Topic: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive RockMiner R-Box Setup [HD] - page 3. (Read 59519 times)

In mining, power rating means nothing if the amperage doesn't match up. And tbh if the amperage doesn't match up, don't buy it because it WILL prematurely die. It takes a very strong PSU to run 24/7 like we want for mining.

An R-Box is strictly only 3.5-4A or so each, give them some headroom though.

Ive got a flakey one also, somthing wrong with the USB port.
Ive requested a RMA, but it's been a week and a half, with no reply.

Dogie, do you know how many AMPS the R-Boxes use?

I want to get a cheap(ish) ATX PSU for compactness to run 5 currently with scalability up to 7 or 8 (max)
In terms of power I only need a 550W but I'm concerned about the amperage
I'll obviously be running on the 12V rail using the 6pin PCIE connectors.
Cheapo PSU's are only rated to 16A. Is this enough or will I need at least a 30A

Cheers

The power consumption is fine, only ~230W.

I had an issue with one of mine where it would power on, the fans would spin and the red ligth would come on.
If you did an lsusb - if would show as attached device
but no matter what software you used it wouldn't mine
I just RMA'd it and got a replacement
Maybe you need to too?

superking123,

Tried that and it didn't work either.
Took it over to a friends house, and it didn't work still.

System see the blade, but not the miner details if that makes any sense.

superking123,

Tried that and it didn't work either.
Took it over to a friends house, and it didn't work still.

System see the blade, but not the miner details if that makes any sense.

I've got 3 working off a USB 3.0 hub along with a Gridseed on Windows 8.1 with the Zadigs - no setup work, just plug n' mine.  If they're not working, it might be a USB issue (as mentioned).

Post what you hear from the vendor, should be helpful for everyone.

Further testing leads me to believe one of the miners is actually having USB problems.
When I ran on Raspberry PI, I hooked both miners up, but a 'lsusb' command only showed one miner present at the OS layer. When I disconnected that miner, the other miner then showed up. In my case, im not using a external hub, but plugged both miners directly into USB 2.0 ports on the Windows and RPI machines. Since im getting the same behavior on Windows and Linux, im pretty sure the problem is somewhere in the USB connector or device on the second miner.
I contacted the vendor and requested an RMA, and once I have a new unit, ill re-test.
This could be a voltage-level issue or something which prevents the second miner from being recognized if there is another USB device on the bus.

Here is the screenshot. it is still increasing as i am posting now

Maybe you need to wait quite awhile for technical question.. lol because up till now, mine has no answer too.

This means that it missed your last task and needs to resend it. Perhaps ckkolivas can comment on it. I know that bfgminer encountered a problem like this a month ago and supposedly fixed it so you could try changing to bfgminer if all else fails. See link here Luke talks about it:

https://gitorious.org/bitcoin/bfgminer/commit/09c3f36c71e8977fa7817ee3d6aa1e6037bc149f

I am wondering why it would do something like this. What kind of hub are you using? Is it USB 3.0? That could be interferring with communication also, could you please try this version of cgminer:

I have found it a lot more stable than the new fork for some unknown reason:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/fkkrvgyb54yi3b7/rbox_cgminer.rar

EDIT: I have also posted your problem on the main cgminer thread here:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/official-cgminer-mining-software-thread-for-linuxwinosxmipsarmr-pi-4110-28402

Maybe you need to wait quite awhile for technical question.. lol because up till now, mine has no answer too.

Tried to get 2x rockminers working at the same time, just doesn't seem possible.
Ive tried Windows 7, Windows XP, Raspberry PI.
Both miners work fine individaully, and both work at the same time on different machines.
However, I cannot get both to run at the same time on the same machine.
Ive got no ideas on how to proceed with this configuration any further.
Suggestions?

I downloaded the Rpi image from Rockminer (both 0.3.1 & 1.3.0), but neither of them sees the R-Box.

The fan is going, and a red LED is on the miner, but it's not seen.

Supposedly this image has everything you need ypo run the R-BOX.

Anyone have any suggestions?

I've already tried 2 different USB cable, a 1A & 2.1A PS on the RPi, the 12V supply for the R-BOX is a 12v 6A.


Thanks,
David

Hi all.
Just wanted to share my experience with the Rockminer R-Box on Raspberry pi.
I didn't realise there were any guides so I just sort of winged it, and I guess you can too.
I have 2 running at the moment on a powered USB hub at 290MHz and getting a combined of 71GHS
Raspberry Pi Model B

(sorry for poor formatting, this is just a quick explanation)
My steps:
Install Raspian from the Raspberry Pi website (in fact I used NOOBS to install it to a 32gb micro-SD with an SD card adapter)
SSH in from my windows box
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0-dev libusb-1.0-0 libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libudev-dev (to get the dependencies)
sudo wget http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/cgminer-4.4.2.tar.bz2
sudo tar xvf cgminer-4.4.2.tar.bz2
(rename to cgminer) sudo mv cgminer-4.4.2 cgminer
cd cgminer
./configure --enable-icarus (let it churn and burn for like 15 minutes)
make

Now it's all working with CLI (no webserver or anything, cause I don't like it)

Now I just run it with

screen sudo ./cgminer -o blablah -u blah -p blah --rock-freq 290

The screen command just lets it run in the background even when you close the the SSH session.

I also just made a little shell script that runs on boot, reboot the pi and you're good to go.

Hope that helps anyone who's been struggling.

1GvWrJSLNafra26jDwpScY5bqYcQ6BDhPW --- Tips always gratefully accepted

You can clone your current SD card with a windows PC. Make an image of it using SD imager software, then burn that image to a 2nd SD card.