Antminer S9 Help

[matth943]

Hello all,

Long time reader, new poster here. I tried reading the forums looking for assistance with one of my S9's. I tried a couple of things I saw on here with no results.

About a week ago it stopped mining. The hardware version shows as blank.

I also receive a fan error in the kernel.

I have tried replacing the main board and it tells me there is a hardware mismatch and doesn't let me update it. I have tried running the update firmwares on both boards (original and replacement) from bitmains site and I get an error for every version.

I have replaced both the fans with new ones. The both kick on and seem to work, though the rpm looks a little lower than the normal 6200.

I'm kind of stumped that this point. I purchased this miner third party, so I don't know which batch it is. Probably a newb issue, but i'm not exactly sure how to find out which batch it is.

I tired comparing the logs to my other miners, but I'm not that technical and it all blurs together to me...

If anyone could point me in the right direction, I'd greatly appreciate it.

-Matt

This is my log:

Code:

[    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
[    0.000000] Linux version 3.14.0-xilinx-ge8a2f71-dirty (lzq@armdev2) (gcc version 4.8.3 20140320 (prerelease) (Sourcery CodeBench Lite 2014.05-23) ) #82 SMP PREEMPT Tue May 16 19:49:53 CST 2017
[    0.000000] CPU: ARMv7 Processor [413fc090] revision 0 (ARMv7), cr=18c5387d
[    0.000000] CPU: PIPT / VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT aliasing instruction cache
[    0.000000] Machine model: Xilinx Zynq
[    0.000000] cma: CMA: reserved 128 MiB at 16800000
[    0.000000] Memory policy: Data cache writealloc
[    0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 126976
[    0.000000] free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat c0740a40, node_mem_map debd8000
[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 992 pages used for memmap
[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 0 pages reserved
[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 126976 pages, LIFO batch:31
[    0.000000] PERCPU: Embedded 8 pages/cpu @debc1000 s9088 r8192 d15488 u32768
[    0.000000] pcpu-alloc: s9088 r8192 d15488 u32768 alloc=8*4096
[    0.000000] pcpu-alloc: [0] 0 [0] 1 
[    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 125984
[    0.000000] Kernel command line: noinitrd mem=496M console=ttyPS0,115200 root=ubi0:rootfs ubi.mtd=1 rootfstype=ubifs rw rootwait
[    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[    0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[    0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[    0.000000] Memory: 364356K/507904K available (5032K kernel code, 283K rwdata, 1916K rodata, 204K init, 258K bss, 143548K reserved, 0K highmem)
[    0.000000] Virtual kernel memory layout:
[    0.000000]     vector  : 0xffff0000 - 0xffff1000   (   4 kB)
[    0.000000]     fixmap  : 0xfff00000 - 0xfffe0000   ( 896 kB)
[    0.000000]     vmalloc : 0xdf800000 - 0xff000000   ( 504 MB)
[    0.000000]     lowmem  : 0xc0000000 - 0xdf000000   ( 496 MB)
[    0.000000]     pkmap   : 0xbfe00000 - 0xc0000000   (   2 MB)
[    0.000000]     modules : 0xbf000000 - 0xbfe00000   (  14 MB)
[    0.000000]       .text : 0xc0008000 - 0xc06d1374   (6949 kB)
[    0.000000]       .init : 0xc06d2000 - 0xc0705380   ( 205 kB)
[    0.000000]       .data : 0xc0706000 - 0xc074cf78   ( 284 kB)
[    0.000000]        .bss : 0xc074cf84 - 0xc078d9fc   ( 259 kB)
[    0.000000] Preemptible hierarchical RCU implementation.
[    0.000000] 	Dump stacks of tasks blocking RCU-preempt GP.
[    0.000000] 	RCU restricting CPUs from NR_CPUS=4 to nr_cpu_ids=2.
[    0.000000] RCU: Adjusting geometry for rcu_fanout_leaf=16, nr_cpu_ids=2
[    0.000000] NR_IRQS:16 nr_irqs:16 16
[    0.000000] ps7-slcr mapped to df802000
[    0.000000] zynq_clock_init: clkc starts at df802100
[    0.000000] Zynq clock init
[    0.000015] sched_clock: 64 bits at 333MHz, resolution 3ns, wraps every 3298534883328ns
[    0.000310] ps7-ttc #0 at df804000, irq=43
[    0.000618] Console: colour dummy device 80x30
[    0.000648] Calibrating delay loop... 1325.46 BogoMIPS (lpj=6627328)
[    0.040209] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[    0.040430] Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.040452] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.042585] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
[    0.042920] CPU0: thread -1, cpu 0, socket 0, mpidr 80000000
[    0.042980] Setting up static identity map for 0x4c4b00 - 0x4c4b58
[    0.043206] L310 cache controller enabled
[    0.043226] l2x0: 8 ways, CACHE_ID 0x410000c8, AUX_CTRL 0x72760000, Cache size: 512 kB
[    0.121038] CPU1: Booted secondary processor
[    0.210230] CPU1: thread -1, cpu 1, socket 0, mpidr 80000001
[    0.210360] Brought up 2 CPUs
[    0.210380] SMP: Total of 2 processors activated.
[    0.210388] CPU: All CPU(s) started in SVC mode.
[    0.211049] devtmpfs: initialized
[    0.213464] VFP support v0.3: implementor 41 architecture 3 part 30 variant 9 rev 4
[    0.214678] regulator-dummy: no parameters
[    0.221945] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[    0.224231] DMA: preallocated 256 KiB pool for atomic coherent allocations
[    0.226520] cpuidle: using governor ladder
[    0.226533] cpuidle: using governor menu
[    0.233926] syscon f8000000.ps7-slcr: regmap [mem 0xf8000000-0xf8000fff] registered
[    0.235450] hw-breakpoint: found 5 (+1 reserved) breakpoint and 1 watchpoint registers.
[    0.235464] hw-breakpoint: maximum watchpoint size is 4 bytes.
[    0.235577] zynq-ocm f800c000.ps7-ocmc: ZYNQ OCM pool: 256 KiB @ 0xdf880000
[    0.257489] bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
[    0.258898] vgaarb: loaded
[    0.259598] SCSI subsystem initialized
[    0.260941] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[    0.261211] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[    0.261444] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[    0.261976] media: Linux media interface: v0.10
[    0.262142] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[    0.262382] pps_core: LinuxPPS API ver. 1 registered
[    0.262394] pps_core: Software ver. 5.3.6 - Copyright 2005-2007 Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
[    0.262516] PTP clock support registered
[    0.262868] EDAC MC: Ver: 3.0.0
[    0.263914] Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Initialized.
[    0.266730] DMA-API: preallocated 4096 debug entries
[    0.266744] DMA-API: debugging enabled by kernel config
[    0.266821] Switched to clocksource arm_global_timer
[    0.286327] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[    0.287273] TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[    0.287332] TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[    0.287417] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
[    0.287465] TCP: reno registered
[    0.287482] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[    0.287512] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[    0.287908] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[    0.288245] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.
[    0.288257] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
[    0.288266] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
[    0.288274] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
[    0.288287] PCI: CLS 0 bytes, default 64
[    0.288722] hw perfevents: enabled with ARMv7 Cortex-A9 PMU driver, 7 counters available
[    0.290756] futex hash table entries: 512 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[    0.292876] jffs2: version 2.2. (NAND) © 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
[    0.293077] msgmni has been set to 967
[    0.293873] io scheduler noop registered
[    0.293886] io scheduler deadline registered
[    0.293927] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[    0.305682] dma-pl330 f8003000.ps7-dma: Loaded driver for PL330 DMAC-2364208
[    0.305702] dma-pl330 f8003000.ps7-dma: 	DBUFF-128x8bytes Num_Chans-8 Num_Peri-4 Num_Events-16
[    0.430033] e0001000.serial: ttyPS0 at MMIO 0xe0001000 (irq = 82, base_baud = 3124999) is a xuartps
[    0.997905] console [ttyPS0] enabled
[    1.002156] xdevcfg f8007000.ps7-dev-cfg: ioremap 0xf8007000 to df866000
[    1.009773] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[    1.026708] brd: module loaded
[    1.036092] loop: module loaded
[    1.045575] e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - 2.3.2-k
[    1.051669] e1000e: Copyright(c) 1999 - 2013 Intel Corporation.
[    1.059565] libphy: XEMACPS mii bus: probed
[    1.063936] ------------- phy_id = 0x3625e62
[    1.068894] xemacps e000b000.ps7-ethernet: pdev->id -1, baseaddr 0xe000b000, irq 54
[    1.077565] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
[    1.084196] ehci-pci: EHCI PCI platform driver
[    1.091478] zynq-dr e0002000.ps7-usb: Unable to init USB phy, missing?
[    1.098311] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[    1.105141] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[    1.111274] i2c /dev entries driver
[    1.118209] zynq-edac f8006000.ps7-ddrc: ecc not enabled
[    1.123691] cpufreq_cpu0: failed to get cpu0 regulator: -19
[    1.129618] Xilinx Zynq CpuIdle Driver started
[    1.134466] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
[    1.140591] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
[    1.144902] sdhci-pltfm: SDHCI platform and OF driver helper
[    1.151777] mmc0: no vqmmc regulator found
[    1.155790] mmc0: no vmmc regulator found
[    1.196840] mmc0: SDHCI controller on e0100000.ps7-sdio [e0100000.ps7-sdio] using ADMA
[    1.205536] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[    1.211057] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[    1.215755] nand: device found, Manufacturer ID: 0x2c, Chip ID: 0xda
[    1.222055] nand: Micron MT29F2G08ABAEAWP
[    1.226020] nand: 256MiB, SLC, page size: 2048, OOB size: 64
[    1.231956] Bad block table found at page 131008, version 0x01
[    1.238179] Bad block table found at page 130944, version 0x01
[    1.244229] 3 ofpart partitions found on MTD device pl353-nand
[    1.250012] Creating 3 MTD partitions on "pl353-nand":
[    1.255101] 0x000000000000-0x000002000000 : "BOOT.bin-env-dts-kernel"
[    1.263162] 0x000002000000-0x00000b000000 : "angstram-rootfs"
[    1.270478] 0x00000b000000-0x000010000000 : "upgrade-rootfs"
[    1.279422] TCP: cubic registered
[    1.282657] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[    1.287370] Registering SWP/SWPB emulation handler
[    1.293257] regulator-dummy: disabling
[    1.297610] UBI: attaching mtd1 to ubi0
[    1.823903] UBI: scanning is finished
[    1.835513] UBI: attached mtd1 (name "angstram-rootfs", size 144 MiB) to ubi0
[    1.842596] UBI: PEB size: 131072 bytes (128 KiB), LEB size: 126976 bytes
[    1.849357] UBI: min./max. I/O unit sizes: 2048/2048, sub-page size 2048
[    1.856021] UBI: VID header offset: 2048 (aligned 2048), data offset: 4096
[    1.862900] UBI: good PEBs: 1152, bad PEBs: 0, corrupted PEBs: 0
[    1.868880] UBI: user volume: 1, internal volumes: 1, max. volumes count: 128
[    1.875987] UBI: max/mean erase counter: 41/22, WL threshold: 4096, image sequence number: 1283732989
[    1.885203] UBI: available PEBs: 0, total reserved PEBs: 1152, PEBs reserved for bad PEB handling: 40
[    1.894419] UBI: background thread "ubi_bgt0d" started, PID 1080
[    1.894425] drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device (rtc0)
[    1.898375] ALSA device list:
[    1.898378]   No soundcards found.
[    1.914771] UBIFS: background thread "ubifs_bgt0_0" started, PID 1082
[    1.943759] UBIFS: recovery needed
[    2.010044] UBIFS: recovery completed
[    2.013712] UBIFS: mounted UBI device 0, volume 0, name "rootfs"
[    2.019660] UBIFS: LEB size: 126976 bytes (124 KiB), min./max. I/O unit sizes: 2048 bytes/2048 bytes
[    2.028765] UBIFS: FS size: 128626688 bytes (122 MiB, 1013 LEBs), journal size 9023488 bytes (8 MiB, 72 LEBs)
[    2.038654] UBIFS: reserved for root: 0 bytes (0 KiB)
[    2.043683] UBIFS: media format: w4/r0 (latest is w4/r0), UUID C72F8006-6DFF-46BA-BBE9-380960A89F92, small LPT model
[    2.055237] VFS: Mounted root (ubifs filesystem) on device 0:11.
[    2.062441] devtmpfs: mounted
[    2.065547] Freeing unused kernel memory: 204K (c06d2000 - c0705000)
[    2.902925] random: dd urandom read with 0 bits of entropy available
[    3.296846] 
[    3.296846] bcm54xx_config_init
[    3.906869] 
[    3.906869] bcm54xx_config_init
[    7.907691] xemacps e000b000.ps7-ethernet: Set clk to 124999998 Hz
[    7.913793] xemacps e000b000.ps7-ethernet: link up (1000/FULL)
[   23.930781] In axi fpga driver!
[   23.933854] request_mem_region OK!
[   23.937275] AXI fpga dev virtual address is 0xdf9fc000
[   23.942351] *base_vir_addr = 0x8c510
[   23.957823] In fpga mem driver!
[   23.960892] request_mem_region OK!
[   23.964455] fpga mem virtual address is 0xe2000000
[   24.776235] 
[   24.776235] bcm54xx_config_init
[   25.406206] 
[   25.406206] bcm54xx_config_init
[   29.406626] xemacps e000b000.ps7-ethernet: Set clk to 124999998 Hz
[   29.412732] xemacps e000b000.ps7-ethernet: link up (1000/FULL)
This is XILINX board. Totalram:       507527168
Detect 512MB control board of XILINX
DETECT HW version=0008c510
miner ID : 81688dc461fb885c
Miner Type = S9
AsicType = 1387
real AsicNum = 63
use critical mode to search freq...
get PLUG ON=0x000000e0
Find hashboard on Chain[5]
Find hashboard on Chain[6]
Find hashboard on Chain[7]
set_reset_allhashboard = 0x0000ffff
Check chain[5] PIC fw version=0x03
Check chain[6] PIC fw version=0x03
Check chain[7] PIC fw version=0x03
chain[5]: [63:255] [63:255] [63:255] [63:255] [63:255] [63:255] [63:255] [63:255]
has freq in PIC, will disable freq setting.
chain[5] has freq in PIC and will jump over...
Chain[5] has core num in PIC
Check chain[5] PIC fw version=0x03
chain[6]: [63:255] [63:255] [63:255] [63:255] [63:255] [63:255] [63:255] [63:255]
has freq in PIC, will disable freq setting.
chain[6] has freq in PIC and will jump over...
Chain[6] has core num in PIC
Chain[6] ASIC[2] has core num=4
Chain[6] ASIC[3] has core num=1
Chain[6] ASIC[14] has core num=2
Chain[6] ASIC[26] has core num=3
Chain[6] ASIC[48] has core num=2
Chain[6] ASIC[49] has core num=7
Check chain[6] PIC fw version=0x03
chain[7]: [63:255] [63:255] [63:255] [63:255] [63:255] [63:255] [63:255] [63:255]
has freq in PIC, will disable freq setting.
chain[7] has freq in PIC and will jump over...
Chain[7] has core num in PIC
Chain[7] ASIC[15] has core num=1
Chain[7] ASIC[42] has core num=3
Check chain[7] PIC fw version=0x03
get PIC voltage=91 on chain[5], value=890
get PIC voltage=91 on chain[6], value=890
get PIC voltage=91 on chain[7], value=890
set_reset_allhashboard = 0x00000000
chain[5] temp offset record: 62,0,0,0,0,0,35,28
chain[5] temp chip I2C addr=0x98
chain[5] has no middle temp, use special fix mode.
chain[6] temp offset record: 62,0,0,0,0,0,35,28
chain[6] temp chip I2C addr=0x98
chain[6] has no middle temp, use special fix mode.
chain[7] temp offset record: 62,0,0,0,0,0,35,28
chain[7] temp chip I2C addr=0x98
chain[7] has no middle temp, use special fix mode.
set_reset_allhashboard = 0x0000ffff
set_reset_allhashboard = 0x00000000
CRC error counter=0
set command mode to VIL

--- check asic number
After Get ASIC NUM CRC error counter=0
set_baud=0
The min freq=700
set real timeout 52, need sleep=379392
After TEST CRC error counter=0
set_reset_allhashboard = 0x0000ffff
set_reset_allhashboard = 0x00000000
search freq for 1 times, completed chain = 3, total chain num = 3 
set_reset_allhashboard = 0x0000ffff
set_reset_allhashboard = 0x00000000
restart Miner chance num=2
waiting for receive_func to exit!
waiting for pic heart to exit!
bmminer not found= 1376 root       0:00 grep bmminer

bmminer not found, restart bmminer ...
This is user mode for mining
Detect 512MB control board of XILINX
Miner Type = S9
Miner compile time: Fri Nov 17 17:37:49 CST 2017 type: Antminer S9set_reset_allhashboard = 0x0000ffff
set_reset_allhashboard = 0x00000000
set_reset_allhashboard = 0x0000ffff
miner ID : 81688dc461fb885c
set_reset_allhashboard = 0x0000ffff
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Fatal Error: some Fan lost or Fan speed low!

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[tim-bc]

The S9 will not mine if it does not detect both fans. If you have tested the fans and are sure that the issue is not with any one fan, you should try plugging into one fan socket at a time to see if the problem is linked to one of the fan sockets on the controller board. Perhaps a connector is loose and could be fixed?

If the miner is still under warranty, consider sending it to Bitmain for repair. Otherwise, it sounds like you might need to replace the controller board. Bitmain does sell them from the official shop, albeit for $60 each. There are instructions for replacement and firmware upgrade on the page as well:

https://shop.bitmain.com/product/detail?pid=000201611160734291469K134u1i0621

I have never seen any error messages directly mentioning hardware mismatch and would be curious to read that error message if you have a copy. Best of luck troubleshooting this issue.

[matth943]

Tim,

I appreciate the fast response.

It is out of warranty... stopped working a few weeks out of it.

I just finished doing some more troubleshooting. I think I nixed the control board being the issue.

With the control board, I used my spare board which is in working condition, and the problem still lead me back to the fans with the same error.

I tested the board on my other S9 and it fired right up. No problems.

I figured out what I was doing wrong with the firmware flash. The control boards were also flashed and the fan error still came up.

The only thing I haven't done is take apart one of my working miners and try there fans. I don't want to take something apart that works to test another one.

As of this post, I just put two new fans in (replacing the two replacment fans I originally put in). Same specs as the stock fans. It's been sitting on "checking fans" since i booted it up. I'm going to give that a little more time and see what comes of that.

-Matt

[tim-bc]

Oh well, at least this problem usually has an easy fix, although it is strange that the issue seems to be with neither the fans nor the controller board...

One thing I would try, since you seem to only be detecting one fan, is to boot up with the front fan unplugged and then boot up with the back fan unplugged to see which one is not being detected. The fact that you mentioned that the boot is hanging on "Checking fans!" indicates that perhaps neither fan is being detected. Out of curiosity, have you tried a different power supply? Perhaps there was some fault and your psu is now delivering less than 12 volts.