[Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive ASICMiner Blade Setup - page 35.

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Quote from: Pistachio on September 21, 2013, 08:23:31 PM

Quote from: xstr8guy on September 21, 2013, 06:25:15 PM

Does anyone have any tips for hooking up a server PSU to the backplane. I'm not sure if I have to do anything special to get it running other than plugging it in directly to the board. I don't want melt my Blades. Sad

The server PSU plugs right in (red pull tab facing away from the blades) and runs at a steady 799 watts. It is loud as crap and feels too heavy for the backplane connector. I would happily swap one for a regular ATX PSU with a 800w or higher ratting.

It went surprisingly smooth, no issues whatsoever. And it looks so much neater without all of those homemade plugs sticking out of the tops of the Blades.

The model I have is the HP DPS 800GB and it's actually very quiet but gets quite warm so I have a 120mm fan blowing in its direction. I also wonder if it can handle a full backplane. I have 6 Blade now and would like to fill it up if I can. It don't think ver. 2 Blades are using as much power as the old Blades since they don't hash as fast. But I'm not sure about that.

Also, where can I get two pin fan connectors that plug directly into the Blades? At least I'm assuming those are fan headers. Right now I have a brand new Corsair AX860 doing nothing but fan duty for the Blades while I wait for my KNC, lol.

Now if someone would just design a proper case, I'd be happy.

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Quote from: xstr8guy on September 21, 2013, 06:25:15 PM

Does anyone have any tips for hooking up a server PSU to the backplane. I'm not sure if I have to do anything special to get it running other than plugging it in directly to the board. I don't want melt my Blades. Sad

The server PSU plugs right in (red pull tab facing away from the blades) and runs at a steady 799 watts. It is loud as crap and feels too heavy for the backplane connector. I would happily swap one for a regular ATX PSU with a 800w or higher ratting.

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Does anyone have any tips for hooking up a server PSU to the backplane. I'm not sure if I have to do anything special to get it running other than plugging it in directly to the board. I don't want melt my Blades. Sad

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I think your idea was very clever, nicely done.

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Adding a timer is straighforward. Not!

Code:

Refresh Interval

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I have now setup 4 proxies on 4 different computers, 2 of them connecting to one pool and the other two connecting to a different pool. Although my blades are still constantly switching servers on the hour mark, they are at least hashing well.

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Quote from: r00t$ on September 20, 2013, 04:39:26 PM

It looks like the link to the proxy executable for windows is down :-(

http://mining.bitcoin.cz/media/download/mining_proxy.exe

Anyone have another source?

Thanks.

It turns out I had a copy of it on my work laptop from a while back. My blade is up and hashing. Thanks dogie!

If you are trying to setup your new blade and are having problems with the proxy download site being down, shoot me a pm and I will send you a link to my Google drive :-)

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It looks like the link to the proxy executable for windows is down :-(

http://mining.bitcoin.cz/media/download/mining_proxy.exe

Anyone have another source?

Thanks.

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Quote from: xstr8guy on September 20, 2013, 12:52:48 AM

Quote from: Vl4dim1r on September 20, 2013, 12:38:29 AM

Alright, I've been hashing for a good several hours now, but my Blade seems to be averaging 8GH/s, I see all "O"s in the web config, so, from what I understand, all the chips are hashing. Is this normal for a board rated 10.7GH/s? Is the Rev 2.01 overclockable?

Not normal. No.

Where are you reading your hash rate? If it's pool stats, most pools take a long time to average out your speed so they will read low at first. If you are reading your hash rate from the Blade's configuration, maybe wait a bit and check after your Blade has run for a while. I can't recall, but I think they may take a while to get up to speed.

And no, the new style blades aren't officially overclocking. I'm sure some hardware hacker will come up with something soon though. Wink

I've been mining for 19 hours now, and its still averaging 8GH/s, reading from both BFGminer and my pool stats.

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Quote from: mdopro1 on September 20, 2013, 10:06:22 AM

My 4 blades are hashing fine but all 4 of them are switching server on the spot at 1 hour mark. I can't figure it out anymore, all is good yet switching servers.

I've got one which is constantly restarting entirely, doesn't seem to be a pattern to it, sometimes it goes for hours, someitmes it goes for minutes. It's hovering in the 12-13gh range when it's working. It's binding to the stratum proxy and working like a champ, though I have a getwork IP as backup.

If I don't have the getwork IP in there and use 2 stratum proxy IPs (whether the same or each is different), it absolutely refuses to hash or connect to a server. The second I put a getwork IP in and restart it, it's fine, and does this "hash for awhile and then reboot" thing.

I'm eyeing another one right now, 3 hours of uptime in the mid 13gh range. Prior to that it ran about 6 hours at 13gh. Same situation, I have to have a getwork IP as one of the server IPs, otherwise it'll constantly reboot.

We are onto something here. Maybe it's affecting all of them but not everyone pays close attention.

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My 4 blades are hashing fine but all 4 of them are switching server on the spot at 1 hour mark. I can't figure it out anymore, all is good yet switching servers.

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FWIW for anyone following my discussion on the blades having hash/reboot/proxy issues, when my blades ARE working they're doing fabulously. Most are between 12.5-13.0 for awhile, I have one which is actually into the mid-upper 13's, knocking on the 14gh door.

That's when they're working.

It would be great if friedcat could give some diagnosis info in case the serial/jtag port on the board is actually readable.

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Quote from: pidge on September 20, 2013, 07:44:41 AM

I've given it a crack, it works.

One thing I've noticed is that the userid given in the blade configuration is used to distinguish between the blades, not the blade IP address.

Oh, and something I threw together to help watch the blades side-by-side:

Code:

The layout can cope with 4, maybe 5 wide on an HD monitor. Add another row for 8 or 10
Replace the IP addresses with your IP addresses, the iframe IDs need to be unique and are ised to link the reload button to the correct iframe
If you click on the update/restart button in a config page, click on the reload button underneath to go back to the config page
Adding a reload time for each should be straightforward

Nice, that is handy. Thanks!

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I've given it a crack, it works.

One thing I've noticed is that the userid given in the blade configuration is used to distinguish between the blades, not the blade IP address.

Oh, and something I threw together to help watch the blades side-by-side:

Code:

The layout can cope with 4, maybe 5 wide on an HD monitor. Add another row for 8 or 10
Replace the IP addresses with your IP addresses, the iframe IDs need to be unique and are ised to link the reload button to the correct iframe
If you click on the update/restart button in a config page, click on the reload button underneath to go back to the config page
Adding a reload time for each should be straightforward

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Quote from: vesperwillow on September 20, 2013, 07:00:46 AM

Quote from: xyzzy099 on September 20, 2013, 06:53:39 AM

The windows support was added in the newest release - 3.2.1. You need to update. I have not tried it on Windows, so I can't personally vouch for how well it works there. On Linux, my blades hash at a very consistent 10.7 GH/s each on Eligius via BFGMiner.

What build of linux do you use it on? I couldn't get the dependancy installed on ubuntu 12.04, the latest build they had was 0.9.27 but BFG required 0.9.5x

I'm using Ubuntu 13.04.

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Quote from: xyzzy099 on September 20, 2013, 06:53:39 AM

The windows support was added in the newest release - 3.2.1. You need to update. I have not tried it on Windows, so I can't personally vouch for how well it works there. On Linux, my blades hash at a very consistent 10.7 GH/s each on Eligius via BFGMiner.

Ahhh! I'll give it a crack.

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I have a fresh build of Ubuntu 13.0.4. I'll spare you the details of wrangling with apt-get etc :|

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Quote from: xyzzy099 on September 20, 2013, 06:53:39 AM

The windows support was added in the newest release - 3.2.1. You need to update. I have not tried it on Windows, so I can't personally vouch for how well it works there. On Linux, my blades hash at a very consistent 10.7 GH/s each on Eligius via BFGMiner.

What build of linux do you use it on? I couldn't get the dependancy installed on ubuntu 12.04, the latest build they had was 0.9.27 but BFG required 0.9.5x

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Quote from: pidge on September 20, 2013, 06:44:28 AM

Quote from: xyzzy099 on September 19, 2013, 06:20:13 AM

Quote from: pidge on September 19, 2013, 06:13:44 AM

Quote from: vulgartrendkill on September 19, 2013, 04:29:23 AM

Can I just say, that the latest bfgminer (released today) has native support for blades so a proxy may not be needed. I've yet to try it myself, but it sounds promising.

The Windows binaries don't provide the http-port option, so I went to the trouble of building an Ubuntu workstation and building bfgminer 3.2 - and that didn't make a difference. Or maybe I was to impatient with it?

The latest Win32 release of BFGMiner DOES support the http-port option. Read the release notes.

Quote from: HellDiverUK on September 19, 2013, 09:26:51 AM

Quote from: pidge on September 19, 2013, 06:13:44 AM

The Windows binaries don't provide the http-port option,

Wrong.

Have either of you tried it? I've downloaded version 3.2.0, both x86 and AMD64 builds.

Code:

C:\Program Files (x86)\BitCoin miner\bfgminer-3.2.0-win32>bfgminer -V
bfgminer 3.2.0

C:\Program Files (x86)\BitCoin miner\bfgminer-3.2.0-win32>bfgminer -o stratum.btcguild.com:3333 -O pjnield_5:1234 --http-port 8533

[2013-09-20 23:13:18] bfgminer: --http-port: unrecognized option

the --http-port option is not listed in the help reported by bgfminer.exe, nor in the linux build, although the feature is s listed in the release notes, and instructions in README.ASIC.txt.

But it's accepted on the linux build I did, and runs quite happily, though the speed reported in Blade config page never seems to reach >10GH like it does with mining_proxy.

I'm confused! Huh

Thats possibly because the feature was added for 3.2.1? I thought that was the case.

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Quote from: pidge on September 20, 2013, 06:44:28 AM

Quote from: xyzzy099 on September 19, 2013, 06:20:13 AM

Quote from: pidge on September 19, 2013, 06:13:44 AM

Quote from: vulgartrendkill on September 19, 2013, 04:29:23 AM

Can I just say, that the latest bfgminer (released today) has native support for blades so a proxy may not be needed. I've yet to try it myself, but it sounds promising.

The Windows binaries don't provide the http-port option, so I went to the trouble of building an Ubuntu workstation and building bfgminer 3.2 - and that didn't make a difference. Or maybe I was to impatient with it?

The latest Win32 release of BFGMiner DOES support the http-port option. Read the release notes.

Quote from: HellDiverUK on September 19, 2013, 09:26:51 AM

Quote from: pidge on September 19, 2013, 06:13:44 AM

The Windows binaries don't provide the http-port option,

Wrong.

Have either of you tried it? I've downloaded version 3.2.0, both x86 and AMD64 builds.

Code:

C:\Program Files (x86)\BitCoin miner\bfgminer-3.2.0-win32>bfgminer -V
bfgminer 3.2.0

C:\Program Files (x86)\BitCoin miner\bfgminer-3.2.0-win32>bfgminer -o stratum.btcguild.com:3333 -O pjnield_5:1234 --http-port 8533

[2013-09-20 23:13:18] bfgminer: --http-port: unrecognized option

the --http-port option is not listed in the help reported by bgfminer.exe, nor in the linux build, although the feature is s listed in the release notes, and instructions in README.ASIC.txt.

But it's accepted on the linux build I did, and runs quite happily, though the speed reported in Blade config page never seems to reach >10GH like it does with mining_proxy.

I'm confused! Huh

The windows support was added in the newest release - 3.2.1. You need to update. I have not tried it on Windows, so I can't personally vouch for how well it works there. On Linux, my blades hash at a very consistent 10.7 GH/s each on Eligius via BFGMiner.

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