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Topic: Antminer S2 Support and Overclocking Thread - page 2. (Read 26599 times)

sr. member
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November 01, 2014, 03:27:07 AM
#92
+1 on an updated cgminer.  4.6.x would be nice. 

*** PLEASE BITMAIN provide us with a cgminer/firmware update to the S2. ***

I plan to run my S2's for quite some time.  With 1Th/s at 1W/Gh, they are still very relevant.  For example; Rockminer's biggest box only does 800Gh/s at 1000W, which is 1.25W/Gh.  My point is, the S2 still has a lot of life in it, so keep supporting it!  We NEED a CGMINER 4.6 update.  The last update was over 4 months ago.  Cgminer 3.12.0 is ancient in miner age.



Thank you, thank you, thank you, Bitmain for the new firmware with Cgminer 4.6.1!  It is so nice to see 995 Gh/s average on my S2 mining P2Pool. 
hero member
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Overclocking not really working on this firmware,..

Anyone find a way to overclock them past 200mh/s?

Did you have to ssh into the unit or is it like an s3?
full member
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Overclocking not really working on this firmware,..

Anyone find a way to overclock them past 200mh/s?
legendary
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BTCLife.global participant
So here is new firmware for S2:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.9389695

 Grin At last...
sr. member
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+1 on an updated cgminer.  4.6.x would be nice. 

*** PLEASE BITMAIN provide us with a cgminer/firmware update to the S2. ***

I plan to run my S2's for quite some time.  With 1Th/s at 1W/Gh, they are still very relevant.  For example; Rockminer's biggest box only does 800Gh/s at 1000W, which is 1.25W/Gh.  My point is, the S2 still has a lot of life in it, so keep supporting it!  We NEED a CGMINER 4.6 update.  The last update was over 4 months ago.  Cgminer 3.12.0 is ancient in miner age.

legendary
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And waiting for an upgrade kit...  Angry I couldn't use this non serious 200$ coupon...
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We are all still waiting for a firmware fix / update for the antminer S2,

Looks like bitmain is not working that hard on a fix Sad

~ Luc
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Any news on getting a cgminer 4.x firmware upgrade for S2.
S3 upgrade is there but it broke the  miner configuration page for me.
legendary
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Anyone tried underclocking or undervolting these?

Wondered if anything better than 1w/gh can be achieved

I have stable 0.95 W/GH; but at great cost to GH/s:  9 blade S2 running 396 watts 416 GH/s
hero member
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Follow the OP

Step 2 Click "YES" on the "Security Alert" that pops up
Step 3 Login with User: root Password: admin
Step 4 Type "cd /config"
Step 5 Type "vi asic-freq.config

I'm hoping someone here can help me since I am a relatively new to using antminers. I have three s1's and two s3's and I just bought my first s2. I have successfully ssh into the s1's and s3's and have overclocked/underclocked without any problems, but for some reason I cannot edit the /etc/config in the s2. I open putty and enter root/admin and instead of seeing the normal welcome screen all I see is a line "root@antminer:~#", then I enter "/etc/config" and it says "-sh: /etc/config: not found". I have updated to the latest firmware from Bitmain and have rebooted several times. Any ideas what might be wrong?
newbie
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I'm hoping someone here can help me since I am a relatively new to using antminers. I have three s1's and two s3's and I just bought my first s2. I have successfully ssh into the s1's and s3's and have overclocked/underclocked without any problems, but for some reason I cannot edit the /etc/config in the s2. I open putty and enter root/admin and instead of seeing the normal welcome screen all I see is a line "root@antminer:~#", then I enter "/etc/config" and it says "-sh: /etc/config: not found". I have updated to the latest firmware from Bitmain and have rebooted several times. Any ideas what might be wrong?
legendary
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ASIC Wannabe
I tried oc 212M set but failed to work, I did a reset. the original power supply can handle 212Mhz?

No, the original supply is pushed near it's limit. For 212mhz you really need a 1200w or better supply since the power draw of 1100gh is around 1050-1150w in the psu
legendary
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ASIC Wannabe
Anyone tried underclocking or undervolting these?

Wondered if anything better than 1w/gh can be achieved
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I tried oc 212M set but failed to work, I did a reset. the original power supply can handle 212Mhz?
hero member
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September 26, 2014, 01:12:34 AM
#78
Oh good, so this thing hasn't come close to returning my investment, and now instead of the upgrade they promised, they want me to fork out another ~$1250 for a whole other unit to run up my hydro bills more and *hopefully* make me back the money I put into the S2 and now the new S4?!?

I believe this is where the train stops for me ... done with Bitmain.

I feel the same way. Waiting for positive news about possibly over clocking these units to 2th/s with maybe a firmware mod/volt mod.
newbie
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September 25, 2014, 02:29:42 PM
#77
Oh good, so this thing hasn't come close to returning my investment, and now instead of the upgrade they promised, they want me to fork out another ~$1250 for a whole other unit to run up my hydro bills more and *hopefully* make me back the money I put into the S2 and now the new S4?!?

I believe this is where the train stops for me ... done with Bitmain.
newbie
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September 18, 2014, 04:41:15 PM
#76
Did you just rebuild cgminer or a entire firmware upgrade?

Just cgminer.
hero member
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September 18, 2014, 04:32:29 PM
#75
UPDATE - Nevermind.  Absolutely TERRIBLE hashrates with it ... ~3 Gh/s on Slush's pool, and maybe 250 Gh/s on westhash ... went back to 4.3.5-s2 ...

Did you just rebuild cgminer or a entire firmware upgrade?
newbie
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September 18, 2014, 02:48:07 PM
#74
I just built 4.6.0 on my S2 to try to resolve an issue I'm having with multipool.us (didn't work btw)


Code:
 cgminer version 4.6.0 - Started: [2014-09-18 18:16:32]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):1.643T (1m):1.399T (5m):1.144T (15m):892.6G (avg):1.070Th/s
 A:371712  R:18432  HW:8380  WU:15069.9/m
 Connected to stratum.westhash.com diff 1.02K with stratum as user me
 Block: 7cb75f9f...  Diff:232M  Started: [18:42:26]  Best share: 2.09M
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [U]SB management [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 0: AS2 0       : 51/ 54C 1800R           | 3.239T / 1.078Th/s WU:15069.9/m
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


There isn't really much of note in the NEWS since 4.3.5, but if anyone would like a copy just tell me where to upload it ...

NEWS since 4.3.5 with stuff relating to other hardware removed -

Code:
Version 4.6.0 - 7th September 2014

- We should not be checking for pool_unworkable in cnx_needed as it is keeping
stratum connections open on unused pools
- Properly handle lack of input when adding pool via menu
- Allow workers without passwords

Version 4.5.0 - 29th July 2014

- Reorder and document the configure options
- fix jansson include path in cgminer-api compile instructions
- Make submit_nonce2_nonce return whether the share was valid or not
- Increase the internal buffer for API response,   as "stats" command response
can grow greater than 8K
- Detach test pool thread only if we have a blocking startup

Version 4.4.2 - 17th July 2014

- Remove the use of the pthread_tryjoin_np which is currently unimplemented on
many platforms
- Fix processarg parameters loaded from a config file not being saveable
- We only use the jansson in our source tree so no need for special case
handling of older versions
- Upgrade jansson to 2.6
- Only clear sockbuf if it's been allocated
- Fix missing osm-led-mode support in write config
- Deal with nanosecond overflow in both directions on both addition and
subtration of timespecs
- production stats added, reset queue added
- Avoid blocking all pool testing if one pool fails to ever init
- There is no point storing the hints addrinfo in struct pool
- initialise more pool values in benchmark
- merge upstream frequency changes
- Fix an off-by-one.
- fix AntS1 breakages from AntS2 changes
- noncedup - give access to the internal stats

Version 4.4.1 - 21st June 2014

- Clean up pool failure and failover code for stratum

Version 4.4.0 - 16th June 2014

- Clear the pool idle flag in the pool test thread
- Display error message if we receive one on share rejects
- Allow zero length strings to be passed to valid_hex
- delete unused roundl definition



Oh, and it has no getwork support since it couldn't find libcurl despite it being installed, and everything I use supports stratum anyway, so I couldn't be bothered to fight with it any longer than I did trying to get it to see the libraries ...



UPDATE - Nevermind.  Absolutely TERRIBLE hashrates with it ... ~3 Gh/s on Slush's pool, and maybe 250 Gh/s on westhash ... went back to 4.3.5-s2 ...
newbie
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September 17, 2014, 10:25:47 PM
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