Topic: GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread - page 9. (Read 61942 times)

Hello !
I post here because I need some help. I bought 3 GekkoScience NewPac ASIC Miner since a while and I'm encountering a problem with one of them. For the details : I'm running them at 300Mhz with active cooling, they are plugged on a 10-Port USB Hub coming from Sipolar and using a RaspberryPi 4 (the hub is plugged on the 2.0 port). I have the message "0 Chip(s) found" Do you know what can the problem could be ? Thanks !

You use the hubs to power the devices, the chain is for the data.
So e.g. if you have 2 hubs that can power a miner each, then you put a miner in each 'powered' hub and chain them to the computer.

Of course if you are talking about standard USB, you can use a hub to distribute power to multiple devices, but the miners use way too much power to consider doing that.

Hi guys!
New here and searched the 108 pages or this thread but no luck finding a solution to my problem.
So I had the R606 running fine for about a month but now it keeps crashing.
I can plug it in and it turns on normally wit orange and white light but as soon as I connect the USB cable it will shutdown and restart a few times and eventually terminate cgminer.
The same thing happens on Windows 10 or Ubuntu.
Someone mentioned the temp sensor.
Where is it located?
I could try replacing it.
Thanks


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 [2021-10-14 23:58:06.171] Started cgminer 4.11.1-wrk
 [2021-10-14 23:58:06.171] Probing for an alive pool
 [2021-10-14 23:58:06.375] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 8192
 [2021-10-14 23:58:06.489] Rejected untracked stratum share from pool 0
 [2021-10-14 23:58:07.402] 0: GSH 0 - Toggling ASIC nRST to reset
 [2021-10-14 23:58:07.730] 0: GSH 0 - Toggling ASIC nRST to reset
 [2021-10-14 23:58:07.992] 0: GSH 0 - NewPac Bitcoin Miner (10036204)
 [2021-10-14 23:58:07.993] 1: GSH 1 - NewPac Bitcoin Miner (10036884)
 [2021-10-14 23:58:07.993] Network diff set to 19.9T
 [2021-10-14 23:58:33.901] 0: GSI 0 - Toggling ASIC nRST to reset
 [2021-10-14 23:58:34.162] 2: GSI 0 - R606 Bitcoin Miner (10040460)
 [2021-10-14 23:58:34.162] Hotplug: GekkoScience added GSI 0
 [2021-10-14 23:58:36.090] GSI 0 failure, disabling!
 [2021-10-14 23:58:44.568] 0: GSI 0 - Toggling ASIC nRST to reset
 [2021-10-14 23:58:44.831] 3: GSI 1 - R606 Bitcoin Miner (10040460)
 [2021-10-14 23:58:44.831] Hotplug: GekkoScience added GSI 1
 [2021-10-14 23:58:46.769] GSI 1 failure, disabling!

The only concern is that the power hub has enough power per-port available and how it divvies it up. Some like the 7-port one from Plugable can only supply full power (3A) to 3 ports: 1, 3, 5. Ports 2,4,6 & 7 each share regulated power with those 1st 3 I listed.

Most folks here will recommend Sidehack's hub as it can supply 3A per-port (or 6A if you use every other one).

Does anyone know if I can daisy chain powered usb hubs to mine with Gekkoscience Newpacs? My laptop doesn’t have enough USB ports; so I was wondering whether my 3rd powered hub could be connected to the 2nd via usb and still work? Or would that damage the miners?

Thanks for the info! This isn’t the easiest site to navigate, I guess I must’ve missed that thread.

It is all spelled out in the Compaq-F support thread

Direct locations:
The master git for cgminer is https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer

CGMiner README https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer/blob/master/README

That includes linux compile steps, but to repeat, on linux:

CGMiner Windows 10 32bit binary
https://kano.is/cgminer.zip
It will probably work on older windows, but I'm only testing it on Windows 10

The instructions to compile it yourself on Windows 10 are here:
https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer/blob/master/windows-build.txt

As with all USB miners on Windows, you must install Zadig and setup the miner.
This is documented in the CGMiner README https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer/blob/master/README

So, I’ve just searched GitHub and I can’t find 4.12 but maybe I missed it? Would you mind sharing a link if you know where I can get it for windows 10?

Thanks!

All of Sidehack's sticks & pods can be ran off of a single instance of cgminer. The latest 4.12 version done by Kano is needed for the Compaq-F's as the earlier versions done by vh does not have the driver for the F's.

Hi guys,

I’ve just ordered 3 GekkoScience Compac F sticks, and I was hoping that someone would be able to answer this question for me:

Can I run them together with my R606 and my Newpacs using CGMiner, or must I use some other program? In case it matters, I?m using a windows 10 laptop as the head for my miners.

Thanks in advance!

instead of using the .sh file, have you tried just opening terminal and running the command?

I don't think there's a difference but maybe that might work 

Hi everyone  i have a problem i cant get my freq on my newpac not  higher  it starts on 100 mhz and stays there  i try differd things

*Install cgminer again
* created a text .sh file in sgminer folder with
 ./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://sha256.mining-dutch.nl:9996 -u  -p  --suggest-diff 10 --gekko-newpac-freq 200  
And start it here

I run it on a raspberry pi 4

cgminer version 4.11.1 - Started: [2021-10-04 15:14:03.609]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):8.784G (1m):971.8M (5m):199.2M (15m):66.66M (avg):11.70Gh/s
 A:65536  R:0  HW:0  WU:241.7/m
 Connected to sha256.mining-dutch.nl diff 256 with stratum as user
 Block: 12b57583...  Diff:51.8G  Started: [15:14:06.782]  Best share: 215
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 SB management [P]ool management ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 0: GSH 10036027: BM1387:02+ 100.00MHz T:100 P:60  (287:188) | 56.1% WU:^77% | 1
6.87G / 17.30Gh/s WU:241.7/m----------------------------------------------------
 [2021-10-04 15:14:02.087] Started cgminer 4.11.1
 [2021-10-04 15:14:02.087] Loaded configuration file /home/pi/.cgminer/cgminer.c
onf
 [2021-10-04 15:14:02.087] Probing for an alive pool
 [2021-10-04 15:14:02.305] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 65536
 [2021-10-04 15:14:02.305] Network diff set to 1.49G
 [2021-10-04 15:14:02.367] Accepted untracked stratum share from pool 0
 [2021-10-04 15:14:03.335] 0: GSH 0 - Toggling ASIC nRST to reset
 [2021-10-04 15:14:03.608] 0: GSH 0 - NewPac Bitcoin Miner (10036027)
 [2021-10-04 15:14:06.767] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 256
 [2021-10-04 15:14:06.782] Network diff set to 51.8G
 [2021-10-04 15:14:06.782] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block at height 7076
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Maybe someone can help me out

I dont find a conf file like some people  suggested
 

if the usb port is bad - I dont really know how to test that. and I really dont want to wiggle it around. I would hate for the USB to break lose. I need to find out if this unit is the one that sidehack repaired recently and sent back to me.

i'd actually try to rule out the USB cause i think that might be it.

i had a similar issue with mine. I didn't think it was the USB cause on windows it made the USB sound whenever i plugged in & i was able to initialize mining, but it always crashed immediately after. tried different PSUs computers...i eventually got a Pi cause I thought it was a straight up windows thing then got a similar issue on the Pi. Instead of hashing, i just got a "zero chips found" notice. unfortunately i don't recall if it looked similar to your screen but I only had 1 running around that time so that could be why it closed after.

I resolved it by opened everything up and just cleaning it out a bit.  I applied a bit of pressure on the USB area and cleaned it with a tiny bit of ISO. "bro science" as hell but it seemed to work and then i have had no issues since.

Personally I’ve never seen that before. I had newpacs occasionally have the share submission led stay lit constantly but never seen/heard of your particular case before.

yea - just dont know if that means something specifically.

What pool are you trying to use? Did you see my above reply? Other than that, 1st page of this thread should have all the information you need.

Um, what web translator are you using? 1st it thinks 'mining' is 'tow' or 'towing', now it suggests using 'swimming pool' instead of 'mining pool'... 

Yea that top left one is constantly flashing like a strobe. Not just for share submissions.