[GUIDE] GridSeed 5-Chip USB, Blade & Black Miner Support/Tuning

[sandor111]

I really don't know why. Guys, it's really helpful if you post the logs till it stopped sending shares.
If anyone wants to volunteer to help me fix cpuminer for the Blades, shoot me a PM.

[csmflynt3]

This does not have a whole lot of information , but here is what i have using 1 Gridseed Blade. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/109298881/cpuminer-gc3355.log

[sandor111]

This does not have a whole lot of information , but here is what i have using 1 Gridseed Blade. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/109298881/cpuminer-gc3355.log

Do you mind posting a log with debug mode (--debug) enabled? Thanks

[csmflynt3]

here is the debug

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/109298881/cpuminer-gc3355-debug.log

[sandor111]

here is the debug

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/109298881/cpuminer-gc3355-debug.log

Your pool is sending a new job like every second, could you please try a different pool?

[csmflynt3]

Ok I will give that a try

[poopypants]

I have been searching on for a guild to solo mining with gridseed, or asic's for that matter.  Can anyone give me a brain dead stupid guide on how to accomplish this?  Thanks.

[csmflynt3]

here is the debug

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/109298881/cpuminer-gc3355-debug.log

Your pool is sending a new job like every second, could you please try a different pool?

I think you may have found my issue as I switched it to clevermining pool which seems to be giving the miners a difficulty of 512. I had been using difficulty of 128 with my gridseeds on multipool and never modified this for the blade. Seems to not be an issue with the 5 chip gridseeds, but it must be sending work too quickly for the blades to handle. Its been up and running for over 10 minutes now so I will let you know how it goes.

[sandor111]

here is the debug

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/109298881/cpuminer-gc3355-debug.log

Your pool is sending a new job like every second, could you please try a different pool?

I think you may have found my issue as I switched it to clevermining pool which seems to be giving the miners a difficulty of 512. I had been using difficulty of 128 with my gridseeds on multipool and never modified this for the blade. Seems to not be an issue with the 5 chip gridseeds, but it must be sending work too quickly for the blades to handle. Its been up and running for over 10 minutes now so I will let you know how it goes.

Ya I think sending work too quickly will corrupt the Gridseed registers, anyhow I'm making some modifications now so that it will prevent that.

[czechcoin]

Nice  

[csmflynt3]

here is the debug

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/109298881/cpuminer-gc3355-debug.log

Your pool is sending a new job like every second, could you please try a different pool?

I think you may have found my issue as I switched it to clevermining pool which seems to be giving the miners a difficulty of 512. I had been using difficulty of 128 with my gridseeds on multipool and never modified this for the blade. Seems to not be an issue with the 5 chip gridseeds, but it must be sending work too quickly for the blades to handle. Its been up and running for over 10 minutes now so I will let you know how it goes.

Ya I think sending work too quickly will corrupt the Gridseed registers, anyhow I'm making some modifications now so that it will prevent that.

It must be the way multipool is sending the work as I changed my difficulty to 512 and it still stops hashing on that pool. I see differences in my logs that I attached.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/109298881/cpuminer-gc3355%20Multipool.log

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/109298881/cpuminer-gc3355%20Clevermining.log

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/109298881/cpuminer-gc3355Cleverming2.log

With clevermining I see this DEBUG: reject reason: job not found. When connecting to multipool that message never appears

[tc61]

Im not using a multi pool, but I have one instance running my 5chip pods, and a instance for the blade. It always seem that one of the board will start to taper off the other will keep working but not accepting any new work. Do you think running 2 instances to the same pool could be hindering the cpuminer? I am also letting the pool set the difficulty. I always starts off fine but it locks up anywhere between 20-90 minutes later.

[sandor111]

Important! You MUST update to the latest binaries (Download on Github)

Fixed buggy hashrate. Reduce work being sent + optimizations. More reliable ltc reset commands.
I hope that this version will solve the issues with Blades that stop sending shares.

[racebyu]

in the actual version of cpuminer ... the autotune feature doesn't log when it changes a per chip frequency nor the steps to go .. right?
any way to re-add that log output which showed which chip running at which freq?

Hum, does that auto tune work for the blade?
I have only used bfgminer so far with the blade unit, had issues trying to get cgminer working keeps kicking me out?

Here are my bfgminer settings, it runs around 50C right now in the basement, can run from 4.8-5.4hps max so far.

Bfgminer -S gridseed:all --set-device gridseed:clock=850:BTC=0:chips=40:modules=1:usefifo=0 --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://east1.us.stratum.dedicatedpool.com:3350 -u user -p password

Anyone have a cgminer configuration file that I can use to get this going with other mining software?

[tc61]

Sandor,

Running .9d now, ill give you feedback in a few. hanks for all your help.

[sandor111]

in the actual version of cpuminer ... the autotune feature doesn't log when it changes a per chip frequency nor the steps to go .. right?
any way to re-add that log output which showed which chip running at which freq?

Hum, does that auto tune work for the blade?
I have only used bfgminer so far with the blade unit, had issues trying to get cgminer working keeps kicking me out?

Here are my bfgminer settings, it runs around 50C right now in the basement, can run from 4.8-5.4hps max so far.

Bfgminer -S gridseed:all --set-device gridseed:clock=850:BTC=0:chips=40:modules=1:usefifo=0 --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://east1.us.stratum.dedicatedpool.com:3350 -u user -p password

Anyone have a cgminer configuration file that I can use to get this going with other mining software?

Of course it works for the Blade, it autotunes each chip individually.

[plzt]

here is the debug

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/109298881/cpuminer-gc3355-debug.log

Your pool is sending a new job like every second, could you please try a different pool?

I think you may have found my issue as I switched it to clevermining pool which seems to be giving the miners a difficulty of 512. I had been using difficulty of 128 with my gridseeds on multipool and never modified this for the blade. Seems to not be an issue with the 5 chip gridseeds, but it must be sending work too quickly for the blades to handle. Its been up and running for over 10 minutes now so I will let you know how it goes.

I remember reading somewhere that said a difficulty of 256 was best for MultiPool, maybe 512
I've had it running now on MultiPool set to 256 since:  cpuminer-gc3355 - Started: [2014-05-01 19:47:02]
Still going strong at 5.58MH/s

[racebyu]

in the actual version of cpuminer ... the autotune feature doesn't log when it changes a per chip frequency nor the steps to go .. right?
any way to re-add that log output which showed which chip running at which freq?

Hum, does that auto tune work for the blade?
I have only used bfgminer so far with the blade unit, had issues trying to get cgminer working keeps kicking me out?

Here are my bfgminer settings, it runs around 50C right now in the basement, can run from 4.8-5.4hps max so far.

Bfgminer -S gridseed:all --set-device gridseed:clock=850:BTC=0:chips=40:modules=1:usefifo=0 --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://east1.us.stratum.dedicatedpool.com:3350 -u user -p password

Anyone have a cgminer configuration file that I can use to get this going with other mining software?

Of course it works for the Blade, it autotunes each chip individually.

Great thanks for the info, I am a bit late in this thread.
Where can I download the software to give it a shot?
Thanks again!

[Kergekoin]

Great thanks for the info, I am a bit late in this thread.
Where can I download the software to give it a shot?
Thanks again!

Click on Sandor link in hes signature.

[csmflynt3]

Sandor this latest version(0.9D) has been working flawlessly now with my blades on multipool. Nice work blades are much happier

thanks