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January 22, 2014, 04:02:20 PM |
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I'm having an interesting problem with one of these sticks. I had a DOA that when it arrive reported a temperature of 20C and did nothing, usually you plug these in and they report 50C before they start hashing. Sent it back and the replacement came and reports temperature as 100C before it begins hashing.
This has not been a problem as i have used the temp cut off option in cgminer to stop it throttling as they are all under cooling and never reach more then 55C. However now it is showing no more then 1.7GHs with cg miner started with cgminer.exe --drillbit-options ext:230:1:950 --temp-cutoff 110 on 3.10.0. Running on a USB3 hub and nothing has changed.
I am guessing i have had a chip go bad but thought i would post in case CGminer preemptively cuts off before the 110 limit, i have tried the different firmwares but get the same result. Anyone know what these use as a temperature sensor? and if there is a way to trick it back to normal range(i suspect my DOA was returned with a tricked temp sensor)?
Upgrade to the latest firmware. cgminer also supports a target temperature for these: --bxf-temp-target <arg> Set target temperature for BXF devices (default: 82) It does not cut off, it throttles to the slowest possible speed if it's over the range. Yep was on the latest firmware but buggered up my batch file using --temp-cutoff instead of --bxf-temp-target. Classical case of PEBKAC thanks for pointing me in the right direction  |
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wunch
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January 22, 2014, 04:04:16 PM |
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Still cant get my bi*fury's to run on raspberry... If its the same problem a week from now, im going to sell them again.
What a waste of money and time, and no support from sellers what so ever.
DONT BUY THESE
They won't run on a rasberry pi as the native usb ports do not give enougth power. The pi also does not detect USB 3 hubs which you pretty much need for these. Try hooking the pi up to a POWERED USB 2 hub and make sure it has plenty of power. Using a 48W USB3 hub i can only run 4 of these on one hub. |
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rallasnackbar
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January 22, 2014, 05:00:27 PM |
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Still cant get my bi*fury's to run on raspberry... If its the same problem a week from now, im going to sell them again.
What a waste of money and time, and no support from sellers what so ever.
DONT BUY THESE
They won't run on a rasberry pi as the native usb ports do not give enougth power. The pi also does not detect USB 3 hubs which you pretty much need for these. Try hooking the pi up to a POWERED USB 2 hub and make sure it has plenty of power. Using a 48W USB3 hub i can only run 4 of these on one hub. I am using a powered USB 2.0 Hub, with the red wire cut in the usb cable. Works just fine on windows 7. But no matter what i do, i cant get them to be detected on the rasp. Not even one. I really think Felipeo or someone else from the store should come with a solution to this. Since there is no point in running them on a machine with a big psu, i end up using more power then im gaining from mining this way. |
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FlensGold
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January 22, 2014, 05:55:44 PM |
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They do work on a raspberry PI:  At least they work running cgminer 3.8.4 compiled with the correct drivers. |
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rallasnackbar
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January 22, 2014, 06:01:52 PM |
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They do work on a raspberry PI: At least they work running cgminer 3.8.4 compiled with the correct drivers. What OS for the rasp did you use (Raspbian, Pidora, RaspBMC or other)?? Did you update the firmware on the bi*fury's? What USB hub do you use, and how much power does the ac adapter provide? |
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January 22, 2014, 06:33:09 PM |
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They do work on a raspberry PI: At least they work running cgminer 3.8.4 compiled with the correct drivers. What OS for the rasp did you use (Raspbian, Pidora, RaspBMC or other)?? Did you update the firmware on the bi*fury's? What USB hub do you use, and how much power does the ac adapter provide? Minepeon, current version afaik (version which was current in mid december). No, I did not change the firmware. It was as shipped in early december. The screenshot was taken while running all those devices on a 49 Port USB HUB with a "cheap" ATX PSU (25A). Unfortunately I have no more BI*Fury's anymore so I can not do further tests, sorry. |
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rallasnackbar
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January 22, 2014, 06:44:35 PM |
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They do work on a raspberry PI: At least they work running cgminer 3.8.4 compiled with the correct drivers. What OS for the rasp did you use (Raspbian, Pidora, RaspBMC or other)?? Did you update the firmware on the bi*fury's? What USB hub do you use, and how much power does the ac adapter provide? Minepeon, current version afaik (version which was current in mid december). No, I did not change the firmware. It was as shipped in early december. The screenshot was taken while running all those devices on a 49 Port USB HUB with a "cheap" ATX PSU (25A). Unfortunately I have no more BI*Fury's anymore so I can not do further tests, sorry. Triede that, didnt work. |
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January 22, 2014, 07:05:08 PM |
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On Minepeon you might also have to edit the "/etc/udev/rules.d/01-miner.rules". Don't forget to add the following lines if they do not already exist: # BXF
ATTRS{idVendor}=="198c", ATTRS{idProduct}=="b1f1", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ACTION=="add", MODE="0666", GROUP="minepeon" Oh..and you have to hot plug them. First start mining software, then plug them in. |
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rallasnackbar
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January 22, 2014, 07:29:30 PM |
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On Minepeon you might also have to edit the "/etc/udev/rules.d/01-miner.rules". Don't forget to add the following lines if they do not already exist: # BXF
ATTRS{idVendor}=="198c", ATTRS{idProduct}=="b1f1", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ACTION=="add", MODE="0666", GROUP="minepeon" Oh..and you have to hot plug them. First start mining software, then plug them in. And how do i do that, saw some other guy having trouble with it in the mac too, but he didnt add what command he used either. |
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FlensGold
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January 22, 2014, 07:35:13 PM |
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On Minepeon you might also have to edit the "/etc/udev/rules.d/01-miner.rules". Don't forget to add the following lines if they do not already exist: # BXF
ATTRS{idVendor}=="198c", ATTRS{idProduct}=="b1f1", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ACTION=="add", MODE="0666", GROUP="minepeon" Oh..and you have to hot plug them. First start mining software, then plug them in. And how do i do that, saw some other guy having trouble with it in the mac too, but he didnt add what command he used either. I only know the way using minepeon. Maybe the file on your system is somewhere else: sudo su
nano /etc/udev/rules.d/01-miner.rules
then add the above lines to the end of the file and save it afterwards. Reboot your machine and it should work. |
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rallasnackbar
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January 22, 2014, 07:38:58 PM |
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On Minepeon you might also have to edit the "/etc/udev/rules.d/01-miner.rules". Don't forget to add the following lines if they do not already exist: # BXF
ATTRS{idVendor}=="198c", ATTRS{idProduct}=="b1f1", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ACTION=="add", MODE="0666", GROUP="minepeon" Oh..and you have to hot plug them. First start mining software, then plug them in. And how do i do that, saw some other guy having trouble with it in the mac too, but he didnt add what command he used either. I only know the way using minepeon. Maybe the file on your system is somewhere else: sudo su
nano /etc/udev/rules.d/01-miner.rules
then add the above lines to the end of the file and save it afterwards. Reboot your machine and it should work. that line is already there. |
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January 22, 2014, 11:09:30 PM |
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why some times flash a red light and other time green? What that means?
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January 23, 2014, 03:34:43 AM |
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why some times flash a red light and other time green? What that means?
That is when it is working on the shares and stuff when mining. |
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January 23, 2014, 05:10:19 AM
Last edit: January 23, 2014, 05:21:25 AM by klintay |
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Still cant get my bi*fury's to run on raspberry... If its the same problem a week from now, im going to sell them again.
What a waste of money and time, and no support from sellers what so ever.
DONT BUY THESE
They won't run on a rasberry pi as the native usb ports do not give enougth power. The pi also does not detect USB 3 hubs which you pretty much need for these. Try hooking the pi up to a POWERED USB 2 hub and make sure it has plenty of power. Using a 48W USB3 hub i can only run 4 of these on one hub. I think you need some Dipo Electronic USB hubs. Professional standarded, 700 mA per port so all 19 ports can work even if you fill them up with bi-furies! Check out my thread here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=418087.0or https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=413406.0 |
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rallasnackbar
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January 23, 2014, 11:13:02 AM |
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I wouldnt buy these again. I had mines for two weeks now, and im still not able to run them on raspberry pi. |
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SavellM
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January 23, 2014, 11:25:25 AM |
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But what kind of issues were you having?
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SavellM
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January 23, 2014, 11:58:37 AM |
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Also are you using a Raspberry Pi A board or B board?
Does yours have 1 or 2 USB ports on the Pi itself?
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rallasnackbar
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January 23, 2014, 01:39:41 PM |
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But what kind of issues were you having?
I got a raspberry pi version B with two usb ports. It cant find any of the bi*fury's Triede two different USB 2 hubs, with ac adapters. Both work on windows, and find the bi*furys there Tried alot of different software for the raspberry, both raspbian and pidora, with verious versions of both cgminer and bfgminer. None of them even detects the bi*fury's And i also triede 3 different versions of minepeon, still with no luck. It cant even find a single bi*fury But reading some of the other posts, it seems like alot of the usb stick miners have problems with working on raspberry pi |
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