[GUIDE] GridSeed Blade (80 Chip) Miner Support/Tuning

[rrob]

how can i get cgminer to always detect blades?

[darkfriend77]

Where are you guys purchasing your blades from? Im trying to find a reputable seller ... I see comm issues w/ atari02 (gawminers)... you guys get them anywhere else?

Dark seems to be reliable seller although also being hard to get ahold of.

A very good online seller is https://minereu.com

Yes, I can sell blades ... but at the moment I reduce it to people ... in switzerland (local pickup) ... to avoid getting to much dispatching work. But I might do dispatching for bigger orders to EU ... ust get in contact with me ... :-)

[rrob]

Seems Scripta (scripta-20140408.img.gz mox235 version) image for Rasberry Pi is not hashing stable and swings from 17Mh to 20Mh/s for my 4 Gridseed Blades. If I just use cgminer (http://cryptomining-blog.com/1990-updated-cgminer-3-7-2-with-support-for-gridseed-5-chip-and-80-chip-gc3355-asics/) on windows it will get a stable 22Mh/s, but the only problem is my gridseed blades doesn't always show up even when you unplug and replug in after started and using hotplug=5 or 10.

Using https://github.com/mox235/scripta (scripta-20140408.img.gz)   posted a new version and will test tonight, but bfgminer doesn't produce the same hash power as cgminer on miner or pool side. I can only get 14-16Mh/s with bfgminer.

Hashra 1.4 Image  (just released)  locks you to 800freq or 850freq which isn't good because 838freq is the sweet spot for blades to produce low hw errors. Yes I know a blade version will be released, but I need a solution today.

Only way to get cgminer to detect devices is update driver one by one to the STelectronic driver one then use zadig select device one by one to update WinUSB driver after starting cgminer. Once you close you need to revert the driver back to STelectronic and use WinUSB all over again which is crazy! Any tricks to have cgminer find the devices every time with no issues?

https://github.com/jmordica/cgminer-gc3355 seems to have it stable and doesn't have any issues?? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=571255.0) but I don't know how to compile it for windows or update a raspberry image with his version, if it is stable??
 
Any feedback would greatly be appreciated!

Thanks,
Rob

[sandor111]

Seems Scripta (scripta-20140408.img.gz mox235 version) image for Rasberry Pi is not hashing stable and swings from 17Mh to 20Mh/s for my 4 Gridseed Blades. If I just use cgminer (http://cryptomining-blog.com/1990-updated-cgminer-3-7-2-with-support-for-gridseed-5-chip-and-80-chip-gc3355-asics/) on windows it will get a stable 22Mh/s, but the only problem is my gridseed blades doesn't always show up even when you unplug and replug in after started and using hotplug=5 or 10.

Using https://github.com/mox235/scripta (scripta-20140408.img.gz)   posted a new version and will test tonight, but bfgminer doesn't produce the same hash power as cgminer on miner or pool side. I can only get 14-16Mh/s with bfgminer.

Hashra 1.4 Image  (just released)  locks you to 800freq or 850freq which isn't good because 838freq is the sweet spot for blades to produce low hw errors. Yes I know a blade version will be released, but I need a solution today.

Only way to get cgminer to detect devices is update driver one by one to the STelectronic driver one then use zadig select device one by one to update WinUSB driver after starting cgminer. Once you close you need to revert the driver back to STelectronic and use WinUSB all over again which is crazy! Any tricks to have cgminer find the devices every time with no issues?

https://github.com/jmordica/cgminer-gc3355 seems to have it stable and doesn't have any issues?? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=571255.0) but I don't know how to compile it for windows or update a raspberry image with his version, if it is stable??
 
Any feedback would greatly be appreciated!

Thanks,
Rob

https://github.com/siklon/cpuminer-gc3355
Has Blade support and works pretty well.
Windows Binary: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7z1cj75mhvojjah/minerd-sandor111.exe

Code:

minerd.exe --gc3355=\\.\COMxx,\\.\COMyy,\\.\COMzz --gc3355-autotune --gc3355-chips=40 --freq=825 --url=stratum+tcp://pool:port --userpass=user:pass

[rrob]

Thanks! Any Raspberry images have this latest compiled version or is there a way to make Hashra or Scripta use cpuminer?

[ChekaZ]

Hey guys! Nice guide.

Ive got a few questions.

1. Where to buy?
2. What do I need beside the G-Blade?

Thanks in advance

[pjcltd]

Hey guys! Nice guide.

Ive got a few questions.

1. Where to buy?
2. What do I need beside the G-Blade?

Thanks in advance

Hi Depends on where you are ?

You will need a Good PSU 550w (i have seen posts about the PSU that included in the accessory pack where people are having issues)
2 (1 per Blade) good 5 core USB leads (not the 4 core ones)
A good powered USB 2 Hub
PC / Ras Pi
and you set

[klintay]

Hey guys! Nice guide.

Ive got a few questions.

1. Where to buy?
2. What do I need beside the G-Blade?

Thanks in advance

Hi Depends on where you are ?

You will need a Good PSU 550w (i have seen posts about the PSU that included in the accessory pack where people are having issues)
2 (1 per Blade) good 5 core USB leads (not the 4 core ones)
A good powered USB 2 Hub
PC / Ras Pi
and you set

I have been running three blades from one 12V 30A PSU with no problems but not all PSUs are created equal as they say

[darkfriend77]

Hey guys! Nice guide.

Ive got a few questions.

1. Where to buy?
2. What do I need beside the G-Blade?

Thanks in advance

For switzerland you can buy ... from me ^^

[ChekaZ]

Hey guys! Nice guide.

Ive got a few questions.

1. Where to buy?
2. What do I need beside the G-Blade?

Thanks in advance

For switzerland you can buy ... from me ^^

Iam located in Germany, whats the price from you?

[darkfriend77]

Hey guys! Nice guide.

Ive got a few questions.

1. Where to buy?
2. What do I need beside the G-Blade?

Thanks in advance

For switzerland you can buy ... from me ^^

Iam located in Germany, whats the price from you?

send me a pm ... let's try to keep this thread ... with out sales ...

[pjcltd]

Hi Gus
i just built my self a new linux box to run my 3 blades
and i have install ubuntu 13.10

i have installed cgminer and it runs the blades but i not get the top information on the screen all i  get is this


 [2014-04-24 08:38:26] Accepted 0aa45cf6 Diff 24/16 GSD 3                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 07f34bb6 Diff 32/16 GSD 0                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 0112108e Diff 239/16 GSD 1                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 099c6168 Diff 27/16 GSD 3                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 033420b0 Diff 80/16 GSD 3                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 089b1861 Diff 30/16 GSD 1                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 0e737b94 Diff 18/16 GSD 0                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted a2e955ca Diff 402/16 GSD 1                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 0fabc030 Diff 16/16 GSD 3                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 089de2e9 Diff 30/16 GSD 1                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Found block for pool 0!                   
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 03d1b0cb Diff 17.2K/16 BLOCK! GSD 1                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 07ec563a Diff 32/16 GSD 2                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Network diff set to 0                   
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block                   
 [2014-04-24 08:38:28] Accepted 065791ac Diff 40/16 GSD 0                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:28] Accepted 0bd6f158 Diff 22/16 GSD 2                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:28] Accepted 01e0cf13 Diff 136/16 GSD 0                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:29] Accepted 083ef6a2 Diff 31/16 GSD 3                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:29] Accepted 0de70908 Diff 18/16 GSD 3                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:29] Accepted 0744833f Diff 35/16 GSD 1                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:29] Accepted 074cded0 Diff 35/16 GSD 1               

any ideas what i did wrong ??

[evolvia31]

Hi Gus
i just built my self a new linux box to run my 3 blades
and i have install ubuntu 13.10

i have installed cgminer and it runs the blades but i not get the top information on the screen all i  get is this


 [2014-04-24 08:38:26] Accepted 0aa45cf6 Diff 24/16 GSD 3                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 07f34bb6 Diff 32/16 GSD 0                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 0112108e Diff 239/16 GSD 1                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 099c6168 Diff 27/16 GSD 3                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 033420b0 Diff 80/16 GSD 3                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 089b1861 Diff 30/16 GSD 1                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 0e737b94 Diff 18/16 GSD 0                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted a2e955ca Diff 402/16 GSD 1                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 0fabc030 Diff 16/16 GSD 3                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 089de2e9 Diff 30/16 GSD 1                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Found block for pool 0!                   
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 03d1b0cb Diff 17.2K/16 BLOCK! GSD 1                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 07ec563a Diff 32/16 GSD 2                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Network diff set to 0                   
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block                   
 [2014-04-24 08:38:28] Accepted 065791ac Diff 40/16 GSD 0                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:28] Accepted 0bd6f158 Diff 22/16 GSD 2                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:28] Accepted 01e0cf13 Diff 136/16 GSD 0                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:29] Accepted 083ef6a2 Diff 31/16 GSD 3                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:29] Accepted 0de70908 Diff 18/16 GSD 3                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:29] Accepted 0744833f Diff 35/16 GSD 1                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:29] Accepted 074cded0 Diff 35/16 GSD 1               

any ideas what i did wrong ??

You have a problem with your curses dev Library if you want  top information you must install curses dev Library and compile cgminer with it.

Optional:
   curl dev library    http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/
   (libcurl4-openssl-dev - Must tell configure --disable-libcurl otherwise
   it will attempt to compile it in)

   curses dev library
   (libncurses5-dev or libpdcurses on WIN32 for text user interface)

   libudev dev library (libudev-dev)
   (This is only required for USB device support and is linux only)

CGMiner specific configuration options:

--without-curses        Compile support for curses TUI (default enabled)

[pjcltd]

Hi Gus
i just built my self a new linux box to run my 3 blades
and i have install ubuntu 13.10

i have installed cgminer and it runs the blades but i not get the top information on the screen all i  get is this


 [2014-04-24 08:38:26] Accepted 0aa45cf6 Diff 24/16 GSD 3                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 07f34bb6 Diff 32/16 GSD 0                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 0112108e Diff 239/16 GSD 1                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 099c6168 Diff 27/16 GSD 3                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 033420b0 Diff 80/16 GSD 3                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 089b1861 Diff 30/16 GSD 1                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 0e737b94 Diff 18/16 GSD 0                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted a2e955ca Diff 402/16 GSD 1                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 0fabc030 Diff 16/16 GSD 3                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 089de2e9 Diff 30/16 GSD 1                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Found block for pool 0!                   
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 03d1b0cb Diff 17.2K/16 BLOCK! GSD 1                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 07ec563a Diff 32/16 GSD 2                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Network diff set to 0                   
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block                   
 [2014-04-24 08:38:28] Accepted 065791ac Diff 40/16 GSD 0                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:28] Accepted 0bd6f158 Diff 22/16 GSD 2                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:28] Accepted 01e0cf13 Diff 136/16 GSD 0                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:29] Accepted 083ef6a2 Diff 31/16 GSD 3                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:29] Accepted 0de70908 Diff 18/16 GSD 3                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:29] Accepted 0744833f Diff 35/16 GSD 1                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:29] Accepted 074cded0 Diff 35/16 GSD 1               

any ideas what i did wrong ??

You have a problem with your curses dev Library if you want  top information you must install curses dev Library and compile cgminer with it.

Optional:
   curl dev library    http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/
   (libcurl4-openssl-dev - Must tell configure --disable-libcurl otherwise
   it will attempt to compile it in)

   curses dev library
   (libncurses5-dev or libpdcurses on WIN32 for text user interface)

   libudev dev library (libudev-dev)
   (This is only required for USB device support and is linux only)

CGMiner specific configuration options:

--without-curses        Compile support for curses TUI (default enabled)

still the same
this is what i used


Install Pre-Requisites:
Code:
sudo -s
apt-get update
apt-get install build-essential libtool libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libudev-dev autoconf automake screen

Grab possibly needed packages:
Code:
cd
wget http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.34.0.tar.bz2
wget http://www.digip.org/jansson/releases/jansson-2.5.tar.bz2

Install curl and jansso packages:
Code:
tar -xvf curl-7.34.0.tar.bz2
cd curl-7.34.0/
./configure
make
make install
cd

Code:
tar -xvf jansson-2.5.tar.bz2
cd jansson-2.5/ 
./configure
make
make install
cd

[pjcltd]

Hi Gus
i just built my self a new linux box to run my 3 blades
and i have install ubuntu 13.10

i have installed cgminer and it runs the blades but i not get the top information on the screen all i  get is this


 [2014-04-24 08:38:26] Accepted 0aa45cf6 Diff 24/16 GSD 3                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 07f34bb6 Diff 32/16 GSD 0                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 0112108e Diff 239/16 GSD 1                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 099c6168 Diff 27/16 GSD 3                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 033420b0 Diff 80/16 GSD 3                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 089b1861 Diff 30/16 GSD 1                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 0e737b94 Diff 18/16 GSD 0                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted a2e955ca Diff 402/16 GSD 1                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 0fabc030 Diff 16/16 GSD 3                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 089de2e9 Diff 30/16 GSD 1                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Found block for pool 0!                   
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 03d1b0cb Diff 17.2K/16 BLOCK! GSD 1                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Accepted 07ec563a Diff 32/16 GSD 2                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Network diff set to 0                   
 [2014-04-24 08:38:27] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block                   
 [2014-04-24 08:38:28] Accepted 065791ac Diff 40/16 GSD 0                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:28] Accepted 0bd6f158 Diff 22/16 GSD 2                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:28] Accepted 01e0cf13 Diff 136/16 GSD 0                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:29] Accepted 083ef6a2 Diff 31/16 GSD 3                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:29] Accepted 0de70908 Diff 18/16 GSD 3                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:29] Accepted 0744833f Diff 35/16 GSD 1                     
 [2014-04-24 08:38:29] Accepted 074cded0 Diff 35/16 GSD 1               

any ideas what i did wrong ??

You have a problem with your curses dev Library if you want  top information you must install curses dev Library and compile cgminer with it.

Optional:
   curl dev library    http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/
   (libcurl4-openssl-dev - Must tell configure --disable-libcurl otherwise
   it will attempt to compile it in)

   curses dev library
   (libncurses5-dev or libpdcurses on WIN32 for text user interface)

   libudev dev library (libudev-dev)
   (This is only required for USB device support and is linux only)

CGMiner specific configuration options:

--without-curses        Compile support for curses TUI (default enabled)

still the same
this is what i used


Install Pre-Requisites:
Code:
sudo -s
apt-get update
apt-get install build-essential libtool libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libudev-dev autoconf automake screen

Grab possibly needed packages:
Code:
cd
wget http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.34.0.tar.bz2
wget http://www.digip.org/jansson/releases/jansson-2.5.tar.bz2

Install curl and jansso packages:
Code:
tar -xvf curl-7.34.0.tar.bz2
cd curl-7.34.0/
./configure
make
make install
cd

Code:
tar -xvf jansson-2.5.tar.bz2
cd jansson-2.5/ 
./configure
make
make install
cd

I fixed it
i will post the full info when i get home

[pjcltd]

I fixed it
i will post the full info when i get home

Yes i know that this is on this thread and others BUT
it can get confusing for some of us OLD gits
so i thought i would do it command by command


ok heres what i did
make sure you are sudo su to root
cd   
apt-get install build-essential libtool libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libudev-dev autoconf automake screen
wget http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.34.0.tar.bz2
wget http://www.digip.org/jansson/releases/jansson-2.5.tar.bz2
tar -xvf curl-7.34.0.tar.bz2
cd curl-7.34.0
./configure
make
make install
cd ..

tar -xvf jansson-2.5.tar.bz2
cd jansson-2.5
./configure
make
make install
wget http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/ubuntu/pool/main/a/automake1.11/automake1.11_1.11.6-2_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i automake1.11_1.11.6-2_all.deb
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libjansson.* /usr/lib/
cd ..
git clone https://github.com/jmordica/cgminer-gc3355
if you have a problem with git then use  'apt-get install git'
cd cgminer-gc3355/
./configure --enable-scrypt --enable-gridseed
make

Thats it your done
./cgminer --gridseed-options=baud=115200,freq=800,chips=40,modules=1,usefifo=0,btc=0 --hotplug=0


this works on Ubuntu 13.10  and the new version 14 Ubuntu

Hope this helps someone out.

[GenTarkin]

So, question, the cgminer 3.7.2 that works in windows for the gblade.
The HW count, is that diff1 count or vardiff HW count?

[jmordica]

Here is the compiled cgminer for Raspberry Pi that supports Gridseed: http://0c31ac7857e819701732-7c102875f448c5383a11c1d07426cb3e.r86.cf1.rackcdn.com/cgminer

Here is the source: https://github.com/jmordica/cgminer-gc3355

chips=40 for blade and chips=5 for 5-chip.

[evolvia31]

hi jmordica,

I have a problem with your cgminer with my G-Blade Gridseed (40 chip on board) .

On only one autoswitch pool (not all), when it switch to currency, all shares are reject with this error message:
share is above target rejected

I try to modify diff but i have the same problem.
To solve the problem i must switch to backup pool and when I switch again to the autoswitch pool, that works very fine until pool switch to currency.

Have you an idea to solve the problem ?

[pjcltd]

hi jmordica,

I have a problem with your cgminer with my G-Blade Gridseed (40 chip on board) .

On only one autoswitch pool (not all), when it switch to currency, all shares are reject with this error message:
share is above target rejected

I try to modify diff but i have the same problem.
To solve the problem i must switch to backup pool and when I switch again to the autoswitch pool, that works very fine until pool switch to currency.

Have you an idea to solve the problem ?

What pool are you getting this error on?
I will see if I can point my blades at it and see if I get the same issues