Topic: Butterfly Labs - Bitforce Single and Mini Rig Box - page 35. (Read 186944 times)
You can also add a line at the end that says "pause" No Quotes. It will keep the window open unless you press a button.
made the batch file and it flashes the command prompt then it disapears, I cannot tell if it has started the single mining or not.
Tried UFAsoft's miner and could not figure out how to set the properties for it to mine. Anyone with code examples they could share would be a big BIG help!
Open a command prompt and call your batch file, then you will be able to see the error that is causing it to close, since the command window will stay open. Tried UFAsoft's miner and could not figure out how to set the properties for it to mine. Anyone with code examples they could share would be a big BIG help!
made the batch file and it flashes the command prompt then it disapears, I cannot tell if it has started the single mining or not.
Tried UFAsoft's miner and could not figure out how to set the properties for it to mine. Anyone with code examples they could share would be a big BIG help!
Tried UFAsoft's miner and could not figure out how to set the properties for it to mine. Anyone with code examples they could share would be a big BIG help!
Yeah, I mean FTDI sorry! FDDI on the brain sometimes... gets conflated with FTDI 
Anyway ... I ran into that problem on one box, one time. I had to install the FTDI driver before the BFL unit would show up. They usually had no problems, but on a fresh install of Windows, it happened. Not sure what the catalyst was, but it solved the problem when I installed them.
The reason is because the FTDI driver isn't packaged with Windows, but it is automatically downloaded from the Windows Update server when the device is detected. However, this auto-download is disabled by default on new Windows installs, and must be enabled so as to download driver updates. Anyway ... I ran into that problem on one box, one time. I had to install the FTDI driver before the BFL unit would show up. They usually had no problems, but on a fresh install of Windows, it happened. Not sure what the catalyst was, but it solved the problem when I installed them.
Yeah, I mean FTDI sorry! FDDI on the brain sometimes... gets conflated with FTDI
Anyway ... I ran into that problem on one box, one time. I had to install the FTDI driver before the BFL unit would show up. They usually had no problems, but on a fresh install of Windows, it happened. Not sure what the catalyst was, but it solved the problem when I installed them.
Anyway ... I ran into that problem on one box, one time. I had to install the FTDI driver before the BFL unit would show up. They usually had no problems, but on a fresh install of Windows, it happened. Not sure what the catalyst was, but it solved the problem when I installed them.
I tried another miner and it recognized it in a COM port. one last question and I should have it up and running
where do I put this? I tried it in CGminer and it did not seem to work. Is there a specific place in CGminer I need to type this? or is this in the command prompt of windows?
Code:
cgminer -o -u -p --disable-gpu -S COM6
thanks again guys, you have been a huge help!
You can type this into a command prompt. But it may be more convenient to make a 'DOS' batch file (e.g. cg.bat) for it. You can create it using any text editor such as Notepad. Put it in the same directory as cgminer. Double-click the cg.bat file and it will start cgminer with the parameters you have put in.where do I put this? I tried it in CGminer and it did not seem to work. Is there a specific place in CGminer I need to type this? or is this in the command prompt of windows?
Code:
cgminer -o
thanks again guys, you have been a huge help!
You may also want to try the current Ufasoft miner; I believe it autodetects the Singles and supports hot-plugging; I've used it a few times before with my Singles and it worked fine. It is also a command-line program.
I tried another miner and it recognized it in a COM port. one last question and I should have it up and running
where do I put this? I tried it in CGminer and it did not seem to work. Is there a specific place in CGminer I need to type this? or is this in the command prompt of windows?
Code:
cgminer -o -u -p --disable-gpu -S COM6
thanks again guys, you have been a huge help!
where do I put this? I tried it in CGminer and it did not seem to work. Is there a specific place in CGminer I need to type this? or is this in the command prompt of windows?
Code:
cgminer -o
thanks again guys, you have been a huge help!
Do you have an FTTI driver installed?
I do not. this is probably the problem. any advice for this?Do you have an FTTI driver installed?
I do not. this is probably the problem. any advice for this?
Do you have an FTTI driver installed?
thank you very much epoch, unfortunatly, my single does not show up in the COM section, but as an other device and lists it has no driver info. Any ideas?
my 2 singles came in today that I ordered on 2/14/12. I have been using poclbm gui miner with my GPU's and have switch to CGminer. I have a single plugged in and cgminer running, and it detects my 2 gpu's but not my single. Could someone please provide detailed instructions on how to get these running? Thank you!
HB, take a peek here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.874683
Read through the above post plus the various replies; that should get you straightened out with your Singles and cgminer. You may or may not need to run a separate instance of cgminer for your gpus and Singles. Keep in mind that under Windows, cgminer does NOT autodetect Singles ... you need to specify them explicitly on the command line as shown in the above link. And to do that, you'll need to know the COM port that Windows has assigned to them.
my 2 singles came in today that I ordered on 2/14/12. I have been using poclbm gui miner with my GPU's and have switch to CGminer. I have a single plugged in and cgminer running, and it detects my 2 gpu's but not my single. Could someone please provide detailed instructions on how to get these running? Thank you!
Not sure if anyone else noticed, but BFL posted another production update a couple days ago. It shows the pre-production Mini-Rig (with a Raspberry Pi host!) and more info on the water block that they are making for the singles.
http://www.butterflylabs.com/production-update/
http://www.butterflylabs.com/production-update/
There is a separate thread for that: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=78464.0;topicseen
Not sure if anyone else noticed, but BFL posted another production update a couple days ago. It shows the pre-production Mini-Rig (with a Raspberry Pi host!) and more info on the water block that they are making for the singles.
http://www.butterflylabs.com/production-update/
http://www.butterflylabs.com/production-update/
I thinks it's down to about 2 months but it's improving.
No, more like 11 weeks right now; they are still working on orders placed mid-February:https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/wait-list-bfl-singles-order-date-ship-date-77796
I thinks it's down to about 2 months but it's improving.
Read through about 10 pages of this thread so far, and was just wondering, how's the current shipping lengths these days? Thinking of getting a single.
Ok, now it's clear to me. Thank you!
Does this mean that you would expect with a BFL FPGA to generate 26% fewer shares at a given hash rate than a GPU?
No it will produce the expected # of shares however you will have a 26% stale rate. Actually a little higher because you have the normal stales due to network propogation too. This is borne out in observations by users reporting a DOA & orphan combined rate of something like 30% to 40% of hashing power.
It will report 26% less shares since it aborts 26% of shares before you see them.
So 830mh/s of bfl will produce same number of shares as 830mh/s of GPU? Then what's the big deal? That there is a theoretical loss of hashing power because some shares are aborted?
Just to be clear since it wasn't said in the last few posts: This flaw in the BFL units is exclusive to p2pool due to p2pools rapid long polling. While the flaw DOES affect all other mining, its only ~0.43% when mining a pool/solo since regular long polls are 10 minutes apart, not 10 seconds apart.
An 830 MH/s BFL will produce the same number of shares as an 830 MH/s GPU. However, due to the way the BFL unit reports shares, you're losing ~26% of what is produced on p2pool. So on p2pool you'd only be getting an effective rate of ~614.2 MH/s with a BFL unit.
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