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

[favelle75]

Any help??

I had 10 blades die. The fans still turn on, but no red lights or green lights.
GAW and GRIDSEED both said that they can't do anything, which seems ridiculous for almost $14,000 in hardware.
Any help would be really appreciated.

Pretty rare for 10 Blades to just up an die....perhaps something else is amiss?

[suchmoon]

Any help??

I had 10 blades die. The fans still turn on, but no red lights or green lights.
GAW and GRIDSEED both said that they can't do anything, which seems ridiculous for almost $14,000 in hardware.
Any help would be really appreciated.

Pretty rare for 10 Blades to just up an die....perhaps something else is amiss?

I'd start with the power supply, test each blade with a known good PSU/hub/controller. Even if they did all die that kind of implicates the power supply, doesn't it?

[Pachech]

Who am Main in dual mode with voltmod?
What temperature device?

[CartmanSPC]

Who am Main in dual mode with voltmod?
What temperature device?

Not completely sure what your asking but if you are wondering if you can mine BTC and LTC (dual mode) with the voltmod the answer is NO. Do not even try...you will blow your miner.

[Pachech]

Not completely sure what your asking but if you are wondering if you can mine BTC and LTC (dual mode) with the voltmod the answer is NO. Do not even try...you will blow your miner.

Please forgive me for my english
 I am from Ukraine
 Litecoin complexity grows very quickly.
Will be considered favorably in dual mode.
Need to rewire the resistors 47 on 33kom

[ManeBjorn]

Has there been any new release lately of cpuminer?
I am still using 1.0d and it has been working great but I am always keeping my eye open for updates.

[digitizing]

I'm using raspberry pi with jmordica cgminer.
sometimes one off the blade Off. it's happen for any freq, 83x,850,86x.
I just need to restart the cgminer to make it hashing again.
Is there anyway to automatically restart cgminer when the blade off ?

[ajareselde]

did anyone break that 500-530kh we did couple months ago with voltmod?
i have a feeling that you can squeeze alot more than that

[favelle75]

HELP! One of my Blades is going crazy now. It is reporting 5.7Mhash/s instead of 2.8. I don't understand it, I haven't changed anything:

[wolf_miner]

Hi, WiiBox with the latest V3 firmware (LAG3355_12-RC10g) support Gridseed Blade or only Gridseed Mini?

Really no way to install other firmware? I hope that there will be others upgrades in future.

Thanks in advance W_M

[kaltar]

I'm using raspberry pi with jmordica cgminer.
sometimes one off the blade Off. it's happen for any freq, 83x,850,86x.
I just need to restart the cgminer to make it hashing again.
Is there anyway to automatically restart cgminer when the blade off ?

Give Minera a try, i use it with Seeds + Blades on the same Pi, and Minera as an option to restart when it sees a dead device.

[dyland]

Hi All:

I have a weird problem; been running beautifully and effortlessly for two weeks until tonight with three volt-mod blades on hashra blade controla.

Only thing that I changed tonight was I went from 988 down to 963, and now the blades aren't even getting recognized or anything on controla. I have previously switched around speeds without issue.

This sucks-- I always seem to have some sort of problem crop up when the profitability is high (currently 162% LTC on clever).

Help appreciated.

Here's my history:

Code:

Jun 14 03:17:04 kernel: [    5.313714] usb 1-1.2.4.1: Product: STM32 Virtual COM Port

Jun 14 03:17:04 kernel: [    5.331168] usb 1-1.2.4.1: Manufacturer: STMicroelectronics

Jun 14 03:17:04 kernel: [    5.338497] usb 1-1.2.4.1: SerialNumber: 48D772613137

Jun 14 03:17:04 kernel: [    5.362010] cdc_acm 1-1.2.4.1:1.0: This device cannot do calls on its own. It is not a modem.

Jun 14 03:17:04 kernel: [    5.393721] cdc_acm 1-1.2.4.1:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device

Jun 14 03:17:04 kernel: [    5.497235] cdc_acm 1-1.2.1:1.0: ttyACM1: USB ACM device

Jun 14 03:17:04 kernel: [    5.509254] usb 1-1.2.4.2: new full-speed USB device number 10 using dwc_otg

Jun 14 03:17:04 kernel: [    5.630263] cdc_acm 1-1.2.2:1.0: This device cannot do calls on its own. It is not a modem.

Jun 14 03:17:04 kernel: [    5.643858] usb 1-1.2.4.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0483, idProduct=5740

Jun 14 03:17:04 kernel: [    5.653094] usb 1-1.2.4.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3

Jun 14 03:17:04 kernel: [    5.676079] usb 1-1.2.4.2: Product: STM32 Virtual COM Port

Jun 14 03:17:04 kernel: [    5.689102] usb 1-1.2.4.2: Manufacturer: STMicroelectronics

Jun 14 03:17:04 kernel: [    5.696498] usb 1-1.2.4.2: SerialNumber: 48DD7F6E3135

Jun 14 03:17:04 kernel: [    5.720098] cdc_acm 1-1.2.4.2:1.0: This device cannot do calls on its own. It is not a modem.

Jun 14 03:17:04 kernel: [    5.751768] cdc_acm 1-1.2.4.2:1.0: ttyACM2: USB ACM device

Jun 14 03:17:04 kernel: [    5.869344] usb 1-1.2.4.3: new full-speed USB device number 11 using dwc_otg

Jun 14 03:17:04 kernel: [    5.886114] cdc_acm 1-1.2.2:1.0: ttyACM3: USB ACM device

Jun 14 03:17:04 kernel: [    5.973082] cdc_acm 1-1.2.3:1.0: This device cannot do calls on its own. It is not a modem.

Jun 14 03:17:04 kernel: [    6.002133] usb 1-1.2.4.3: New USB device found, idVendor=0483, idProduct=5740

Jun 14 03:17:04 kernel: [    6.020301] usb 1-1.2.4.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3

Jun 14 03:17:04 kernel: [    6.045302] usb 1-1.2.4.3: Product: STM32 Virtual COM Port

Jun 14 03:17:04 kernel: [    6.061240] usb 1-1.2.4.3: Manufacturer: STMicroelectronics

Jun 14 03:17:04 kernel: [    6.068595] usb 1-1.2.4.3: SerialNumber: 48D4836A3135

Jun 14 03:17:04 kernel: [    6.092820] cdc_acm 1-1.2.4.3:1.0: This device cannot do calls on its own. It is not a modem.

Jun 14 03:17:04 kernel: [    6.127223] cdc_acm 1-1.2.4.3:1.0: ttyACM5: USB ACM device

Jun 14 03:17:04 kernel: [    6.201521] cdc_acm 1-1.2.3:1.0: ttyACM4: USB ACM device

Jun 14 03:17:04 kernel: [    6.380513] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_acm

Jun 14 03:17:04 kernel: [    6.530690] cdc_acm: USB Abstract Control Model driver for USB modems and ISDN adapters

Jun 14 03:17:04 kernel: [    6.630457] bcm2708-i2s bcm2708-i2s.0: Failed to create debugfs directory

Jun 14 03:17:04 kernel: [   10.744210] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): re-mounted. Opts: (null)

Jun 14 03:17:04 kernel: [   11.214581] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): re-mounted. Opts: (null)

Jun 14 03:17:04 kernel: [   16.662520] FAT-fs (mmcblk0p1): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck.

Jun 14 03:17:04 kernel: [   19.371551] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: hardware isn't capable of remote wakeup

Jun 14 03:17:04 kernel: [   20.885632] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xC5E1

Jun 14 03:17:07 /usr/sbin/cron[2038]: (CRON) INFO (pidfile fd = 3)

Jun 14 03:17:07 /usr/sbin/cron[2039]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok)

Jun 14 03:17:07 /usr/sbin/cron[2039]: (CRON) INFO (Running @reboot jobs)

Jun 14 03:17:08 kernel: [   27.286417] Adding 102396k swap on /var/swap.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:102396k SSFS

Jun 14 03:24:21 ntpdate[1912]: step time server 206.108.0.131 offset 426.715767 sec

Jun 14 03:24:21 ifplugd(eth0)[1588]: Program executed successfully.

Jun 14 03:24:30 ntpd[2241]: ntpd 4.2.6p5@1.2349-o Fri May 18 20:30:57 UTC 2012 (1)

Jun 14 03:24:30 ntpd[2242]: proto: precision = 1.000 usec

Jun 14 03:24:30 ntpd[2242]: Listen and drop on 0 v4wildcard 0.0.0.0 UDP 123

Jun 14 03:24:30 ntpd[2242]: Listen normally on 1 lo 127.0.0.1 UDP 123

Jun 14 03:24:30 ntpd[2242]: Listen normally on 2 eth0 192.168.1.71 UDP 123

Jun 14 03:24:30 ntpd[2242]: peers refreshed

Jun 14 03:24:30 ntpd[2242]: Listening on routing socket on fd #19 for interface updates

Jun 14 03:24:30 ntpd[2242]: restrict: error in address '::' on line 38. Ignoring...

Jun 14 03:24:30 ntpd[2242]: restrict: error in address '::1' on line 42. Ignoring...

Jun 14 03:24:30 ntpd[2242]: format error frequency file /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift

[Riley600]

Does anyone know if there's a version of CGminer for Gridseeds that doesn't require hotplugging?  I would use it but if my rig goes down while I'm not at home, I can't reset the miners.

Thanks!

[edonkey]

I've been trying out the CoinKing.io pool with Sandor's cpuminer and Minera with a 3 unit GridSeed 5 chip rig. I'm seeing huge reject rates (24%), and log entries like this:

[2014-06-15 09:16:08] DEBUG: reject reason: Worker is temporarily banned

I don't know if this is a pool problem or a cpuminer problem, so I've posted in the CoinKing.io thread as well as here.

Anyone have any suggestions?

[Pachech]

I also

[maxpower]

I've been trying out the CoinKing.io pool with Sandor's cpuminer and Minera with a 3 unit GridSeed 5 chip rig. I'm seeing huge reject rates (24%), and log entries like this:

[2014-06-15 09:16:08] DEBUG: reject reason: Worker is temporarily banned

I don't know if this is a pool problem or a cpuminer problem, so I've posted in the CoinKing.io thread as well as here.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Try setting your worker to a difficulty of 128 or so. Coinking sometimes starts you out at 16, but won't accept shares at that difficulty, so you end up submitting a huge number of shares that aren't accepted, and get banned for a few minutes.

[edonkey]

I've been trying out the CoinKing.io pool with Sandor's cpuminer and Minera with a 3 unit GridSeed 5 chip rig. I'm seeing huge reject rates (24%), and log entries like this:

[2014-06-15 09:16:08] DEBUG: reject reason: Worker is temporarily banned

I don't know if this is a pool problem or a cpuminer problem, so I've posted in the CoinKing.io thread as well as here.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Try setting your worker to a difficulty of 128 or so. Coinking sometimes starts you out at 16, but won't accept shares at that difficulty, so you end up submitting a huge number of shares that aren't accepted, and get banned for a few minutes.

Thanks. I gave that a try and it seemed to work better. But after about 45 minutes I started to see a whole slew of rejects again. After checking the log I found errors like this:

Code:

[2014-06-19 07:19:42] Rejected 0045ed0c GSD 2@0
[2014-06-19 07:19:42] DEBUG: reject reason: error 26 from memcached_get on localhost:11211: Operation now in progress

I think that this is a completely different problem. I'm somewhat familiar with memcached because we use it for server deployments at our work (although we kind of hate it and plan to move to CouchDB).

This new error seems like a server side issue. I'll bring it up with the pool operators support.

[maxpower]

I've been trying out the CoinKing.io pool with Sandor's cpuminer and Minera with a 3 unit GridSeed 5 chip rig. I'm seeing huge reject rates (24%), and log entries like this:

[2014-06-15 09:16:08] DEBUG: reject reason: Worker is temporarily banned

I don't know if this is a pool problem or a cpuminer problem, so I've posted in the CoinKing.io thread as well as here.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Try setting your worker to a difficulty of 128 or so. Coinking sometimes starts you out at 16, but won't accept shares at that difficulty, so you end up submitting a huge number of shares that aren't accepted, and get banned for a few minutes.

Thanks. I gave that a try and it seemed to work better. But after about 45 minutes I started to see a whole slew of rejects again. After checking the log I found errors like this:

Code:

[2014-06-19 07:19:42] Rejected 0045ed0c GSD 2@0
[2014-06-19 07:19:42] DEBUG: reject reason: error 26 from memcached_get on localhost:11211: Operation now in progress

I think that this is a completely different problem. I'm somewhat familiar with memcached because we use it for server deployments at our work (although we kind of hate it and plan to move to CouchDB).

This new error seems like a server side issue. I'll bring it up with the pool operators support.

Yeah, I agree. Unless Minera is running memcached for some reason (I can't imagine why it would), then it's definitely a poolside issue.

[digitizing]

I'm using raspberry pi with jmordica cgminer.
sometimes one off the blade Off. it's happen for any freq, 83x,850,86x.
I just need to restart the cgminer to make it hashing again.
Is there anyway to automatically restart cgminer when the blade off ?

little quick and dirty php code to restart cgminer when one or all blade off.
run this using php cli

Code:

<?php

#
# Sample Socket I/O to CGMiner API
#
function getsock($addr, $port)
{
 $socket = null;
 $socket = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, SOL_TCP);
 if ($socket === false || $socket === null)
 {
	$error = socket_strerror(socket_last_error());
	$msg = "socket create(TCP) failed";
	echo "ERR: $msg '$error'\n";
	return null;
 }

 $res = socket_connect($socket, $addr, $port);
 if ($res === false)
 {
	$error = socket_strerror(socket_last_error());
	$msg = "socket connect($addr,$port) failed";
	echo "ERR: $msg '$error'\n";
	socket_close($socket);
	return null;
 }
 return $socket;
}
#
# Slow ...
function readsockline($socket)
{
 $line = '';
 while (true)
 {
	$byte = socket_read($socket, 1);
	if ($byte === false || $byte === '')
		break;
	if ($byte === "&#65533;")
		break;
	$line .= $byte;
 }
 return $line;
}
#
function request($cmd)
{
 $socket = getsock('127.0.0.1', 4001);
 if ($socket != null)
 {
socket_set_option($socket, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVTIMEO, array('sec'=>2, 'usec'=>2000));
socket_set_option($socket, SOL_SOCKET, SO_SNDTIMEO, array('sec'=>2, 'usec'=>2000));
socket_write($socket, $cmd, strlen($cmd));
	$line = readsockline($socket);
	socket_close($socket);

	if (strlen($line) == 0)
	{
		echo "WARN: '$cmd' returned nothing\n";
		return $line;
	}

//	print "$cmd returned '$line'\n";

	if (substr($line,0,1) == '{')
{
echo "tes\n";
	return json_decode($line, true);
}

	$data = array();

	$objs = explode('|', $line);
	foreach ($objs as $obj)
	{
		if (strlen($obj) > 0)
		{
			$items = explode(',', $obj);
			$item = $items[0];
			$id = explode('=', $items[0], 2);
			if (count($id) == 1 or !ctype_digit($id[1]))
			$name = $id[0];
			else
				$name = $id[0].$id[1];

	if (strlen($name) == 0)
				$name = 'null';

			if (isset($data[$name]))
			{
				$num = 1;
			while (isset($data[$name.$num]))
					$num++;
			$name .= $num;
			}

			$counter = 0;
			foreach ($items as $item)
			{
				$id = explode('=', $item, 2);
		if (count($id) == 2)
					$data[$name][$id[0]] = $id[1];
		else
					$data[$name][$counter] = $id[0];

				$counter++;
			}
		}
	}

	return $data;
 }

 return null;
}

while(true) {

if (isset($argv) and count($argv) > 1)
 $r = request($argv[1]);
else
 $r = request('notify');


#echo print_r($r, true);
$bl0 = $r["NOTIFY0"]["Last Not Well"];
$bl1 = $r["NOTIFY1"]["Last Not Well"];

if ( $bl0 or $bl1 )
 exec("killall cgminer");

echo date("YmdHis") . " : $bl0 dan $bl1\n";
#echo intval($st) - 4 ;
sleep(60);

}
?>

[film2240]

Just thought I'd post here since I'm looking for a solution to reduce the fan speed on my Gridseed mini to the lowest speed it'll go down to as the noise is very problematic for me but since I use this in Scrypt mode,heat isn't an issue for me.

How can I silence the fan without disabling it (as this will make it harder for me to sell off later) as I don't want to worry about anything?

Is there a straightforward mod I can do just for the fan? I'm not looking to volt mod this since my hands are not steady and could risk damaging the miner.Maybe a idea of what resistor to use depending on how low I want the fan speed to be?Thanks.