GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread

[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?

no one?

[0bit]

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.

The --enable-blockerupter option is listed in the readme on the cgminer GitHub. That is not what the problem is.

[gt_addict]

I'm not quite sure why you are cross compiling it for windows. It runs better on a linux based OS.

EDIT: Is this any help??

https://arrayfire.com/cross-compile-to-windows-from-linux/

[0bit]

I'm not quite sure why you are cross compiling it for windows. It runs better on a linux based OS.

EDIT: Is this any help??

https://arrayfire.com/cross-compile-to-windows-from-linux/

On the readme the developer states that cgminer is guaranteed to be more stable on a linux based OS, not that it will run better. Performance should be similar across both platforms.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that the article you linked isn't useful to me because I am using MXE (which is what the developer recommends as a cross compilation tool) to compile cgminer

[os2sam]

On the readme the developer states that cgminer is guaranteed to be more stable on a linux based OS, not that it will run better. Performance should be similar across both platforms.

Well, I may not have known what I was talking about with the blockerupter compile switch, which I said at the time.

But I know for a fact that my two R606 Miners run MUCH better on Ubuntu Linux and on the Pi 4 with their raspian distro.  I messed around with Win7 on two different machines, one of which also has the Ubuntu install, I have verified that I could not, in no way, have gotten 1Ths out of either R606 on Win7. But on the Pi 4 and my Ubuntu machine its no problem at all.

I had mined a long time with the ASIC Miner Block Erupters, and my BFL Jalapeno, and would have constant problems with the 78 Block Erupters.  Now I'm wondering if it was the Win7 USB bottleneck?  I'm thinking it was.

So, if your thinking your going to get the same USB performance out of Windoze as with Linux, Your Wrong!  And I mean that as kindly as can be.  Just go back to May of last year when we first got our R606's and witness our issues with Win7 and Win10.  Poor VH finally discontinued support for Windoze after working his but off trying helping us.  -ck, aka "the developer", had dropped support for Windoze quite a while before that.

[gt_addict]

0bit, I totally agree with os2sam. I was one of the people who was having trouble running newpacs on a Win10 pc. I helped get some data together for vh (who developed the “gekko” version of cgminer) to try and get things running stable on Windows machines but it was a PITA. I ended up getting a Pi4 (not a pi3) as it was the best for running them on. They are even tested on Linux machines by the manufacturer.

Performance will be BETTER and it will run BETTER on a linux based OS. The reason being, the asic boost feature of vh’s cgminer will run properly on a linux OS, on a windows machine it wont so you wont reach the potential peak hashrate. Also I found that it would constantly restart the sticks and I ended up running out of USB com ports so eventually they would all stop working on Win10.

But if you are insistent on cross compiling it then feel free to waste your time.


Update on my issues:

So ive been testing it over the past couple of days and it seems to run for almost 24hours on V5 at 600-650m. But seems to always cut out. I've switched it down to 575m V5 to try and run it at almost stock clocks to see how it goes. One thing I have noticed is that it is ALWAYS "chip 0" which doesnt like  the freq. sidehack, would this possibly be the "12 slow" that was marked on the pcb or is that the other end of the string?

[sidehack]

No, 12 would be the 12th chip (indexed as chip 11) at the other end of the string. It would have been replaced before re-testing. I may be remembering a different unit but I believe that chip was having trouble breaking 400MHz.

[gt_addict]

No, 12 would be the 12th chip (indexed as chip 11) at the other end of the string. It would have been replaced before re-testing. I may be remembering a different unit but I believe that chip was having trouble breaking 400MHz.

No worries. It seems that chip 0 always wants to be one step below whatever freq I set it at. I've got another unit on the way which hopefully wont be too long. I may take a closer look at it once it arrives. Do the heatsinks come off at all? I haven't tried yet but didn't notice anything on the areas I could see.

EDIT, Update:
She's been running at 550m V5 for the past couple of days, tried 575m but didnt like it. It seems thats all the puff she has now. At least shes stable though 

[SpceGhst]

In theory, how many 606’s could you run off a 1600 watt 110v circuit?

[os2sam]

My two R606's are pulling 207 Watts, including the Power Supply and minus the Pi 4.

[gt_addict]

What are your settings?

[os2sam]

Both are running 725Mhz, one power level 5 and the other power level 6 for a total of 1.94THs.

[MoparMiningLLC]

nice! i cant get mine to go over 650 mhz even at 650 mhz after a week its down to 350-400 and i have to restart it to get it back up to 650.

[gt_addict]

Got a couple of high end ones there then. I’ve just received my second/replacement and working on building it up to 1th (or close).

[minefarmbuy]

Looks like the announcement thread pictures are not displaying. Maybe it's me on my end?

Just looking to refresh on the voltage settings and how they look displayed on the unit.

[gt_addict]

Looks like the announcement thread pictures are not displaying. Maybe it's me on my end?

Just looking to refresh on the voltage settings and how they look displayed on the unit.

I googled it and found a picture. But it would be handy if the first post pics were back up.

[os2sam]

Looks like the announcement thread pictures are not displaying. Maybe it's me on my end?

Just looking to refresh on the voltage settings and how they look displayed on the unit.

The pic's in that thread have been down for a really long time now.
Here's the reply I got from the other thread:

What happened to the images in the top post?  They are all gone or blocked.

Photobucket blocked them because they are trying to extort $399 per year subscription fee for those who want to hotlink images from Photobucket’s servers to display elsewhere.    You can still see the pics if you go directly to Sidehack's photobucket's page:  https://s648.photobucket.com/user/sidehack128/library?page=1.  You have to disable your adblocker though and Photobucket has more ads than AOL back in 1999. If you go there, be prepared to be gang-raped by pop-ups, loud videos about household cleaning products, and countless banners trying to convince you to buy a printed mug of the TR-606.  Photobucket sounds like a ransomware racket, I'm surprised they're not asking for payment in Bitcoin to see your own pics.

[sidehack]

I'll probably fix it sometime. I tended to lean on my webserver for image hosting but the connection was fairly slow so I also used photobucket. The server's now set up in an actual data center with a solid connection so I should port everything over to it.

[ParaplegicRacehorse]

In preparation for picking up my newpacs and hub from 419mining, the following questions are important, because I'm too dumb to figure it out from the github repo:

Has the r606 branch been merged with master, or is it still recommended to build from r606 (if I want autotune and other new features)?

Once autotune has settled on a good frequency, can I then disable autotune for future restarts and set the tuned freq in cgminer.conf? Understanding that each I may lose optimal tuning on future restarts, but this would allow for rapid ramp-up to "good enough."

Is there a setting to cause autotune to choose best hash:power ratio, when that is less than max hash rate?

Thanks a bunch.

(eegads, weeding through 80 pages of posts is exhausting. Admittedly, after around page 35, I just skimmed for posts from sidehack and vh making sure I spotted all the software update notes.)

[419mining]

I know its daunting looking through the 80 pages of posts. Maybe Sidehack/VH can update the first page with all the config settings cgminer now supports?

you may want to try --gekko-start-freq, I havent gone through the code on github to see if it works for terminus but it would be worth a quick try. like you said, letting it autotune is best, but this is the one your looking for: --gekko-tune-down

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5053833.msg50506833#msg50506833

 [90-95]% is a healthy range, 95 is default, set to 0 to disable.
        1.  Adjusts frequency according to each miner's unique charateristics
        2.  To keep a hash performance above 95%.
        3.  Based on the idea that (95% of 275MHz) hashes better than (80% of 300MHz)