[ANN] Spondoolies-Tech - carrier grade, data center ready mining rigs

[RealMalatesta]

You will need a micro-SD of at least 4GB and micro-SD to USB converter (card reader).

Download Win32 Disk Imager (project site http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager)
Download the recovery disk compressed image file from here for SP-windows-image  (120 MB).
Extract the file from #2, and store it in a location of choice. (e.g. C:\Users\Public\recoverysd.img 2GB image)
Insert an microSD Card - either formatted or blank - to the card reader.
Make sure that the card can be seen as a disk drive. If it's not formatted, and windows pops-up a format request – you can dismiss it.
Using Win32 Disk Imager write the image file (from #3) onto the microSD card disk drive.
When write is complete - download one of the following images:  SP10 or SP2x/SP3x.
Open the spond_images_spXX.zip - it will create spond_images_spXX directory with the needed files. It has two folders - one for SD recovery and one for booting from SD. You probably need the recovery, unless your mmc is bad. Each folder has two folders inside - one for each partition of the SD card.
Copy the files from the first partition to the SD-card. Don't override the MLO file, but override the other files.
It is now can be used as a the miner recovery media.
Skip the section about Linux and go to Miner recovery or Miner boot.

Did you do these step as well (I saw on your post the copying of the folder).  Even though it says SP10 on the Technical post above the part it's the main part needed or the SD card will not become bootable by the unit.

You can also make an image to perm. run from the SD card until a final answer is gotten.

i only have mac's at home, so i'll go through these steps fully tomorrow when i can take the miner to a win machine. (not sure if it should make a difference)

You could put the SD-card in your mac and make a fsck there. Otherwise, you could get the card from a working SP20, make a dd-image, then put the dd-image on your SD-card of the non-working machine...

[Biodom]

For making micro SD on a Mac before I followed this:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=515448.msg6315538#msg6315538
below is the quote with my modifications. EDIT: I also crossed the download firmware part because this might be irrelevant.

- ran to the store and bought a 4gb Sandisk microSD card. They didn't have any class 10 cards, only class 4, but it seems to work (ordered a couple class 10s from Amazon for backup).
- Downloaded onto my MacBook [the latest firmware from the [competitor] website, as well as] the SD card image from >snipped competitor image, replace with Spond image<
- put the new microSD card in the adapter, shoved it into my MacBook, read through the guide at http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup, and then ran these commands in Terminal:
   cd Desktop (your [image name].img will be most likely on the desktop, or drag it on the desktop if it is in the download folder initially)
   diskutil list (to find the disk name of SD card, mine was disk2, so replace disk2 below with what yours is)
   diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2
   sudo dd bs=1m if=[image name].img of=/dev/disk2 (this took 30 minutes to complete)
- once SD card was ready, follow the rest of Spond procedure and you are golden.

I did this for S2 microSD on Macbook air and it worked like a charm.
I asked Zvi to post adaptation of Linux procedure to Terminal/mac before, but he did not get to it yet.

[raskul]

Try this from SSH
cd /usr/sbin

./lighttpd -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

See if it kicks up the gui atleast.

Code:

miner-FL1448081687# cd /usr/sbin
miner-FL1448081687# ./lighttpd -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
2015-01-03 17:46:43: (configfile.c.1240) a default document-root has to be set 
2015-01-03 17:46:43: (server.c.646) setting default values failed 

i ran cgminer and it stated

Code:

miner-FL1448081687# cgminer
 [2015-01-03 17:46:06] Started cgminer 4.8.0                    
Init
FLUSH!
 [2015-01-03 17:46:06] Need to specify at least one pool server.                    
 [2015-01-03 17:46:06] Pool setup failed     

what would the ssh command be to add a pool?

I'm going by my current PS on one of my SP20s. 

/usr/local/bin/cgminer --text-only --config /etc/cgminer.conf

But for sake of testing you can drop --text-only.

it would seem that I need to keep terminal open when using

Code:

/usr/local/bin/cgminer --text-only --config /etc/cgminer.conf 

otherwise the miner stops hashing.

[wh00per]

To run a process in the background, include an & (an ampersand) at the end of the command you use to run the job.

see more stuff here >> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-command-line-run-in-background/

[jjiimm_64]

To run a process in the background, include an & (an ampersand) at the end of the command you use to run the job.

see more stuff here >> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-command-line-run-in-background/

or screen

[wpgdeez]

My SP10 sure is liking the -30 intake temps. If I could supply more power to the miner I'm sure I could get the hash up even more! 1.43 Thash.

AC2DC power=1261[1265], temp=0, leading zeroes=41
L |Vtrm/max  |vlt|Wt|Am|DCt|crt|Gh|Ov|ID |aTMP|Freq |Th|Bt|Engn|Wn |ID |aTMP|Freq |Th|Bt|Engn|Wn |ID |aTMP|Freq |Th|Bt|Engn|Wn |ID |aTMP|Freq |Th|Bt|Engn|Wn
 0|fff9(   d)|695|41|59| 61|230|62| 0|  0: 77c 525hz( 0/ 0) 7fff168|  1: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff164|  2: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff155|  3: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff124
                                     |  4: 77c 540hz( 0/ 0) 7fff162|  5: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff136|  6: 77c 525hz( 0/ 0) 7fff139|  7: 77c 525hz( 0/ 0) 7fff150
 1|fffa(   d)|698|41|59| 52|1f8|63| 0|  8: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff161|  9: 77c 540hz( 0/ 0) 7fff159| 10: 77c 540hz( 0/ 0) 7fff175| 11: 77c 525hz( 0/ 0) 7fff162
                                     | 12: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff142| 13: 77c 525hz( 0/ 0) 7fff150| 14: 77c 525hz( 0/ 0) 7fff162| 15: 77c 525hz( 0/ 0) 7fff173
 2|fff9(   d)|695|41|59| 47| 1a|63| 0| 16: 77c 540hz( 0/ 0) 7fff182| 17: 77c 525hz( 0/ 0) 7fff168| 18: 77c 525hz( 0/ 0) 7fff165| 19: 77c 525hz( 0/ 0) 7fff151
                                     | 20: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff144| 21: 77c 525hz( 0/ 0) 7fff151| 22: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff163| 23: 77c 540hz( 0/ 0) 7fff175
 3|fffc(   d)|703|42|60| 48| 1b|64| 0| 24: 77c 525hz( 0/ 0) 7fff147| 25: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff159| 26: 77c 540hz( 0/ 0) 7fff184| 27: 77c 570hz( 0/ 0) 7fff164
                                     | 28: 77c 555hz( 0/ 0) 7fff155| 29: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff154| 30: 77c 525hz( 0/ 0) 7fff156| 31: 77c 570hz( 0/ 0) 7fff181
 4|fff5(   d)|685|41|60| 60| df|60| 0| 32: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff167| 33: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff161| 34: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff155| 35: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff123
                                     | 36: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff149| 37: 77c 480hz( 0/ 0) 7fff132| 38: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff162| 39: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff154
 5|fff6(   d)|688|40|58| 58|180|61| 0| 40: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff157| 41: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff157| 42: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff157| 43: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff137
                                     | 44: 77c 525hz( 0/ 0) 7fff189| 45: 77c 540hz( 0/ 0) 7fff149| 46: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff152| 47: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff167
 6|fff7(   d)|690|41|60| 49|  f|60| 0| 48: 77c 525hz( 0/ 0) 7fff167| 49: 77c 480hz( 0/ 0) 7fff152| 50: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff145| 51: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff133
                                     | 52: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff180| 53: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff135| 54: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff147| 55: 77c 540hz( 0/ 0) 7fff148
 7|fff7(   d)|690|40|58| 64|140|62| 0| 56: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff137| 57: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff158| 58: 77c 525hz( 0/ 0) 7fff139| 59: 77c 540hz( 0/ 0) 7fff174
                                     | 60: 77c 540hz( 0/ 0) 7fff167| 61: 77c 525hz( 0/ 0) 7fff146| 62: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff149| 63: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff153
 8|fff3(   d)|680|39|57| 59| b1|58| 0| 64: 77c 465hz( 0/ 0) 7fff116| 65: 77c 465hz( 0/ 0) 7fff139| 66: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff144| 67: 77c 480hz( 0/ 0) 7fff158
                                     | 68: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff156| 69: 77c 480hz( 0/ 0) 7fff135| 70: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff127| 71: 77c 480hz( 0/ 0) 7fff138
 9|fff4(   d)|682|38|57| 61| 80|60| 0| 72: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 57ff131| 73: 77c 480hz( 0/ 0) 7fff169| 74: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff145| 75: 77c 525hz( 0/ 0) 7fff149
                                     | 76: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff174| 77: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff144| 78: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff142| 79: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff153
10|fff7(   d)|690|40|59| 60| 70|60| 0| 80: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff141| 81: 77c 525hz( 0/ 0) 7fff152| 82: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff134| 83: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff176
                                     | 84: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff123| 85: 77c 525hz( 0/ 0) 7fff189| 86: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff130| 87: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff166
11|fffa(   d)|698|41|59| 58| 70|61| 0| 88: 77c 525hz( 0/ 0) 7fff164| 89: 77c 525hz( 0/ 0) 7fff146| 90: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff165| 91: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff146
                                     | 92: 77c 540hz( 0/ 0) 7dff148| 93: 77c 465hz( 0/ 0) 7fff136| 94: 77c 525hz( 0/ 0) 7fff151| 95: 77c 525hz( 0/ 0) 7fff151
12|fff3(   d)|680|38|56| 63|280|59| 0| 96: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff147| 97: 77c 525hz( 0/ 0) 7fff162| 98: 77c 480hz( 0/ 0) 7fff150| 99: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff153
                                     |100: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff151|101: 77c 480hz( 0/ 0) 7fff149|102: 77c 480hz( 0/ 0) 7fff147|103: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff171
13|fff5(   d)|685|38|56| 70|190|59| 0|104: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff152|105: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff158|106: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff144|107: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff150
                                     |108: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff136|109: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff132|110: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff144|111: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff155
14|fff6(   d)|688|40|58| 61|1f0|60| 0|112: 77c 525hz( 0/ 0) 7fff146|113: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff135|114: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff178|115: 77c 525hz( 0/ 0) 7fff175
                                     |116: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff139|117: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff154|118: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff151|119: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff149
15|fff6(   d)|688|40|58| 55|1b5|61| 0|120: 77c 525hz( 0/ 0) 7fff172|121: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff143|122: 77c 480hz( 0/ 0) 7fff147|123: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff129
                                     |124: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff133|125: 77c 525hz( 0/ 0) 7fff157|126: 77c 540hz( 0/ 0) 7fff154|127: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff159
16|fff0(   d)|672|38|57| 66|180|56| 0|128: 77c 465hz( 0/ 0) 7fff119|129: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff149|130: 77c 465hz( 0/ 0) 7fff152|131: 77c 480hz( 0/ 0) 7fff154
                                     |132: 77c 465hz( 0/ 0) 7fff134|133: 77c 450hz( 0/ 0) 7fff128|134: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff129|135: 77c 465hz( 0/ 0) 7fff125
17|ffef(   d)|669|36|54| 72|130|57| 0|136: 77c 480hz( 0/ 0) 7fff152|137: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff132|138: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff163|139: 77c 450hz( 0/ 0) 7fff121
                                     |140: 77c 480hz( 0/ 0) 7fff145|141: 77c 450hz( 0/ 0) 7fff148|142: 77c 480hz( 0/ 0) 7fff152|143: 77c 480hz( 0/ 0) 7fff121
18|fff2(   d)|677|39|58| 61| d0|58| 0|144: 77c 480hz( 0/ 0) 7fff137|145: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff153|146: 77c 450hz( 0/ 0) 7fff134|147: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff143
                                     |148: 77c 465hz( 0/ 0) 7fff148|149: 77c 480hz( 0/ 0) 7fff147|150: 77c 480hz( 0/ 0) 7fff133|151: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff143
19|fff0(   d)|672|37|56| 64| c0|58| 0|152: 77c 465hz( 0/ 0) 7fff132|153: 77c 480hz( 0/ 0) 7fff156|154: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff138|155: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff144
                                     |156: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff135|157: 77c 465hz( 0/ 0) 7fff119|158: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff170|159: 77c 480hz( 0/ 0) 7fff150
20|ffed(   d)|664|36|54| 72| c0|55| 0|160: 77c 465hz( 0/ 0) 7fff146|161: 77c 465hz( 0/ 0) 7fff146|162: 77c 450hz( 0/ 0) 7fff122|163: 77c 465hz( 0/ 0) 7fff134
                                     |164: 77c 450hz( 0/ 0) 7fff156|165: 77c 465hz( 0/ 0) 7fff137|166: 77c 465hz( 0/ 0) 7fff145|167: 77c 480hz( 0/ 0) 7fff136
21|ffec(   d)|661|35|54| 73| c0|55| 0|168: 77c 435hz( 0/ 0) 7fff114|169: 77c 450hz( 0/ 0) 7fff129|170: 77c 465hz( 0/ 0) 7fff134|171: 77c 465hz( 0/ 0) 7fff125
                                     |172: 77c 480hz( 0/ 0) 7fff134|173: 77c 465hz( 0/ 0) 7fff144|174: 77c 465hz( 0/ 0) 7fff129|175: 77c 450hz( 0/ 0) 7fff126
22|ffef(   d)|669|37|56| 69| 90|57| 0|176: 77c 480hz( 0/ 0) 7fff156|177: 77c 480hz( 0/ 0) 7fff114|178: 77c 480hz( 0/ 0) 7fff136|179: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff150
                                     |180: 77c 465hz( 0/ 0) 7fff145|181: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff149|182: 77c 480hz( 0/ 0) 7fff140|183: 77c 465hz( 0/ 0) 7fff151
23|fff2(   d)|677|39|58| 68| 80|58| 0|184: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff150|185: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff151|186: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff179|187: 77c 480hz( 0/ 0) 7fff159
                                     |188: 77c 480hz( 0/ 0) 7fff154|189: 77c 510hz( 0/ 0) 7fff136|190: 77c 495hz( 0/ 0) 7fff154|191: 77c 480hz( 0/ 0) 7fff138
[H:HW:1437Gh/Th:1437Gh/W:1437Gh,W:950,L:24,A:192,ER:1437,EP:1222,MMtmp:0]
Pushed 543 jobs , in queue 75 jobs!
wins:28564[fp:0], leading-zeroes:41 idle:0/0
Adapter queues: rsp=40, req=289

[Biffa]

To run a process in the background, include an & (an ampersand) at the end of the command you use to run the job.

see more stuff here >> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-command-line-run-in-background/

or screen

Unfortunately no screen on SP kit

[s1gs3gv]

Fellas you might want to look at bitcoin prices today before you start another group buy.

299 great  I am hoping for a drop to 200 .

Looks like you will get your wish soon.

[Biffa]

Fellas you might want to look at bitcoin prices today before you start another group buy.

299 great  I am hoping for a drop to 200 .

Looks like you will get your wish soon.

At this rate, if you buy with btc, its going to be tough buying miners to keep up with the spiralling difficulty.

[philipma1957]

Fellas you might want to look at bitcoin prices today before you start another group buy.

299 great  I am hoping for a drop to 200 .

Looks like you will get your wish soon.

At this rate, if you buy with btc, its going to be tough buying miners to keep up with the spiralling difficulty.

and now I buy into the dropping coins.   since I can only buy 1000 usd on coinbase.

 I buy .25 coins every 4 hours  as a hedge. If price goes over 300 I stop buying the coins.

[Biffa]

Fellas you might want to look at bitcoin prices today before you start another group buy.

299 great  I am hoping for a drop to 200 .

Looks like you will get your wish soon.

At this rate, if you buy with btc, its going to be tough buying miners to keep up with the spiralling difficulty.

and now I buy into the dropping coins.   since I can only buy 1000 usd on coinbase.

 I buy .25 coins every 4 hours  as a hedge. If price goes over 300 I stop buying the coins.

And do you stop if the price goes below XXX?

[jjiimm_64]

Fellas you might want to look at bitcoin prices today before you start another group buy.

299 great  I am hoping for a drop to 200 .

Looks like you will get your wish soon.

At this rate, if you buy with btc, its going to be tough buying miners to keep up with the spiralling difficulty.

and now I buy into the dropping coins.   since I can only buy 1000 usd on coinbase.

 I buy .25 coins every 4 hours  as a hedge. If price goes over 300 I stop buying the coins.

just bot some myself at 282....

[mavericklm]

Any way, trick, ssh or something to take out the 288W limit on sp20? ? ? ? ? ? ?
thx!

[jjiimm_64]

Any way, trick, ssh or something to take out the 288W limit on sp20? ? ? ? ? ? ?
thx!

How many watts do you think you can safely pull thru a 6pin pci?

[philipma1957]

Fellas you might want to look at bitcoin prices today before you start another group buy.

299 great  I am hoping for a drop to 200 .

Looks like you will get your wish soon.

At this rate, if you buy with btc, its going to be tough buying miners to keep up with the spiralling difficulty.

and now I buy into the dropping coins.   since I can only buy 1000 usd on coinbase.

 I buy .25 coins every 4 hours  as a hedge. If price goes over 300 I stop buying the coins.

And do you stop if the price goes below XXX?

Yes I rethink everything at 200 usd. 

that is my bottom.

 so I range 200-300    for the time being.  it is a juggling act.

[mavericklm]

Dunno
Standardized 6pin is 75watt, but this is much smaller wattage than what it can be pulled thru.
I'm now at max ~288w and i want more!
If necessary i can look for converging 2*6pin into 1 stronger 6pin. see knc neptune!

[jjiimm_64]

Dunno
Standardized 6pin is 75watt, but this is much smaller wattage than what it can be pulled thru.
I'm now at max ~288w and i want more!
If necessary i can look for converging 2*6pin into 1 stronger 6pin. see knc neptune!

I think it would be better to just get another sp20 and downvolt...  1220gh at 650w...   your getting about 1650 at 1240w   you could get 2440gh at 1300 watts with 2

edit:  they would probably last longer too.

[Biffa]

Dunno
Standardized 6pin is 75watt, but this is much smaller wattage than what it can be pulled thru.
I'm now at max ~288w and i want more!
If necessary i can look for converging 2*6pin into 1 stronger 6pin. see knc neptune!

only see the wrong design from the very first SP20 .  There should be a 8x PCI-E.

true. maxing out power rating for the socket is very wrong decision

Please continue SP20 related technical discussions in our thread.
The manufacture takes 20% margines over the 288 Watt rating.

[mavericklm]

I'd like to overclock, not downclock!
Yes, they will last longer, but I will not need them long time. New gear is coming, new upgrades

[Biffa]

I'd like to overclock, not downclock!
Yes, they will last longer, but I will not need them long time. New gear is coming, new upgrades

Have you tried just entering a higher number?