that coin. Why is that? Did anyone ever have a similar problem on Mining Pool Hub?

You are mining on Mining Pool Hub's Auto-switching Groestl port.

Port 17005 is their auto-switching Groestl port. It automatically switches to mine the most profitable groestl coin.

Mine to port 20499 to only mine DGB-Groestl.

Thanks alot. That helped!

Anyways, I got one more problem now:
I started to mine Verge 2 days ago on idcray. Yesterday when I looked in "Earnings" the last 24h I made over 1110 XVG but today its only 800. That is over 25% less. Do you know why that is? Also: Do I have to set the difficulty on my Baikal or some other properties or settings? All I did was pointing it at the pool adresse and put in my username.
And what does the idcray site mean by "mining different was changed for X10 ,plz check your miner."?

Thanks for helping!

I guess "different" should be "difficulty". I mined with VarDiff on idcray and the assigned diff was around 30-70. So the port for diff=50 should be fine. Maybe they added the 50 for Baikal X10 owners. All you have to do is to use port 10064 for a fixed difficulty at 50.

[VasySir]

Verge how many times a day brings?