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Topic: Avalon ASIC users thread - page 207. (Read 438340 times)

full member
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February 18, 2013, 02:08:29 PM
Is he pulling it apart to show how it's put together, or does he intend to improve it by putting it in a custom rig?
legendary
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February 18, 2013, 01:48:01 PM
A picture is worth a thousand words  Grin



Is that your unit? Or did you take that picture from something Jeff or the other guys posted? If that's another Avalon in the wild it's great news.

that´s not mine, it´s sure from another avalon customer from china.

looks like its apple season in China  Roll Eyes
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February 18, 2013, 12:25:02 PM
A picture is worth a thousand words  Grin



Is that your unit? Or did you take that picture from something Jeff or the other guys posted? If that's another Avalon in the wild it's great news.

that´s not mine, it´s sure from another avalon customer from china.
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February 18, 2013, 12:05:24 PM
A picture is worth a thousand words  Grin



Is that your unit? Or did you take that picture from something Jeff or the other guys posted? If that's another Avalon in the wild it's great news.
legendary
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February 18, 2013, 12:01:27 PM

That is what the machine does during boot: run cgminer from the command line.  That is necessarily how it must be run under Linux Smiley

One only needs to edit /etc/rc.d/S99cgminer.  Here is a sample of S99cgminer:

Code:
DEVS=`find /dev/ -type c -name "ttyUSB*"  | sed 's/^/-S/' |  sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/ /g'`
PARAMS=" $DEVS $POOL1 $POOL2 $POOL3 --avalon-options 115200:24:10:45:282 -q --api-allow "W:0/0" --api-listen "

ntpd -d -n -q -N -p 0.openwrt.pool.ntp.org \
-p 1.openwrt.pool.ntp.org -p 2.openwrt.pool.ntp.org -p 3.openwrt.pool.ntp.org && \
start-stop-daemon -S -x $APP -p $PID_FILE -m -b -- $PARAMS



jeff,
Can you try  --avalon-options 115200:24:10:42:300 Or something similar just to see if there is real increase in performance and post here the results?

10X
yeah please
legendary
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February 18, 2013, 11:55:18 AM

That is what the machine does during boot: run cgminer from the command line.  That is necessarily how it must be run under Linux Smiley

One only needs to edit /etc/rc.d/S99cgminer.  Here is a sample of S99cgminer:

Code:
DEVS=`find /dev/ -type c -name "ttyUSB*"  | sed 's/^/-S/' |  sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/ /g'`
PARAMS=" $DEVS $POOL1 $POOL2 $POOL3 --avalon-options 115200:24:10:45:282 -q --api-allow "W:0/0" --api-listen "

ntpd -d -n -q -N -p 0.openwrt.pool.ntp.org \
-p 1.openwrt.pool.ntp.org -p 2.openwrt.pool.ntp.org -p 3.openwrt.pool.ntp.org && \
start-stop-daemon -S -x $APP -p $PID_FILE -m -b -- $PARAMS



jeff,
Can you try  --avalon-options 115200:24:10:42:300 Or something similar just to see if there is real increase in performance and post here the results?

10X
legendary
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February 18, 2013, 11:54:07 AM
A picture is worth a thousand words  Grin



What are we looking at?
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February 18, 2013, 11:51:34 AM
A picture is worth a thousand words  Grin

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Manateeeeeeees
February 18, 2013, 11:27:18 AM
legendary
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February 17, 2013, 10:18:01 PM
Upgrade was successful using standard web-based OpenWRT firmware upgrade procedure.

New image...
Is Avalon not using opkg and a jffs2-capable firmware? O.o
Does it matter? It's easier to guarantee a complete update if you just image the whole flash; the unit should then exactly match fresh production units.
Well, opkg upgrades would be safer (no risk of bricking) and could be automated (possibly after the user clicks an "Upgrade" button only).
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February 17, 2013, 10:14:42 PM
Upgrade was successful using standard web-based OpenWRT firmware upgrade procedure.

New image...
Is Avalon not using opkg and a jffs2-capable firmware? O.o

Does it matter? It's easier to guarantee a complete update if you just image the whole flash; the unit should then exactly match fresh production units.
donator
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Poor impulse control.
February 17, 2013, 10:04:05 PM
New firmware received from Avalon via email.

Upgrade was successful using standard web-based OpenWRT firmware upgrade procedure.

New image appears to be based on cgminer 2.10.5, and the fans are running at a much higher speed (and noise level) than the previous image.  Restarted and was back to mining within minutes... let's see how this impacts stability.


How loud exactly is the unit. Can you compare it to the sound an Xbox360 makes? Or a range hood?

Or, more to the point, an overclocked 6990/7990?
member
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February 17, 2013, 09:24:00 PM
New firmware received from Avalon via email.

Upgrade was successful using standard web-based OpenWRT firmware upgrade procedure.

New image appears to be based on cgminer 2.10.5, and the fans are running at a much higher speed (and noise level) than the previous image.  Restarted and was back to mining within minutes... let's see how this impacts stability.


How loud exactly is the unit. Can you compare it to the sound an Xbox360 makes? Or a range hood?
legendary
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Bitcoin calls me an Orphan
February 17, 2013, 09:04:58 PM
New firmware received from Avalon via email.

Upgrade was successful using standard web-based OpenWRT firmware upgrade procedure.

New image appears to be based on cgminer 2.10.5, and the fans are running at a much higher speed (and noise level) than the previous image.  Restarted and was back to mining within minutes... let's see how this impacts stability.



Thanks for the update!
legendary
Activity: 1596
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February 17, 2013, 08:34:49 PM
I'm assuming that one can manually alter the fan profile in cgminer's config file. Have you tried this already?

That wouldn't be an accurate test of the new firmware, if the settings were altered before giving the defaults a good chance to succeed/fail.

legendary
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February 17, 2013, 07:33:29 PM
New firmware received from Avalon via email.

Upgrade was successful using standard web-based OpenWRT firmware upgrade procedure.

New image appears to be based on cgminer 2.10.5, and the fans are running at a much higher speed (and noise level) than the previous image.  Restarted and was back to mining within minutes... let's see how this impacts stability.



I'm assuming that one can manually alter the fan profile in cgminer's config file. Have you tried this already?
legendary
Activity: 2576
Merit: 1186
February 17, 2013, 07:17:33 PM
Upgrade was successful using standard web-based OpenWRT firmware upgrade procedure.

New image...
Is Avalon not using opkg and a jffs2-capable firmware? O.o
newbie
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Merit: 0
February 17, 2013, 07:12:32 PM
Hi Jeff! Thanks for the update, please keep us posted on how the new firmware works out Smiley

New firmware received from Avalon via email.

Upgrade was successful using standard web-based OpenWRT firmware upgrade procedure.

New image appears to be based on cgminer 2.10.5, and the fans are running at a much higher speed (and noise level) than the previous image.  Restarted and was back to mining within minutes... let's see how this impacts stability.


legendary
Activity: 1596
Merit: 1091
February 17, 2013, 07:05:32 PM
New firmware received from Avalon via email.

Upgrade was successful using standard web-based OpenWRT firmware upgrade procedure.

New image appears to be based on cgminer 2.10.5, and the fans are running at a much higher speed (and noise level) than the previous image.  Restarted and was back to mining within minutes... let's see how this impacts stability.

legendary
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Merit: 1001
February 16, 2013, 06:12:03 AM
Won't be long until it's a month since they shipped!  Someone start a countdown!

Oh,don't be BFL'ish  Cheesy
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