[Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive RockMiner R-Box Setup [HD]

[CrazyGuy]

Guide says to use:

Code:

--anu-freq 270

This should be amended to:

Code:

--rmu-freq 270

You can see the freq in the top.  If you use AMU, nothing changes.

--anu-freq is correct, but Rockminer's 4.3.3 build has an issue with frequency settings. You'll need to either build it for yourself or use the version of cgminer included with my installer.

[joeventura]

Dogie,

Had to make a TRUST entry for you,

You are such an asset to the BTC community.

Thanks for all you do!

[dogie]

Dogie,

Had to make a TRUST entry for you,

You are such an asset to the BTC community.

Thanks for all you do!

Thanks. As of Wednesday I'll be here full time, more planned.

[TracerX]

Dogie,

Had to make a TRUST entry for you,

You are such an asset to the BTC community.

Thanks for all you do!

Thanks. As of Wednesday I'll be here full time, more planned.

+1 millionty

[Spotswood]

What are the dimensions of the heatsinks?

[dogie]

What are the dimensions of the heatsinks?

What specific bit, they're quite contoured and are definitely custom. I'd have to take on apart again.

[Spotswood]

What are the dimensions of the heatsinks?

What specific bit, they're quite contoured and are definitely custom. I'd have to take on apart again.

I just need the outer dimensions in order to properly size a case for them, ala:  



The heatsinks will rest on the bottom "lip" of the support beams, so I just need to know how much room is required between the beams.

[dogie]

What are the dimensions of the heatsinks?

What specific bit, they're quite contoured and are definitely custom. I'd have to take on apart again.

I just need the outer dimensions in order to properly size a case for them, ala:  

The heatsinks will rest on the bottom "lip" of the support beams, so I just need to know how much room is required between the beams.

The fins are 89mm tips to tips while the bottom bracket is 86mm. The bracket is 4mm thick. http://imgur.com/JtoRu0B

[philipma1957]

nice clear guide good job as you normally do.  I will now try to see if I can get it to work.  thanks


working now and using a sea sonic 1200 watt platinum psu.  with some pcie adapters.

two of these with the high end psu use under 70 watts I am impressed.  also very quiet.

[owenmc60]

Does anyone have a guide to getting the R-Box running off a Raspberry Pi? Cheers!

[dogie]

Does anyone have a guide to getting the R-Box running off a Raspberry Pi? Cheers!

It will get messy due to the zavig requirement, will be possible though.

[davecoin]

I have 2 units plugged into my main windows 7 pc.  After a reboot, one rbox will no longer be recognized by cgminer.  The other one immediately flashes a blue light and starts hashing when cgminer starts.  

I've tried:

Swapping the power cables and usb cables
New usb cable
uninstalling the devices in device manager
reinstalling winusb drivers in zadig
different usb ports

The 2nd rbox won't show up in CrazyGuy's cgminer or the cgminer provided by rockminer.

If I unplug the usb cable from the non working unit, I get the following output:

Code:

  [2014-06-08 16:47:59] AMU 0 GetResults usb read err:(-1) LIBUSB_ERROR_IO
 [2014-06-08 16:47:59] AMU 0 attempted reset got err:(0) LIBUSB_SUCCESS
 [2014-06-08 16:47:59] AMU 0 GetResults usb read err:(-1) LIBUSB_ERROR_IO
 [2014-06-08 16:47:59] AMU0: Comms error (rerr=-1 amt=0)
 [2014-06-08 16:47:59] FAIL: USB get_lock not found (1:2)
 [2014-06-08 16:47:59] FAIL: USB remove not already in use (1:2)

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Dave

[dogie]

I have 2 units plugged into my main windows 7 pc.  After a reboot, one rbox will no longer be recognized by cgminer.  The other one immediately flashes a blue light and starts hashing when cgminer starts. 

I've tried:

Swapping the power cables and usb cables
New usb cable
uninstalling the devices in device manager
reinstalling winusb drivers in zadig
different usb ports

The 2nd rbox won't show up in CrazyGuy's cgminer or the cgminer provided by rockminer.

If I unplug the usb cable from the non working unit, I get the following output:

Code:

  [2014-06-08 16:47:59] AMU 0 GetResults usb read err:(-1) LIBUSB_ERROR_IO
 [2014-06-08 16:47:59] AMU 0 attempted reset got err:(0) LIBUSB_SUCCESS
 [2014-06-08 16:47:59] AMU 0 GetResults usb read err:(-1) LIBUSB_ERROR_IO
 [2014-06-08 16:47:59] AMU0: Comms error (rerr=-1 amt=0)
 [2014-06-08 16:47:59] FAIL: USB get_lock not found (1:2)
 [2014-06-08 16:47:59] FAIL: USB remove not already in use (1:2)

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Dave

The next step would be trying to duplicate the same thing on another laptop or PC. There's too many software variables to work out what is going on there.

[davecoin]

I have 2 units plugged into my main windows 7 pc.  After a reboot, one rbox will no longer be recognized by cgminer.  The other one immediately flashes a blue light and starts hashing when cgminer starts. 

I've tried:

Swapping the power cables and usb cables
New usb cable
uninstalling the devices in device manager
reinstalling winusb drivers in zadig
different usb ports

The 2nd rbox won't show up in CrazyGuy's cgminer or the cgminer provided by rockminer.

If I unplug the usb cable from the non working unit, I get the following output:

Code:

  [2014-06-08 16:47:59] AMU 0 GetResults usb read err:(-1) LIBUSB_ERROR_IO
 [2014-06-08 16:47:59] AMU 0 attempted reset got err:(0) LIBUSB_SUCCESS
 [2014-06-08 16:47:59] AMU 0 GetResults usb read err:(-1) LIBUSB_ERROR_IO
 [2014-06-08 16:47:59] AMU0: Comms error (rerr=-1 amt=0)
 [2014-06-08 16:47:59] FAIL: USB get_lock not found (1:2)
 [2014-06-08 16:47:59] FAIL: USB remove not already in use (1:2)

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Dave

The next step would be trying to duplicate the same thing on another laptop or PC. There's too many software variables to work out what is going on there.

Grabbed my win7 laptop.  Installed CrazyGuy's cgminer.  It shows up in device manager.  Uninstalled and reinstalled the winusb driver.  Rebooted pc.  Run cgminer and the device does not show up.

Plugged in the other "working" rbox and started cgminer.  It runs just as it should.

[dogie]

Grabbed my win7 laptop.  Installed CrazyGuy's cgminer.  It shows up in device manager.  Uninstalled and reinstalled the winusb driver.  Rebooted pc.  Run cgminer and the device does not show up.

Plugged in the other "working" rbox and started cgminer.  It runs just as it should.

Sounds like RMA time. Check for any obvious physical damage, even though its unlikely you'll be able to fix this.

[davecoin]

Grabbed my win7 laptop.  Installed CrazyGuy's cgminer.  It shows up in device manager.  Uninstalled and reinstalled the winusb driver.  Rebooted pc.  Run cgminer and the device does not show up.

Plugged in the other "working" rbox and started cgminer.  It runs just as it should.

Sounds like RMA time. Check for any obvious physical damage, even though its unlikely you'll be able to fix this.

It went from the box to the top of my computer case and worked fine for a couple days, then shit the bed.

Thanks for your help as always, Dogie.

[CrazyGuy]

Grabbed my win7 laptop.  Installed CrazyGuy's cgminer.  It shows up in device manager.  Uninstalled and reinstalled the winusb driver.  Rebooted pc.  Run cgminer and the device does not show up.

Plugged in the other "working" rbox and started cgminer.  It runs just as it should.

Sounds like RMA time. Check for any obvious physical damage, even though its unlikely you'll be able to fix this.

It went from the box to the top of my computer case and worked fine for a couple days, then shit the bed.

Thanks for your help as always, Dogie.

I wonder if it's an initialization timeout in cgminer. I saw something similar with my jalepeno in an early release of cgminer about a year ago. Might want to look for that error in the code and see what it's trying to do. I'll try to take a look tonight.

[kano]

Does anyone have a guide to getting the R-Box running off a Raspberry Pi? Cheers!

It will get messy due to the zavig requirement, will be possible though.

Um no.

Firstly, it's zadig, and secondly it's a windows program to switch USB devices to use the WinUSB driver - among other things.
(yeah I know because: I was the one who actually wrote the original USB driver code in cgminer and then worked out how to get it to work on windows ... after changing the code ... and using zadig)
That info is of course all in the cgminer README ... which many people don't bother to read.
"SETTING UP USB DEVICES"

The RPi - on the other hand - it is not a windows device ... and as the README says ...
"On linux, the direct USB support requires no drivers at all. However ..."

Read the rest to learn about it ...

[CrazyGuy]

Does anyone have a guide to getting the R-Box running off a Raspberry Pi? Cheers!

It will get messy due to the zavig requirement, will be possible though.

Um no.

Firstly, it's zadig, and secondly it's a windows program to switch USB devices to use the WinUSB driver - among other things.
(yeah I know because: I was the one who actually wrote the original USB driver code in cgminer and then worked out how to get it to work on windows ... after changing the code ... and using zadig)
That info is of course all in the cgminer README ... which many people don't bother to read.
"SETTING UP USB DEVICES"

The RPi - on the other hand - it is not a windows device ... and as the README says ...
"On linux, the direct USB support requires no drivers at all. However ..."

Read the rest to learn about it ...

Don't be so mean dude! Kano's absolutely right though, Zadig is only a requirement for Windows and is currently the best method of assigning winusb drivers. It averts the strict driver signing policies of WinVista and up by creating a cert and moving to trusted root on the fly. As soon as I get some free time I will add the same functionality to my cgminer installer and eliminate the need for Zadig.

Kano, what are your thoughts on the initialization errors reported by the user above and one in my thread?

Output with -D enabled

 [2014-06-09 18:16:04] AMU 1: Share above target
 [2014-06-09 18:16:05] AMU 1: Share above target
 [2014-06-09 18:16:05] AMU1: libusb pipe error, trying to clear
 [2014-06-09 18:16:05] AMU1: libusb pipe error, trying to clear
 [2014-06-09 18:16:05] AMU1: libusb pipe error, trying to clear
 [2014-06-09 18:16:05] AMU1: libusb pipe error, trying to clear
 [2014-06-09 18:16:05] AMU1: libusb pipe error, trying to clear
 [2014-06-09 18:16:05] AMU 1 GetResults usb read err:(-9) LIBUSB_ERROR_PIPE
 [2014-06-09 18:16:05] AMU 1 attempted reset got err:(0) LIBUSB_SUCCESS
 [2014-06-09 18:16:05] AMU 1 GetResults usb read err:(-1) LIBUSB_ERROR_IO
 [2014-06-09 18:16:05] AMU1: Comms error (rerr=-1 amt=0)
 [2014-06-09 18:16:05] AMU 1 failure, disabling!

[kano]

Thoughts on that?
Zero at the moment.

That usually means a hardware/hub problem or lack of enough power problem with other Icarus devices.

yxt has shipped an R-Box to me.
After I get it, I'll add support to mainline cgminer.
The fact that is uses the Icarus driver could be part of the problem.
I'd expect it to use massive amounts of CPU ... without an Icarus redesign as a new separate driver for it.
The Icarus driver was designed for 500MH/s not 30+GH/s