GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread - page 68.

joe7893

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First to my previous problem I think I have worked it out to a power issue. I can get 3 Newpaks to run at 400MHZ on a GekkoScirence hub with 8 Amp power supply. If I try a fourth one then it eventually kicks one or more of off. So my question is have I got it wrong? I don't have the meter to confirm this unfortunately. But I want to think that I am wrong because why build a hub with the ability to run 7 sticks if you cant feed it enough power to do so?

After much trial and error this is what I ended up with to get stable. I have 1 stick in a usb on the PC directly and 4 on the hub. ! of the ones on the hub shut itself off. Lots of reading on the previous posts to even get to here.

Code:

cgminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://dgb1.coinfoundry.org:3174 -u [...] -p x --widescreen --gekko-tune-down 90 --gekko-newpac-freq 400

Second what is the minimum system needed to run a farm. I have a MSI H270-A Pro motherboard that I was going to build out for GPU mining. Could I instead build it out with Linux and run a far of sticks on it? Lots of USB ports on this thing. Limiting factors? RAM needed? Run from Thumb drive -vs- SSD?
Could I run say 6 R606 one to a USB port? or can you put multiple R606 on a hub without hitting a USB bottleneck?

Sorry lots of questions. Tweaking these things is a bit addictive.

demagogue

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Just wanted to post an update: Received my RMA unit from 419 mining today. While the box was a little squished, the miner arrived unharmed. It's currently crunching away on it's inagural session.

Thanks 419, the other unit will be in the mail tomorrow night.

K21000

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Has anyone managed to get the R606 to run on a mac?

mstrozier

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Thanks @DieselWeaseI and @cliftonk. I have a Odroid XU4 that should be here Thursday of this week. Maybe the 3.0 port is just finicky on my Linux Box Huh

It's a MSI - 970 gaming motherboard with FX-6300 running it. Every time I connect my miners to the 3.0 slots on this box they fail. About to swap out the cpu for a fx-8350 that is sitting in my closet. Building a NAS unit at home (Raspberry Pi was more of a testing with OMV, using something else for the main box) to store media etc. And need something in this box a little stronger than the 6300 for processing all of the media (conversions etc) and still keep the miners running.

However once the xu4 gets here, if all works well that should be able to power my mining rigs without trouble since you guys are having good luck with them. Excited to test it out.

joe7893

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OK I am running 5 NewPacs on a Gekkoscience hub with 8 amp barrel power plus cooling. I am having an issue with everything running great for a while and then randomly 1 or 2 of the NewPacs will shut themselves off and stay off. Any ideas on the cause? This set up ran great for 4 or 5 days straight then out of the blue this started. It is not always the same NewPac each time.

rockmoney

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cliftonk

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Quote from: DieselWeaseI on July 14, 2019, 12:47:29 PM

FWIW...my Odroid N2 only has USB 3.0 ports on it and I can crank my Newpacs and R606 to the moon on it using the Gekko USB hub. Never once had an issue pop up and have run my 606 all the way up to 775MHz for a few days without cgminer tuning it down.

I'm currently running the R606 at 700MHz and 2 Newpacs at 500MHz. WU is at 100%.

Like @DieselWeaseI, my Odroid N2 has been running flawlessly for three weeks, but with three R606s instead of one -- mine are trying to run @575MHz though, and all at 100% WU. The first R606 can only do 538 MHz @ Volt setting 4, the other two run @ 575 Mhz -- no problem. The Odroid N2 has six cores (4x1.8 and 2x1.9) and 4Gb of ram -- very nice little SBC running Ubuntu Mint.

DieselWeaseI

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FWIW...my Odroid N2 only has USB 3.0 ports on it and I can crank my Newpacs and R606 to the moon on it using the Gekko USB hub. Never once had an issue pop up and have run my 606 all the way up to 775MHz for a few days without cgminer tuning it down.

I'm currently running the R606 at 700MHz and 2 Newpacs at 500MHz. WU is at 100%.

os2sam

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Think for yourself

Quote from: demagogue on July 13, 2019, 09:54:49 AM

Yep, just the gekko option, and without any of the other miners plugged in.

It would probably be prudent to test it on another machine if you have a Winblows on Linux desktop available. But it sounds like it's time to contact your reseller if you haven't already.

demagogue

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Yep, just the gekko option, and without any of the other miners plugged in.

os2sam

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Think for yourself

I would NOT download CGMiner from anywhere but a trusted source, vh in this case, so I have no idea where you would have gotten the 4.9.2 as ck doesn't provide the old versions anymore, that I'm aware of anyway. So please be careful to not get hacked versions.

Anyway it sounds like you need to contact your reseller for some testing steps.

Quote from: demagogue on July 13, 2019, 08:20:32 AM

-Redownloaded the gekkoscience 4.11 cgminer build and only plugged the terminus into it. Same issue...

Did you build this instance with only the gekko option?

demagogue

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Yep, tried running it by itself on the Rpi, same issue. After posting last night I also:

-Redownloaded the gekkoscience 4.11 cgminer build and only plugged the terminus into it. Same issue
-Re-formatted and installed raspbian onto the Pi, installed latest updates, and then reinstalled the gekkoscience build. Same issue.
-Downloaded cgminer 4.9.2 and built with gekko support flag. Same issue.

The fan on the R606 spins up, orange lights power up, and the white LED blinks while the Pi attempts communication, but cgminer gives up after 4 tries and marks the device as Zombie, then Dead.

Regarding the old stuff, yeah, I know.. It was more of a sanity test to make sure the other subsystems were still functioning properly at that point.

os2sam

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Think for yourself

Did you try running the R606 by itself? If not try that to verify it work's. The Block Erupter and Jalapeno don't bring anything much to the party anyway.

demagogue

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Hi Everyone,

I believe this is my first post, but I'm just jumping back into mining after a few years hiatus - got burned by Butterfly Labs and MTGOX a few years back and called it quits for a while.

I'd been researching for a good quiet home miner setup and settled on the Terminus R606 (actually planning on up to 5 over a few months) and a RPi3 SBC to start, later ramping up to an octo-core ARM SBC or Intel Nuc of some kind running debian or ubuntu.

Just got my R606 yesterday, hooked it up, had cgminer 4.11 (gekko build) installed and preconfigured.

The miner ran great, around 628Mhz on voltage 5 in a ~70-75F condo (ground floor on concrete pad, shaded) overnight.

Went to work, got home, miners are not blinking.

Tried to SSH into the Pi, unresponsive.

Rebooted the Pi, restarted cgminer and got this output:

Code:

cgminer version 4.11.1 - Started: [2019-07-12 18:36:51.907]
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(5s):8.065G (1m):5.580G (5m):1.683G (15m):605.4M (avg):8.070Gh/s
A:0 R:0 HW:8 WU:102.0/m
Connected to stratum.slushpool.com diff 512 with stratum as user demagogue.pim1
Block: d874076c... Diff:9.06T Started: [18:36:51.908] Best share: 103
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[U]SB management [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
0: BAJ 0 : max 38C 0.99V | 7.695G / 7.711Gh/s WU:98.8/m
2: AMU 0 : | 363.1M / 345.1Mh/s WU: 3.3/m
4: GSI 10040137: found 0 chip(s) | OFF
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[2019-07-12 18:36:49.038] Started cgminer 4.11.1
[2019-07-12 18:36:49.039] Loaded configuration file /home/pi/cgminer-gekko-4.11/cgminer.conf
[2019-07-12 18:36:49.039] Probing for an alive pool
[2019-07-12 18:36:49.417] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 8192
[2019-07-12 18:36:50.589] 0: GSI 0 - Toggling ASIC nRST to reset
[2019-07-12 18:36:51.907] 1: GSI 0 - R606 Bitcoin Miner (10040137)
[2019-07-12 18:36:51.908] Network diff set to 9.06T
[2019-07-12 18:36:56.908] API running in IP access mode on port 4028 (16)
[2019-07-12 18:37:12.562] GSI 0 failure, disabling!
[2019-07-12 18:37:14.333] 0: GSI 0 - Toggling ASIC nRST to reset
[2019-07-12 18:37:19.928] Hotplug: GekkoScience added GSI 1
[2019-07-12 18:37:25.998] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 1638
[2019-07-12 18:37:25.999] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[2019-07-12 18:37:40.606] GSI 1 failure, disabling!
[2019-07-12 18:37:42.353] 0: GSI 0 - Toggling ASIC nRST to reset
[2019-07-12 18:37:42.948] Hotplug: GekkoScience added GSI 2
[2019-07-12 18:37:56.287] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 512
[2019-07-12 18:37:56.287] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart

Eventually cgminer gives up and gives me this status for the device:

Code:

4: GSI 10040137: found 0 chip(s) | OFF

Verbose Output in cgminer gives me floods of this:

Code:

[2019-07-12 18:40:59.366] GSI2: GetResults (amt=0 err=-7 ern=110)
[2019-07-12 18:40:59.387] GSI2: GetResults (amt=0 err=-7 ern=110)
[2019-07-12 18:40:59.406] GSI2: GetResults (amt=0 err=-7 ern=110)

And this:

Code:

[2019-07-12 18:42:31.746] GSX looking for GSD 10c4:ea60 but found 0424:7800 instead
[2019-07-12 18:42:31.746] GSX looking for GSE 10c4:ea60 but found 0424:7800 instead
[2019-07-12 18:42:31.746] GSX looking for GSH 0403:6015 but found 0424:7800 instead
[2019-07-12 18:42:31.746] GSX looking for GSI 0403:6015 but found 0424:7800 instead
[2019-07-12 18:42:31.746] GSX looking for BSC 10c4:ea60 but found 0424:2514 instead
[2019-07-12 18:42:31.746] GSX looking for BSD 10c4:ea60 but found 0424:2514 instead
[2019-07-12 18:42:31.746] GSX looking for BSE 10c4:ea60 but found 0424:2514 instead
[2019-07-12 18:42:31.746] GSX looking for GSC 10c4:ea60 but found 0424:2514 instead
[2019-07-12 18:42:31.746] GSX looking for GSD 10c4:ea60 but found 0424:2514 instead
[2019-07-12 18:42:31.746] GSX looking for GSE 10c4:ea60 but found 0424:2514 instead

So unless there's some sort of soft reset on the miner that can possibly get it back up and running I'm looking at a warranty replacement? Does anyone have any tips to troubleshoot this sort of issue? I've been roaming back and forth in this thread trying things and nothing's worked so far. I've done all the simple stuff like repeated power cycling of the r606 and tried to hook it up to my windows gaming rig but even after running Zadig it wouldn't even display the GSI device, much less give me a status or miraculously recover it.

It really seems like the controller is initializing and identifying properly on the USB bus, but it's not able to enumerate or initialize any of the actual ASICs.

Well, maybe I can alibaba some replacement BM1387's and reflow solder the board if all else fails.

419mining

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Quote from: syn00ack on July 12, 2019, 03:39:04 PM

If nicehash accepts my old CPU's H/s hashes, why won't they allow my 22 GH/s hashes from the ASICS?

Remember, my cpu's aren't actually mining, i'm doing their "sell your hash power" program, and I'm trying to get my NEWPAC to participate in that same program. They do have a webpage devoted to using your SHA256 ASICS and selling their hash power, so I know ASICS are supported in their sell your hash power program.

sorry, if I wasn't clear. Nicehash is accepting hashes from your ASICs when your ASIC submits a share that is above the pools minimum share size. So the current difficulty is 9.06T and the pool says, "I wont accept anything less than 500M", your ASICs are still working, they just haven't found anything over 500M YET. the Best Share listed on the cgminer screen is the best hash you have submitted so far since cgminer started.

I always recommend new miners read a few articles on how hash mining works, here are a few of my favorites to get you started

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2527325 - CGMiner "Best Share"

https://blockgeeks.com/guides/what-is-hashing/
https://www.bitcoinmining.com/what-is-bitcoin-mining-difficulty/
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty

https://btc.com/stats/diff - current difficulty

syn00ack

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Quote from: 419mining on July 12, 2019, 12:05:55 PM

syn00ack, welcome to the group!

So you are hashing but your mining on nicehash and they are autosetting your difficulty to around 500M. From you post your best share so far was 6.87K so unless your work share is greater than 500M, you wont see a submission.

But i haven ancient Radeon R9's and even Intel I3 CPU's that are hashing for me and giving me at least .0029 mBTC daily running on their NiceHash Legacy miner. The new GekkoScience NEWPACS are ASICS and have much more hashing power than the CPU hashing I'm doing.

If nicehash accepts my old CPU's H/s hashes, why won't they allow my 22 GH/s hashes from the ASICS?

Remember, my cpu's aren't actually mining, i'm doing their "sell your hash power" program, and I'm trying to get my NEWPAC to participate in that same program. They do have a webpage devoted to using your SHA256 ASICS and selling their hash power, so I know ASICS are supported in their sell your hash power program.

419mining

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The fans push down, moving as much as as possible over the NewPac heat sinks. As for the hubs, don't daisy chain or you will end up having USB bandwidth issues which cause missing nonces.

joe7893

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Couple of Question.

1. When you guys use fans over the hub are you pushing air down or pulling air up?

2. Once you move on to a 2nd hub can you daisy chain them together or does each hub need to go to a USB port on your controller (PC in my case currently)?

Thanks,

419mining

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Quote from: os2sam on July 12, 2019, 04:27:53 AM

... Where are you guys getting the Pi 4 from? Newegg doesn't have them and that is where I usually buy my tech from since they accept Bitcoin.

I have a bulk on order from Newark, but they are always on back order right now.
https://www.newark.com/MarketingProductList?orderCode=02AH3161,02AH3162,02AH3164&ICID=HP-LB-Raspberry-Pi-4-Launch-Buy-Now

mstrozier

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I have tried Nicehash a couple of times and like 419mining said, pretty much won't get any shares. I've never had any luck with them. so routed my miners to prohashing.com.

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