GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread

[desertfox470]

Also is this in its on .sh file? or are you typing it in to a terminal everytime?

I am just typing it into the terminal every time.

First, can you confirm you have some active cooling? above 100Mhz, newpacs get very hot and will jump into thermal runaway and shutdown/burn out very fast.

What exactly is happening when you try to overclock? Is it throwing an error or just not allowing you to set it above 100Mhz?

Yes, I have 2 120mm fans cooling them atm. When I try to overclock them for a split second they show 200 Mhz, then they all reset back down to 100 Mhz. No errors or anything is getting thrown.

Also make sure there's not a config file overriding your command line settings.

Currently, I don't see a config file titled cgminer.conf. Is this what you are referring to?


I got them to work. I ended up scrapping my ubuntu install and just downloaded raspbarian. They ended up going to 200 Mhz. Thanks everyone!

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[gt_addict]

Update on my R606. It ran 24 hours on 650m V6 so tried bumping it up to 700. Immediately threw a wobbly so turned it back down. It seems its no longer happy at anything above 650m.

What would be the reason for it suddenly not being happy where it was? degradation in the chips perhaps?

[os2sam]

Update on my R606. It ran 24 hours on 650m V6 so tried bumping it up to 700. Immediately threw a wobbly so turned it back down. It seems its no longer happy at anything above 650m.

What would be the reason for it suddenly not being happy where it was? degradation in the chips perhaps?

Just a WAG, but it sounds like you heat damaged it with the filter restricting air flow?  You said it was really hot.

My batch 2 unit was happy at 750 for a long time, then chip 4 would drop out every morning and then come back up.  So I dropped my target to 725 and it seems fine now and mine never got hot.  But I may have to change my expectations again down the road.  The stock is 550Mhz after all

I feel like I have gotten good mileage out of my two units.

[gt_addict]

It wasnt really hot like you would burn yourself. But hotter than i expected. It never had the flashing lights related to temp either. Ran for over a month with no issues at all.

Fully appreciate this is out of its standard range of operation and fully expect something to happen but I’m curious what the cause could be. No other reason than my own lockdown boredom curiosity lol

Edit. Boredom got the better of me to taking it apart to look for any damage they may have been caused when it was running hotter than expected. Nothing of note although mine has got some writing on it saying “12 Slow”. Have I stumbled across a secret binning note? 

[os2sam]

INothing of note although mine has got some writing on it saying “12 Slow”. Have I stumbled across a secret binning note? 

Mine says 856.  Sidehack has to work on his fortune cookie messages

[sidehack]

If there's a number on the heatsink it's the bench serial number used to identify them during assembly and testing. Once they're done testing the final step is re-flashing with the unique serial number and another quick test before packaging.

If something fails test I'll make a note of the problem so I can fix it. The "12 slow" means the last chip in the string was dropping speed during burn-in, so I took it apart and replaced that chip then ran it again.

[gt_addict]

Yea I thought that was a bench testing related number on the heatsink. Just curious about the pcb note.

While it was apart I made a slight alteration. Fitted an angled fan adaptor duct and a 92mm fan I had laying around. Increased flow a bit to combat the filter and also a tad quieter (not that it was necessary, just a bonus).

https://imgur.com/a/JB0eCNh

Shes also running 675m V6 now so will see that goes.

[bluudz]

Hello. It is close to impossible to get multiple Gekko Science miners to work at 500Mhz! Got orangepi, gekko usb brick and 3 stick by now, to get each to work at 500MHz takes quite a lot of time, but when I plug them in all. No chance! Resetting, down clocking, crashing. Even tho I didn't expect any return from any of this mining, I really though  I can just get couple of those to run stable..but no not really.

Quite disappointed after days of voltage tweeking and moving stick by stick all around the hub...
Feels like cardinal waste of money trying to have small usb mining farm...Yes ofc I know 500Mhz is high..

[gt_addict]

What OS are you running on the pi? What version of the Orange Pi is it? You dont need to touch the voltage pot on the newpacs. You should be able to get 500m on stock voltage.

[bluudz]

What OS are you running on the pi? What version of the Orange Pi is it? You dont need to touch the voltage pot on the newpacs. You should be able to get 500m on stock voltage.

Orange Pi 3, Armbian Bionic 20.02.1, Sipolar USB 10 ports 60w, Arctic Cooler active fan.
I seem to be unable to even get second stick to run at 500Mhz. Always downlocks to 470-85Mhz, if I connect three one is dropping with 0 chips found. The other two seem now stable at 450Mhz.

[gt_addict]

Do you know how the USB bus is arranged on the Orange Pi? On the Raspi3 the usb bus and ethernet were linked so caused problems. Also you would need to find out how the power is spilt up on the sipolar hub. I know you said you have tried different ports but if you dont know how its split then you could be pushing a regulator too far and its dropping the stick.

[Linightz]

Hi, I've encountered some issue running gekko on my orangepi.

I'm using ssh to access my orangepi and using screen/tmux to keep cgminer running after i log out the ssh session. Weird thing is, if I keep the ssh session running the cgminer works fine, but if i log out for a while, the cgminer will stop in mins and show "usb transfer err:(-9) LIBUSB_ERROR_PIPE 3476 Segmentation fault", and mining stops.

Could anyone help?

[bluudz]

Do you know how the USB bus is arranged on the Orange Pi? On the Raspi3 the usb bus and ethernet were linked so caused problems. Also you would need to find out how the power is spilt up on the sipolar hub. I know you said you have tried different ports but if you dont know how its split then you could be pushing a regulator too far and its dropping the stick.

No I don't know, but will try to find out. Also I don't know where to look for sipolars usb bus, I was expecting to receive details in the package with shipment, but that didn't happen. Wasn't it made by someone here I could contact directly?

What do you guys to run those mining farms? Raspi4?

[os2sam]

What do you guys to run those mining farms? Raspi4?

Yes, I use a Pi4 for my two R606's.  No hub needed for me.

I wasted allot of time dinking around with a couple Win7 machines.  It was slightly fun and educational.  But I love my Pi4.

[gt_addict]

No I don't know, but will try to find out. Also I don't know where to look for sipolars usb bus, I was expecting to receive details in the package with shipment, but that didn't happen. Wasn't it made by someone here I could contact directly?

What do you guys to run those mining farms? Raspi4?

Not sure if someone on here made the Sipolar one. I seem to remember klintay (eyeboot ltd) made a hub for block eruptors.

Just get yourself a mid level raspi4 then you rule out any potential OS issues. I’ve got a 2GB Pi4 and it runs fine. Only issue I have recently is my R606 has thrown its toys out the pram so had to turn the clock back to 625m V5.

[bluudz]

Do you reckon that 60W Sipolar brick should manage 4 NewPacs, or is it not enough?

[0bit]

Is there any way I could get some help compiling cgminer? I cloned the repository listed in the OP and followed the instructions given by user vh on the first page. However, make fails with the following error:

Code:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lws2_32
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lwinmm
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Anybody know how I fix this?
EDIT: It's worth mentioning as well that I am trying to cross compile this to run on Windows
EDIT 2: Also worth mentioning I am using different options for configure.

Code:

./configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32.static --disable-gpu --enable-bflsc --enable-gekko --enable-blockerupter --disable-shared

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Update: after recompiling MXE I am now getting a different error

Code:

CC cgminer-driver-blockerupter.o
CC cgminer-driver-gekko.o
CCLD cgminer.exe
cgminer-crc16.o: file not recognized: File format not recognized
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

[gt_addict]

Do you reckon that 60W Sipolar brick should manage 4 NewPacs, or is it not enough?

Not sure. As I said already it depends how the power is split on the ports. On the GekkoHub sidehack has marked which ports share a regulator so you can tune the sticks and know how much you can draw.

[os2sam]

Also worth mentioning I am using different options for configure.

Code:

./configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32.static --disable-gpu --enable-bflsc --enable-gekko --enable-blockerupter --disable-shared

You need to read the CGminer readme files and check the CGMiner thread.

I know very little about compiling the source.  But there is no "--enable-blockerupter" option as it uses the icarus driver, there is no need to disable gpu support as that was removed in 4.8, I beleive, and I have never seen an "disable" switch so I don't think there is any need for that.