ANTMINER S4 Discussion and Support Thread - page 138.

dkaufman

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Quote from: BITMAIN on October 03, 2014, 10:57:56 AM

Engineers have released one version of firmware merged cgminer 4.6.1 [...]

Updated cgminer to v4.6.1 for S4

https://www.bitmaintech.com/support.htm?pid=00720140930114518599JXGHWWD80660

Tried applying this update. It failed, saying:

System Upgrade Failed
cp: omitting directory 'SD'

greaterninja

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Anyone upgrade their firmware / cgminer?

manitu

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Hi Bitmain

when I started the device everything seems to be okay. But after 4 minutes a lot of (x) appeared in ASIC status. When I do power cycle the situation is after 4 minutes the some. What should I do? Sad

http://s28.postimg.org/uj41xpf2h/image.jpg

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Quote from: BITMAIN on October 03, 2014, 10:57:56 AM

Replied questions:

1. S4 is compatible with p2pool?
Yes

Quote from: MyRig on October 04, 2014, 02:34:22 AM

P2pool works. Cheesy

Pools were selected from http://p2pool-nodes.info/

If there is a specific pool, you want a try, please let me know!

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.9075999

2. When do we release the latest firmware?
Engineers have released one version of firmware merged cgminer 4.6.1 today, which is now being tested. And we will upload it to bitmaintech.com when it is tested running stably.
Please PM us if you have any request about current verson firmware.
Updated cgminer to v4.6.1 for S4
https://www.bitmaintech.com/support.htm?pid=00720140930114518599JXGHWWD80660

3. how to upgrade latest firmware to S2?
Now the latest firmware for S3 and S4 is ready to be released soon, that one for S2 is being developed. Stay tuned here.

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P2pool works. Cheesy

Pools were selected from http://p2pool-nodes.info/

If there is a specific pool, you want a try, please let me know!

Quote from: PatMan on October 03, 2014, 10:26:42 PM

Quote from: BITMAIN on October 03, 2014, 10:58:55 AM

Replied questions:

1. S4 is compatible with p2pool?
Yes

Can anyone confirm this? Anyone tried?

-ck

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Ruu \o/

Quote from: IYFTech on October 03, 2014, 08:20:12 AM

Quote from: Prelude on October 03, 2014, 08:15:11 AM

Quote from: IYFTech on October 03, 2014, 07:22:35 AM

Quote from: Prelude on October 03, 2014, 07:20:07 AM

3.12.0

As I feared. Your S4's are working fine - it's just that someone is stealing your hash....... Cheesy

Bitmain fail.

Can this be prevented in any way in the mean time? Use of a proxy, or something? Why doesn't this happen with all pools?

Not that I'm aware of & it can.

If you put a proxy between your miner and the pool locally on your lan, and ONLY point your S4 at the proxy, you should be good to go and it will prevent it being redirected. ckproxy (linux only) which supports failover as well can do all the failover work for you if need be. Link to ckpool/ckproxy code in my sig.

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Quote from: MyRig on October 03, 2014, 04:41:00 PM

To Factory Reset S4, please try using the reset button!!

Quote from: manitu on October 03, 2014, 04:06:28 PM

Does anyone know what username and password could I use for SSH access to S4? The device is freezed but SSH is live.
Thx.

LET IT GOOOOOOOOOOOO
LET IT GOOOOOOOOOOOO

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Quote from: ImogenV on October 03, 2014, 05:53:29 PM

Is there a Dogie's miner setup guide for the S4?

Soon^TM. Had some other units that have been waiting a while to be published that I should have done first, so I've done most of those first. Quite busy tomorrow so might be Sunday now.

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Watch out for the "Neg-Rep-Dogie-Police".....

Quote from: BITMAIN on October 03, 2014, 10:58:55 AM

Replied questions:

1. S4 is compatible with p2pool?
Yes

Can anyone confirm this? Anyone tried?

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Quote from: dkaufman on October 03, 2014, 09:44:13 PM

Quote from: sjc1490 on October 03, 2014, 07:01:42 PM

Here is how to do the update on a S3, dir's might be a little different on a S4 don't know as I didn't order one. I did do on my S1's back when I had them and the scare started circulating and it went smooth. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.9071790

Directories are the same but alas, the architecture is different :-( when I downloaded that 4.6.0 binary it wouldn't run. it gave the error:

Code:

  ./cgminer: line 1: 
  syntax error: unexpected "("

And when I ran "file" on them both, they say:

Code:

  $ file cgminer-3.12.0 # this is the one on the S4
  cgminer-3.12.0: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, stripped

  $ file cgminer-4.6.0 # this is the one you can download for the S2 and S3
  cgminer-4.6.0: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, MIPS, MIPS32 rel2 version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), with unknown capability 0x41000000 = 0xf676e75, with unknown capability 0x10000 = 0x70403, stripped

Might shoot CK a pm and see if he has any input.

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Quote from: sjc1490 on October 03, 2014, 07:01:42 PM

Here is how to do the update on a S3, dir's might be a little different on a S4 don't know as I didn't order one. I did do on my S1's back when I had them and the scare started circulating and it went smooth. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.9071790

Directories are the same but alas, the architecture is different :-( when I downloaded that 4.6.0 binary it wouldn't run. it gave the error:

Code:

  ./cgminer: line 1: 
  syntax error: unexpected "("

And when I ran "file" on them both, they say:

Code:

  $ file cgminer-3.12.0 # this is the one on the S4
  cgminer-3.12.0: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, stripped

  $ file cgminer-4.6.0 # this is the one you can download for the S2 and S3
  cgminer-4.6.0: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, MIPS, MIPS32 rel2 version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), with unknown capability 0x41000000 = 0xf676e75, with unknown capability 0x10000 = 0x70403, stripped

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Quote from: Prelude on October 03, 2014, 06:00:40 PM

Quote from: dkaufman on October 03, 2014, 05:58:12 PM

Quote from: manitu on October 03, 2014, 04:06:28 PM

Does anyone know what username and password could I use for SSH access to S4? The device is freezed but SSH is live.
Thx.

ssh username is root, and the password for the S4 is "admin"

I've been ssh'ed into mine. Contemplating upgrading cgminer myself... Dare I? The author posted an ant miner-patched version and instructions (well, for the S3 I think)...

I suck at Linux, but I'd like to ssh into a few of my miners to see what's going on behind the curtains. How would I go about seeing cgminer once I'm connected?

Edit: Gave screen -r a try and that worked. Any other tricks I should know? Tried the same on an Innosilicon A2 Terminator, but it isn't the right command.

Here is how to do the update on a S3, dir's might be a little different on a S4 don't know as I didn't order one. I did do on my S1's back when I had them and the scare started circulating and it went smooth. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.9071790

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Quote from: MyRig on October 03, 2014, 06:43:41 PM

We are not affiliated with Minersource.net or Miner Hosting LLC.

They may have used the address at 3700 Quebec St, however, 3700 Quebec st is a shopping/office center.

Every package will be signed and video recorded as they come in by the UPS, and Panera Bread is located within the same shopping center.

http://www.stapletondenver.com/directory?district=30

There are a few other bitcoin related businesses in colorado receive mails at the local UPS Store within the shopping center.

In the near future, Walk-In drop off may be offered at Denver Bitcoin Center, but, that arrangement is not yet active.

This USA address is one of the options. You can always request RMA/Warranty via PM to Bitmain or [email protected] or [email protected]

Please arrange your address and phone number to be published on bitmaintech.com website. The community is very distrustful (for many good reasons) and a noob forum account asking to ship miners without prior contact is obviously raising all sorts of red flags.

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Quote from: MyRig on October 03, 2014, 06:43:41 PM

We are not affiliated with Minersource.net or Miner Hosting LLC.

They may have used the address at 3700 Quebec St, however, 3700 Quebec st is a shopping/office center.

Every package will be signed and video recorded as they come in by the UPS, and Panera Bread is located within the same shopping center.

http://www.stapletondenver.com/directory?district=30

There are a few other bitcoin related businesses in colorado receive mails at the local UPS Store within the shopping center.

In the near future, Walk-In drop off may be offered at Denver Bitcoin Center, but, that arrangement is not yet active.

This USA address is one of the options. You can always request RMA/Warranty via PM to Bitmain or [email protected] or [email protected]

Are you and if so affiliated with Bitmaintech the actual manufacturer of the S4? Thanks

MyRig

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[email protected]

We are not affiliated with Minersource.net or Miner Hosting LLC.

They may have used the address at 3700 Quebec St, however, 3700 Quebec st is a shopping/office center.

Every package will be signed and video recorded as they come in by the UPS, and Panera Bread is located within the same shopping center.

http://www.stapletondenver.com/directory?district=30

There are a few other bitcoin related businesses in colorado receive mails at the local UPS Store within the shopping center.

In the near future, Walk-In drop off may be offered at Denver Bitcoin Center, but, that arrangement is not yet active.

This USA address is one of the options. You can always request RMA/Warranty via PM to Bitmain or [email protected] or [email protected]

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My 3 Days with 2 S4's

Both of my S4's are running stock settings and always read ~2TH/s on the miner. The poolside hashrate is very different though.

24 Hour on Eligius: ~100GH/s

24 Hours on Eclipse: 1600-1700GH/s

24 Hours on BTC Guild: ~2TH/s (after manually setting the diff to 2048)

The problem seems to be that the pool and miner are not resolving the dynamic difficulty properly. Eligius stick to 128 and results in sh*t for hashrate. Both Eclipse and BTC Guild settle on 1.8k for the difficulty and yield 1.6-1.7TH/s. If you manually select 2048 from the difficulty menu on BTC Guild I get 2TH/s poolside.

NO ONE IS STEALING YOUR HASHRATE. The firmware obviously needs some work in order to properly resolve the variable diff. In the meantime i'm obv mining on BTC Guild with 2048 Diff manually selected.

I'm not looking for a solution, or troubleshooting help from anyone as i've alread done the necessary troubleshooting. (ie factory reset, cable swaps, settings, blah blah) I'm just presenting data of my experience with 2 S4 miners and confirming there is a problem. I can provide screenshots, but don't really think I need to waste my time with that.

TLDR;
Mine on BTC Guild and manually set the difficulty to 2048 until the new firmware is released.

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Quote from: GWilkiejr on October 03, 2014, 06:37:44 PM

Hey guys - is anyone actually mining with an S4 right now? I am still mining at 2 Th/s locally but 200 Gh/s on any pool I connect to.... Any suggestions?

Yes.... sell it to another sucker. There are alot in here, not hard to find.

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Quote from: Prelude on October 03, 2014, 06:34:26 PM

Quote from: seriouscoin on October 03, 2014, 06:25:26 PM

Quote from: Prelude on October 03, 2014, 06:18:30 PM

Quote from: seriouscoin on October 03, 2014, 06:17:25 PM

Quote from: Prelude on October 03, 2014, 06:00:40 PM

Quote from: dkaufman on October 03, 2014, 05:58:12 PM

Quote from: manitu on October 03, 2014, 04:06:28 PM

Does anyone know what username and password could I use for SSH access to S4? The device is freezed but SSH is live.
Thx.

ssh username is root, and the password for the S4 is "admin"

I've been ssh'ed into mine. Contemplating upgrading cgminer myself... Dare I? The author posted an ant miner-patched version and instructions (well, for the S3 I think)...

I suck at Linux, but I'd like to ssh into a few of my miners to see what's going on behind the curtains. How would I go about seeing cgminer once I'm connected?

Edit: Gave screen -r a try and that worked. Any other tricks I should know? Tried the same on an Innosilicon A2 Terminator, but it isn't the right command.

send me btc and i will tell you.....

Address?

1QAHVyRzkmD4j1pU5W89htZ3c6D6E7iWDs
Look and see how many "donations" i got.

Too bad you didn't post your actual address, I would have liked to send you a donation to help you move out of your step-mom's basement. Ah well, your loss.

Are you in grade school? no wonder you cant even see bad investment right in front of your eyes..... Go ahead spend most of your energy to keep those miners of yours mining close to specs...... so you lose couple hundreds bucks LESS.

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Hey guys - is anyone actually mining with an S4 right now? I am still mining at 2 Th/s locally but 200 Gh/s on any pool I connect to.... Any suggestions?

Prelude

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Quote from: seriouscoin on October 03, 2014, 06:25:26 PM

Quote from: Prelude on October 03, 2014, 06:18:30 PM

Quote from: seriouscoin on October 03, 2014, 06:17:25 PM

Quote from: Prelude on October 03, 2014, 06:00:40 PM

Quote from: dkaufman on October 03, 2014, 05:58:12 PM

Quote from: manitu on October 03, 2014, 04:06:28 PM

Does anyone know what username and password could I use for SSH access to S4? The device is freezed but SSH is live.
Thx.

ssh username is root, and the password for the S4 is "admin"

I've been ssh'ed into mine. Contemplating upgrading cgminer myself... Dare I? The author posted an ant miner-patched version and instructions (well, for the S3 I think)...

I suck at Linux, but I'd like to ssh into a few of my miners to see what's going on behind the curtains. How would I go about seeing cgminer once I'm connected?

Edit: Gave screen -r a try and that worked. Any other tricks I should know? Tried the same on an Innosilicon A2 Terminator, but it isn't the right command.

send me btc and i will tell you.....

Address?

1QAHVyRzkmD4j1pU5W89htZ3c6D6E7iWDs
Look and see how many "donations" i got.

Too bad you didn't post your actual address, I would have liked to send you a donation to help you move out of your step-mom's basement. Ah well, your loss.

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