lol.
You are hopeless sir, completely hopeless.
Here's a bone for you; the version you have will actually run on a Mini, however it will try to initialize as a large. After a couple of retry conditions it will successfully bring a mini up, but data outputs such as fan speed and temperature will either be unreliable or not respond at all. Second, there are certain error conditions where the Z9 firmware running on a Mini will fail completely even after a successful start due to the ASIC count being off by 12 per chain.
Good luck with your endeavors.
-j
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The issue with it dropping on a mini is the detection of errors will look for 8 of 16 asics and a 4 count is too little or fan/tmp. That is at least from my playing that is what I have come up with.
That edit you just made to your response to add what I left quoted is a perfect example of why you are hopeless... I *LITERALLY* told you that in my response when I said "... ASIC count being off by 12 per chain". ... and that is NOT the reason why fan/temp won't work properly.
... on first start up, it will retry 3 times, not have the proper count, but continue on anyway (factory behaviour). I said this when I said "... after a couple of retry conditions...".
The problem is *PAST* that case, after things are running, even if fan/temp are not presenting properly, there are additional failure conditions that will terminate cgminer and restart the whole process in a longer loop.
There are very good reasons why I did not "unify" the firmware so one could run on both models...
*sigh*.
"Honey, I can't go to bed yet, someone is wrong on the Internet!"
-j
Let me rephrase it, Some of the conditions are because the asic count and others conditions are fan/tmp related, that I knew even with factory firmware. I guess should have said I agree with you rather then spell it out.
That problem can be fixed with code from a mini version of cgminer or by extracting the equihash ProgPow and whatever else is needed for the z9 and mini then recompiling a new version with the auto-tune and nicehash fixes that have been implemented in other versions of cgminer
I guess if you think I am so hopeless, you dont have nothing to worry about on future releases then or getting a mini to run correct dev free.
