Topic: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive ASICMiner Blade Setup - page 33. (Read 580775 times)

Question:

Does my 100mbps network switch have enough throughput to cope with 2 blades at 10.3 gh and 2 other miners (on the way) using ethernet (rated at 32gh each)?

The reason I ask is because I seem to be getting a lot of rejected/stale shares with my blades. my total hash rate currently is approx 22.5gh with the blades.

Does anyone know what how much network throughput Blades use per second?  surely its Kb and not Mb?

Yeah I was thinking that.  What I'd really like is for v2 blades to have stratum support (surely thats possible, right?) So no faffing with proxies etc.  Still, BFG now has one built in.

Sorry I couldn't be of any further help.  I'm still learning about the blades too.

Well, my non-contact laser thermometer says the hottest point in either blade is about 40 degrees C. That's the column of chips that is furthest from the 110 cfm fan, on the front board (no air channel in front of it, so the far end gets less flow). Both heatsinks register at 25-30 deg C (lower nearest the fan).

I guess I'll just be satisfied with the hashing reported by BitMinter. Sure seems pathetic to pay $500/board, and not have the firmware be even vaguely accurate. You'd think that the manufacturer would open source the firmware, if only to get more quality in his next round of boards, more quickly. I'd sure spend the time to buff up the firmware if they did!

Ok, well If your pool or mining software is showing the correct values, I shouldn't worry too much, as in my experience with blades that is the more accurate.  I assume you have adequate cooling?  I recently added a 20cm fan to my set up and the config pages showed a 400 mh jump in both blades.

I understand your concerns, but as I said, the config pages are inaccurate to say the least.  Sounds like they are both hashing ok to me.

Ummm, Vulgartrendkill, I've refreshed both config pages many, many times.... doesn't seem to matter.... all the numbers stay in the same ballpark. I don't expect them to be great, but being off by a factor of 10-20 seems to indicate something wrong...

Bizarre as it sounds the config page might not be so accurate. try refreshing the page a few times on each blade, that usually helps for me.

I've an interesting problem... I just received 10 @ V2 blades, and backplane. I hooked up power, plugged in 2 of the blades one at a time, went to the configuration, and set each to a unique IP address. I also set up to mine at BitMinter's getwork-proxy. Then I watched, for  few hours, as the two blades came online, and Bitminter's stats page showed them mining, about as expected. On the average, over the last 8 hours, they added 21+GH/s to my mining, just as expected.

Here's the problem:

The configuration pages for the two blades show Total MHS of 704 & 687, and efficiencies in the range of 6-7%.
This has not changed over the hours, with many, many refreshes. (Of course, the numbers change slightly, but they stay in the same ballpark).

Anyone have any ideas why the blades report 0.7GH/s while Bitminter reports 10.8GH/s (and pays out at that rate!).
Anyone know exactly what the "efficiency" refers to (it's actually the ratio of "Accepted" / "Received", but I have no idea what those two reported numbers actually mean, since they don't correlate to anything I can watch/find in the system).

Any insight would be gratefully appreciated. Anyone who knows where to find the actual description of all the blade's web interface would be rewarded! ($5 in BTC to the guru who knows this magic)

Thanks,
DickMS

I appreciate it man, now Im able to switch to whatever pool I want. I don't have the bfgminer  [P]ool thing. but I don't care it working and don't really wann stop it

I switched to bfgminer, 3 mins later Im hashing for me instead of btcguild donations. Lol yup 4 hours worth from this guy

You must put your user:pass TWO times (look at the OPs initial post), like this:

user:pass,user:pass

That way it WILL save your user and pass information. Also, you CAN use "." in your username. In fact, I'm right now successfully mining with my "x.asic"-user, have been mining since yesterday. It works.

Bfgminer is not seeing my Blade, what should the config on the blade be

indeed it does, but in the .bat file you need to enter --http-port 8332.  this tells bfg to listen to port 8332 which is the usual getwork port on the blade.

Like this:

bfgminer -T --http-port 8332 -o us2.eclipsemc.com:3333 -u VULGART -p 123 -L log.txt -G -S all --icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100

I have it up and mining, but it only works pointed to Coinotron

Does Bfgminer support blades?

For quick setup using Stratum mining proxy see my post here...
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.3213439

Also, I don't think you should be using "." between your username and workername.  Use "_"

Im having issues getting with format for the sever. My blade does not want to save the userpass

My proxy runs on my pc with 192.168.1.100

userpass im trying to set is i3lome.1:x

If you are using the mining proxy program, it should be the ip of your computer. eg 192.168.1.1, as far as I know.  BFGminer has a proxy built in.

I'm a newbie to Blade mining. I've been mining with 28 USB erupters through cgminer but recently decided to upgrade to two blades. I'm confused about configuring the blade. On the page  "192.168.1.254:8000" to configure the blade I'm unclear about the IPs How do I find the IP of my stratum proxy?

Adding to the stratum proxy conversation, I can suggest BFGMiner, it is similar to cgminer, but has built-in getwork support, so you can have a "normal" mining interface for all your blades. Check out the thread here on bitcointalk.

It's working well for me, seems to be a bit more stable than the standard proxy.

Because it was really difficult for me to find this file initially because its original download location has a broken link, I put the Stratum Proxy up on my Media Fire account.  This is the Windows version, btw.

A big thanks to whomever originally gave it to me!  I was unable to get the blades working at all until I set them up with the proxy.  The deprecation of the Getwork protocol has pretty much required that you have a separate computer running a stratum proxy for your blades.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/744mhjx4fjdmvu4/mining_proxy.zip

In order to use it, I made a batch file in the folder I unzipped the program into. 

1.  Say you unzipped the mining_proxy.exe file into a folder on your hard drive called 'C:\bitcoin\proxy\'

2.  Create a new text file in that folder called 'run.bat' (change the extension from .txt to .bat)

3.  Right click on the 'run.bat' file and enter the following text:  mining_proxy.exe -o stratum.btcguild.com -p 3333   (this is obviously for BTCGuild.  Find the stratum server for your own pool and replace the -o parameter with that information)

4.  Save the changes to your batch file.

5.  Your blades should be configured with the ip address of the computer you are running the stratum proxy on.  In order to determine the address of the computer, open up a command prompt (go to the start bar, type 'cmd' into the search box, and start up cmd.exe.  Type in the command 'ipconfig' and hit enter.   Your address will look something like the following:    IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.17

5.  This step was important for me.  I had to turn off my blades first, then start the batch file (double click on it, as if you were running any program).  Now that there is a command line window open and you can see the stratum proxy is running, power on your blades.