Topic: GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread - page 67. (Read 61923 times)

I got around to trying this today and i can confirm this works. As of now my R606 is hashing at a stable 740 ghs under mac os 10.13

Full order of commands needed to get R606 to work on mac:


Followed by:


Change the value of branch in the file to "R606" and save then exit.

Then build from source by running:

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Is there a way to disable the autotune frequency setting for the R606?

Another NOOB question:  Is it a bad idea to adjust voltage on R606 while it's mining or does it matter at all?  Is there a best practice procedure when adjusting the voltage setting on the R606?  For example, if I want to test out different voltage settings, should I shut down cgminer first, then set the voltage, then restart cgminer?  I just want to reduce any chance of damaging the hardware.

Thanks in advance.

Sam pretty much covered the 1TH/s speeds.  As for the Raspberry Pi it really depends on which one you are using.  I have not tested a Raspberry Pi 4 yet (I receive a 2gb ram version this coming Tuesday 7/30/19 so will be testing soon) however the Raspberry Pi 3 b+ and older units, the gigabyte lan and USB ports all share the same (one) USB Bus.  Which really limits what you can do with the Pi 3 b+ etc.   I was running 4 Newpacs and 2 R606 on a Pi 3 b+ and the R606 no matter the Mhz and voltage they would not go over 500 - 550 Mhz if I was lucky.  The system would detune and average about 650 to 750 Gh/s each.  Switching to a dedicated desktop running Linux Mint (just another flavor of ubuntu) and from here I have been able to maintain average speeds of about 900 - 950 Gh/s each.

I do not know why the Pi developers decided to make the Pi 3 and Pi 3b+ all run off one usb Bus.  As it becomes a huge bottleneck when you have more devices being used.    I originally ordered a Odroid XU4 to replace my Pi 3 b+ however UPS lost my package, so got a refund and picked up the Pi 4 to tinker with instead.  I have 2 test projects I am wanting to run on the Pi 4.  1st running these miners as I would like something that uses little wattage and can control the miners, as my Linux box is a power hungry FX-8350.  I'm wanting to set this box aside to running Handbrake on media files and use 3D apps to design models for 3D Printing projects.   2nd test project is as a NAS.  I'm now using my Raspberry Pi 3 b+ as a small NAS unit with 1TB of total space.   Does ok but transfer rates on the network is hitting 12 - 18 MB/s.  Again another weak link of the Pi 3 series.   So wanting to test the transfer rates out on the Pi 4 since it's now using 3.0 USB ports and also use multiple buses now, no longer combining all usb ports and networking to one bus.

Fun times.

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Link for Udemy Search of free Linux online courses:  https://www.udemy.com/courses/search/?src=ukw&q=linux%20for%20beginners&p=1&price=price-free.

Thanks another piece of knowledge added.

read the manual for .bash_aliases
https://ss64.com/bash/syntax-bashrc.html
https://ss64.com/bash/alias.html

and here's a starter for you

https://gist.github.com/NeoBeum/5f9405734f4c026b59b4de5605b9af33

open a text editor while in your cgminer folder, enter your parameters the way you would in a Windows batch file and when you are done, save the file as a .sh file instead of a .bat the way you would in Windows. FWIW, I have to run my .sh file as administrator (sudo) to make things happy. I'm no genius at non-Windows stuff, so I haven't tried to change anything to make it just run on a double click.

mstrozier gave us instructions for setting up an RPi and part of that was creating an sh file.  You can adapt that part of those instructions.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.50968875

The example string from the the first post. I now finally have it running (im an idiot was using "zero" instead of "oh" before the pool information.

I still need help figuring out how to create what I now know is called a SH or shell file (Batch in windows). I would like to be able to click in one place to fire things up.

On my units I needed 700+ Mhz to get 1Ths.  One needed Voltage Level 5 and the other Level 6.


I could only get that speed when running on a Computer with Ubuntu.  My RPi get's 800 to 850 GHs when running one or two units, at total around 1.7Ths.


What do you mean by test string?

Anyone have a step by step for creating the batch file equivalent for Ubuntu. I just switched over from windows. I am loving it but there is a bit of a learning curve going on.

If I enter it from terminal I can get the test string to work but when I put in my pool info and try again I get an error saying there is an extra command.

Any help appreciated.

UPDATE: I have it running manually now just have to type it all into the command line. So still trying to figure out how to create the batch file equivalent for unbuntu.

Hi everyone!

Would someone please post what speeds and settings they used to get 1TH/s on the r606?

Also if I was to buy a second one, could my rasberry pi run two or more r606s or would I have to get another pi?

Thanks!

I have a NEWPAC running on a Raspberry Pi 3 from the front USB port on a Xbox One S on standby power.
(Powered by Xbox front USB, not NES)

https://i.imgur.com/acMfEXJ.jpg

Also,  @vh

The r606 branch configure script has a parse error for the latest Raspbian build with GCC 8.3.0.
Line 4033~4044 can't sed the version for loop.


Running autoconfigure again without CFLAG bypasses the gcc checks and then it's able to build.

0769.it mining pool only supports x16r, scrypt, x11 and lyra2v2.  Both the Newpac and R606 mines only SHA256.  You will need to find pools that works with the SHA256 algorithm.  If you are trying to get paid out in a different coin other than Bitcoin or other sha256 based coins (peercoin, digibyte, litecoin cash etc) then you may want to point your miners towards prohashing.com and mine in the correct algorithm and get paid in whatever crpyto of your choice.

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Well.   Finally had one of these units die on me     The first unit I purchased that would often reset.   Tonight cgminer reported 0 chips on the unit.  After rebooting the box it'll no longer even recognize the device attached.  Not sure where to begin debugging what could have failed.

1st screen shot:  https://ibb.co/XXc1zTR

2nd screen shot:  https://ibb.co/QQdkvQ0

btw, the unit shouldn't have over heated.  Brisk 68/70 Degrees F with a push/pull fan setup on the units (installed a rear fan).  Kind of stumped  

** Edit **
Wanted to update this.  Vendor is working with me on the issue and getting it resolved.  Love this community    Thanks all.

Nowhere on 0769.it does it show it is mining sha256, only scrypt, x11, x16r and Lyra2v2.   Since your miner only mines sha256, I would try mining on a pool that supports that algorithm.

hello, I recently purchased a usb miner gekko newpack. The miner works well and I tested it on ckpool. but if I want to mine in another pool, cgminer gets stuck in "starting cgminer" how to resolve?

These are the parameters i passed to cgminer:

cgminer -o stratum+tcp://pool.0769.it:3333 -u mywallet --gekko-newpack 100  -p d=128

Thank for the help

I can't say I have, I don't have one.  I think you can use a program called mac ports. 

As far as I know the latest Mac OS is Unix based and has a terminal and such.  You could have some luck if you get the linux like terminal up and running using mac ports. 

If I actually had a mac I could probably walk you through it;  I did it one step at a time using google with my last Mac.  What I mean is that I got the linux terminal to a point that I could use WINE and run windows stuff. 

Good luck!

Has anyone had the chance to test the r606 and newpacs together on a Raspberry Pi 4?  I'm still waiting on my Odroid to arrive.....UPS currently claiming the package is MIA so now having to file a claim and get reimbursed on my purchase :/   So was thinking well, I'll try to pick up a couple of Pi 4's then, one for the small mining farm and the other for a NAS setup.

Thanks

I test up to six R606 at 550MHz (AB) to a hub on an old Dell 755 running Debian 7 with no speed bottlenecks.

i run 6 newpac's on GS hub @650 Mhz (autotune, so some are bit lower) no problem at all. I think u are having a power problem, try a more heavier PS with at least 10A
you should run a R306 per port, dont stack em on a hub or you will get a bottleneck, but maybe when u use an GS hub you can stack
As far as i can see your MB should be ok, when running linux on it you should be even more ok
Limiting factors: as far as i know usb-port, but you got a lot of them, so that should be ok

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@vh regarding latest version and 13 may version when using asic boost and windows 10 gS-hub 6 newpac's

13  may version using targets way to low. When i am using this version with --gekko-noboost, the freq go to 680 Mhz and after that autotune, when using it without this option target freq go to 150 Mhz
latest version: doing better, but freq stay behind @ approx 450 Mhz and some even lower

Switched back to 13th may version without asic boost after 30 mins, results of using it with asic boost are lower than without.

Thanks for this - i was able to compile from r606 branch, but i get repeated "failed to initialize (incorrect device?), resetting" from cgminer.  

when i go to (U)SB management, (L)ist all USB devices, i am able to see two r606 plugged into different ports.  they are assigned "Device 3" and "Device 4".  i cannot get them to initalize, and cgminer hangs in the (U)sb management screen and i must force quit.

does anybody have any ideas for osx? I am running off a macbook5,1 on 10.14.2. thanks.

e- solution was to flatten and install ubuntu.  problems solved XD