GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread

[joe7893]

OK I am running 5 NewPacs on a Gekkoscience hub with 8 amp barrel power plus cooling. I am having an issue with everything running great for a while and then randomly 1 or 2 of the NewPacs will shut themselves off and stay off. Any ideas on the cause? This set up ran great for 4 or 5 days straight then out of the blue this started. It is not always the same NewPac each time.

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[mstrozier]

Thanks @DieselWeaseI and @cliftonk.  I have a Odroid XU4 that should be here Thursday of this week.   Maybe the 3.0 port is just finicky on my Linux Box    It's a MSI - 970 gaming motherboard with FX-6300 running it.  Every time I connect my miners to the 3.0 slots on this box they fail.   About to swap out the cpu for a fx-8350 that is sitting in my closet.  Building a NAS unit at home (Raspberry Pi was more of a testing with OMV, using something else for the main box) to store media etc.  And need something in this box a little stronger than the 6300 for processing all of the media (conversions etc) and still keep the miners running.

However once the xu4 gets here, if all works well that should be able to power my mining rigs without trouble since you guys are having good luck with them.  Excited to test it out. 

[K21000]

Has anyone managed to get the R606 to run on a mac?

[demagogue]

Just wanted to post an update:  Received my RMA unit from 419 mining today.  While the box was a little squished, the miner arrived unharmed.  It's currently crunching away on it's inagural session.

Thanks 419, the other unit will be in the mail tomorrow night.

[joe7893]

First to my previous problem I think I have worked it out to a power issue. I can get 3 Newpaks to run at 400MHZ on a GekkoScirence hub with 8 Amp power supply. If I try a fourth one then it eventually kicks one or more of off. So my question is have I got it wrong? I don't have the meter to confirm this unfortunately. But I want to think that I am wrong because why build a hub with the ability to run 7 sticks if you cant feed it enough power to do so?

After much trial and error this is what I ended up with to get stable. I have 1 stick in a usb on the PC directly and 4 on the hub. ! of the ones on the hub shut itself off. Lots of reading on the previous posts to even get to here.

Code:

cgminer.exe  -o stratum+tcp://dgb1.coinfoundry.org:3174 -u [...] -p x --widescreen --gekko-tune-down 90 --gekko-newpac-freq 400

Second what is the minimum system needed to run a farm. I have a MSI H270-A Pro motherboard that I was going to build out for GPU mining. Could I instead build it out with Linux and run a far of sticks on it? Lots of USB ports on this thing. Limiting factors? RAM needed? Run from Thumb drive -vs- SSD?
Could I run say 6 R606 one to a USB port? or can you put multiple R606 on a hub without hitting a USB bottleneck?

Sorry lots of questions. Tweaking these things is a bit addictive.

[kalus]

I haven't gotten around to adjusting the parts needed for the R606 to run on macOS yet.

If you want it to try to run it there, you'll need to make an adjustment to use the R606 branch:

Code:

curl -o cgminer.rb "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vthoang/homebrew-cgminer/master/cgminer.rb"

edit the cgminer.rb file and change branch from 'master' to 'r606'

followed with:

Code:

brew install --build-from-source ./cgminer.rb

I'll get around to testing that when the branch gets merged back.   At which point it should mostly fix itself.

Thanks for this - i was able to compile from r606 branch, but i get repeated "failed to initialize (incorrect device?), resetting" from cgminer.  

when i go to (U)SB management, (L)ist all USB devices, i am able to see two r606 plugged into different ports.  they are assigned "Device 3" and "Device 4".  i cannot get them to initalize, and cgminer hangs in the (U)sb management screen and i must force quit.

does anybody have any ideas for osx? I am running off a macbook5,1 on 10.14.2. thanks.

e- solution was to flatten and install ubuntu.  problems solved XD

[WilcoWi]

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i run 6 newpac's on GS hub @650 Mhz (autotune, so some are bit lower) no problem at all. I think u are having a power problem, try a more heavier PS with at least 10A
you should run a R306 per port, dont stack em on a hub or you will get a bottleneck, but maybe when u use an GS hub you can stack
As far as i can see your MB should be ok, when running linux on it you should be even more ok
Limiting factors: as far as i know usb-port, but you got a lot of them, so that should be ok


@vh regarding latest version and 13 may version when using asic boost and windows 10 gS-hub 6 newpac's

13  may version using targets way to low. When i am using this version with --gekko-noboost, the freq go to 680 Mhz and after that autotune, when using it without this option target freq go to 150 Mhz
latest version: doing better, but freq stay behind @ approx 450 Mhz and some even lower

Switched back to 13th may version without asic boost after 30 mins, results of using it with asic boost are lower than without.

[sidehack]

I test up to six R606 at 550MHz (AB) to a hub on an old Dell 755 running Debian 7 with no speed bottlenecks.

[mstrozier]

Has anyone had the chance to test the r606 and newpacs together on a Raspberry Pi 4?  I'm still waiting on my Odroid to arrive.....UPS currently claiming the package is MIA so now having to file a claim and get reimbursed on my purchase :/   So was thinking well, I'll try to pick up a couple of Pi 4's then, one for the small mining farm and the other for a NAS setup.

Thanks

[harmonicdrive]

Has anyone managed to get the R606 to run on a mac?

I can't say I have, I don't have one.  I think you can use a program called mac ports. 

As far as I know the latest Mac OS is Unix based and has a terminal and such.  You could have some luck if you get the linux like terminal up and running using mac ports. 

If I actually had a mac I could probably walk you through it;  I did it one step at a time using google with my last Mac.  What I mean is that I got the linux terminal to a point that I could use WINE and run windows stuff. 

Good luck!

[labe1971]

hello, I recently purchased a usb miner gekko newpack. The miner works well and I tested it on ckpool. but if I want to mine in another pool, cgminer gets stuck in "starting cgminer" how to resolve?

These are the parameters i passed to cgminer:

cgminer -o stratum+tcp://pool.0769.it:3333 -u mywallet --gekko-newpack 100  -p d=128

Thank for the help

[zsmith]

Nowhere on 0769.it does it show it is mining sha256, only scrypt, x11, x16r and Lyra2v2.   Since your miner only mines sha256, I would try mining on a pool that supports that algorithm.

[mstrozier]

hello, I recently purchased a usb miner gekko newpack. The miner works well and I tested it on ckpool. but if I want to mine in another pool, cgminer gets stuck in "starting cgminer" how to resolve?

These are the parameters i passed to cgminer:

cgminer -o stratum+tcp://pool.0769.it:3333 -u mywallet --gekko-newpack 100  -p d=128

Thank for the help

0769.it mining pool only supports x16r, scrypt, x11 and lyra2v2.  Both the Newpac and R606 mines only SHA256.  You will need to find pools that works with the SHA256 algorithm.  If you are trying to get paid out in a different coin other than Bitcoin or other sha256 based coins (peercoin, digibyte, litecoin cash etc) then you may want to point your miners towards prohashing.com and mine in the correct algorithm and get paid in whatever crpyto of your choice.


Well.   Finally had one of these units die on me     The first unit I purchased that would often reset.   Tonight cgminer reported 0 chips on the unit.  After rebooting the box it'll no longer even recognize the device attached.  Not sure where to begin debugging what could have failed.

1st screen shot:  https://ibb.co/XXc1zTR

2nd screen shot:  https://ibb.co/QQdkvQ0

btw, the unit shouldn't have over heated.  Brisk 68/70 Degrees F with a push/pull fan setup on the units (installed a rear fan).  Kind of stumped  

** Edit **
Wanted to update this.  Vendor is working with me on the issue and getting it resolved.  Love this community    Thanks all.

[NeoBeum]

I have a NEWPAC running on a Raspberry Pi 3 from the front USB port on a Xbox One S on standby power.
(Powered by Xbox front USB, not NES)

https://i.imgur.com/acMfEXJ.jpg

Also,  @vh

The r606 branch configure script has a parse error for the latest Raspbian build with GCC 8.3.0.
Line 4033~4044 can't sed the version for loop.

Code:

-V ac_compile &>5

Running autoconfigure again without CFLAG bypasses the gcc checks and then it's able to build.

[sarahsmithe]

Hi everyone!

Would someone please post what speeds and settings they used to get 1TH/s on the r606?

Also if I was to buy a second one, could my rasberry pi run two or more r606s or would I have to get another pi?

Thanks!

[joe7893]

Anyone have a step by step for creating the batch file equivalent for Ubuntu. I just switched over from windows. I am loving it but there is a bit of a learning curve going on.

If I enter it from terminal I can get the test string to work but when I put in my pool info and try again I get an error saying there is an extra command.

Any help appreciated.

UPDATE: I have it running manually now just have to type it all into the command line. So still trying to figure out how to create the batch file equivalent for unbuntu.

[os2sam]

Would someone please post what speeds and settings they used to get 1TH/s on the r606?

On my units I needed 700+ Mhz to get 1Ths.  One needed Voltage Level 5 and the other Level 6.

Also if I was to buy a second one, could my rasberry pi run two or more r606s or would I have to get another pi?

I could only get that speed when running on a Computer with Ubuntu.  My RPi get's 800 to 850 GHs when running one or two units, at total around 1.7Ths.

If I enter it from terminal I can get the test string to work...

What do you mean by test string?

[joe7893]

The example string from the the first post. I now finally have it running (im an idiot was using "zero" instead of "oh" before the pool information.

I still need help figuring out how to create what I now know is called a SH or shell file (Batch in windows). I would like to be able to click in one place to fire things up.

[os2sam]

I still need help figuring out how to create what I now know is called a SH or shell file

mstrozier gave us instructions for setting up an RPi and part of that was creating an sh file.  You can adapt that part of those instructions.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5053833.msg50968875#msg50968875

[DieselWeaseI]

The example string from the the first post. I now finally have it running (im an idiot was using "zero" instead of "oh" before the pool information.

I still need help figuring out how to create what I now know is called a SH or shell file (Batch in windows). I would like to be able to click in one place to fire things up.

open a text editor while in your cgminer folder, enter your parameters the way you would in a Windows batch file and when you are done, save the file as a .sh file instead of a .bat the way you would in Windows. FWIW, I have to run my .sh file as administrator (sudo) to make things happy. I'm no genius at non-Windows stuff, so I haven't tried to change anything to make it just run on a double click.