[GUIDE] GridSeed 5-Chip USB, Blade & Black Miner Support/Tuning - page 53.

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Quote from: jjj0923 on April 01, 2014, 12:00:27 PM

Quote from: jamieb81 on March 30, 2014, 11:32:28 AM

Quote from: suchmoon on March 30, 2014, 03:14:33 AM

Quote from: Firetripper on March 30, 2014, 02:46:10 AM

I'm familiar with virtual com ports and all that from phone flashing.

I was able to get it working on a custom clean installed Windows 8.1 64 bit computer. I used the WinUSB and a copy of CGminer. I could NOT get this thing to work on Usb 3 and on any laptop I had.

Now I can only get two on, the rest are not detected. Does BAMT with a modified cgminer work for this asic

For me it didn't work connected directly to an USB 3 port but worked on a USB 2 hub connected to a USB 3 port. Not sure what would be an issue with a laptop.

BAMT is a bit of an overkill for this, since it has all that AMD crud installed. But yes, you can compile a modified cgminer version on it and it would work. I don't know if it would help with USB 3 though.

I think it's still a minority that cannot make the Gridseed's work, there has been hundreds of thousands sold, and you see very few people with problems. As for USB3 we all know they only work well on UB2 port and hub

I've had my gridseeds for two weeks now. the first week I was running 20 off a Pi Rasberry with cpuminer and they'd run great for about 8 to 10 hours then they'd just slow down and my pool stats would start off showing them as running at about 7,200 Kh/s and then they'd start to slow down to abut 3,500 Khs and I'd reboot the Pi and they'd run fine again.

I got tired of this after about 5 days so last saturday I put Ubuntu server 13.04 on an old PC I had laying around and downloaded and compiled cgminer for gridseed and for about about 100 hours now and they've been perfect - non stop.

Wow! That's great! Please keep us informed on your system setup stability. I'd be very interested in learning how you set that all up and duplicate your successful conf-rig-uration Wink

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Quote from: rob1313 on April 01, 2014, 01:47:14 PM

Ya i also tried to get ubunto 13.1 running but i get compiling errors and then the system don't fully work. i be trying it again today. i would even pay .1 btc for a good guide for a fresh install. the one i found in the other main gridseed discussion thread worked ok until i had compiling errors and did not know what to do.

Install Ubuntu Server 12.04.4 LTS: ubuntu-12.04.4-server-amd64.iso

Update Ubuntu and install git

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install git

Install dependencies, compile then run dtbartle cgminer

Code:

cd ~
sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake pkg-config libtool libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libudev-dev
sudo git clone git://github.com/dtbartle/cgminer-gc3355.git
cd cgminer-gc3355
sudo CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall" ./configure --enable-scrypt --enable-gridseed
sudo make

sudo ./cgminer --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://xpool.net:8820 -u x -p x --gridseed-options=baud=115200,freq=850,chips=5 --hotplug 0

That is all! Seems so simple but it took a lot of effort to get here.

Useful options

Code:

sudo apt-get install openssh-server	#if not installed during setup
sudo apt-get install screen             #to run cgminer in the background

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Quote from: jjj0923 on April 01, 2014, 12:00:27 PM

Quote from: jamieb81 on March 30, 2014, 11:32:28 AM

Quote from: suchmoon on March 30, 2014, 03:14:33 AM

Quote from: Firetripper on March 30, 2014, 02:46:10 AM

I'm familiar with virtual com ports and all that from phone flashing.

I was able to get it working on a custom clean installed Windows 8.1 64 bit computer. I used the WinUSB and a copy of CGminer. I could NOT get this thing to work on Usb 3 and on any laptop I had.

Now I can only get two on, the rest are not detected. Does BAMT with a modified cgminer work for this asic

For me it didn't work connected directly to an USB 3 port but worked on a USB 2 hub connected to a USB 3 port. Not sure what would be an issue with a laptop.

BAMT is a bit of an overkill for this, since it has all that AMD crud installed. But yes, you can compile a modified cgminer version on it and it would work. I don't know if it would help with USB 3 though.

I think it's still a minority that cannot make the Gridseed's work, there has been hundreds of thousands sold, and you see very few people with problems. As for USB3 we all know they only work well on UB2 port and hub

I've had my gridseeds for two weeks now. the first week I was running 20 off a Pi Rasberry with cpuminer and they'd run great for about 8 to 10 hours then they'd just slow down and my pool stats would start off showing them as running at about 7,200 Kh/s and then they'd start to slow down to abut 3,500 Khs and I'd reboot the Pi and they'd run fine again.

I got tired of this after about 5 days so last saturday I put Ubuntu server 13.04 on an old PC I had laying around and downloaded and compiled cgminer for gridseed and for about about 100 hours now and they've been perfect - non stop.

I had the same experience on the Pi with 20 Gridseeds using cgminer. I ended up returning it to the store. Fortunately they gave me a complete refund

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Quote from: lajz99 on April 01, 2014, 01:50:20 PM

Just an FYI for those of you using a Rasp Pi...I've had 6 running on a Pi using HASHRA for over a week now with 0 restarts and 0 down time. Use HASHRA.

Yea, my HASHRA image works great, but does restart periodically. I just look at the web page and it shows how long it's been running, and I see the number reset periodically.
Running 10 GSDs each on 2 PIs.
Even with the restart, I don't see any gaps in the charts at the pool, so the restart is very quick.

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Just an FYI for those of you using a Rasp Pi...I've had 6 running on a Pi using HASHRA for over a week now with 0 restarts and 0 down time. Use HASHRA.

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Ya i also tried to get ubunto 13.1 running but i get compiling errors and then the system don't fully work. i be trying it again today. i would even pay .1 btc for a good guide for a fresh install. the one i found in the other main gridseed discussion thread worked ok until i had compiling errors and did not know what to do.

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Quote from: jjj0923 on April 01, 2014, 12:00:27 PM

Quote from: jamieb81 on March 30, 2014, 11:32:28 AM

Quote from: suchmoon on March 30, 2014, 03:14:33 AM

Quote from: Firetripper on March 30, 2014, 02:46:10 AM

I'm familiar with virtual com ports and all that from phone flashing.

I was able to get it working on a custom clean installed Windows 8.1 64 bit computer. I used the WinUSB and a copy of CGminer. I could NOT get this thing to work on Usb 3 and on any laptop I had.

Now I can only get two on, the rest are not detected. Does BAMT with a modified cgminer work for this asic

For me it didn't work connected directly to an USB 3 port but worked on a USB 2 hub connected to a USB 3 port. Not sure what would be an issue with a laptop.

BAMT is a bit of an overkill for this, since it has all that AMD crud installed. But yes, you can compile a modified cgminer version on it and it would work. I don't know if it would help with USB 3 though.

I think it's still a minority that cannot make the Gridseed's work, there has been hundreds of thousands sold, and you see very few people with problems. As for USB3 we all know they only work well on UB2 port and hub

I've had my gridseeds for two weeks now. the first week I was running 20 off a Pi Rasberry with cpuminer and they'd run great for about 8 to 10 hours then they'd just slow down and my pool stats would start off showing them as running at about 7,200 Kh/s and then they'd start to slow down to abut 3,500 Khs and I'd reboot the Pi and they'd run fine again.

I got tired of this after about 5 days so last saturday I put Ubuntu server 13.04 on an old PC I had laying around and downloaded and compiled cgminer for gridseed and for about about 100 hours now and they've been perfect - non stop.

I have NONE experience with Ubunto ( or a Pi ) but I know I asked someone and he runs even more of them on xubuntu with 0 problem

I've been looking a bit in how to use Ubuntu, but coming from windows experience only, it seems a bit complicated all that compiling etc.. ^^

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Quote from: jamieb81 on March 30, 2014, 11:32:28 AM

Quote from: suchmoon on March 30, 2014, 03:14:33 AM

Quote from: Firetripper on March 30, 2014, 02:46:10 AM

I'm familiar with virtual com ports and all that from phone flashing.

I was able to get it working on a custom clean installed Windows 8.1 64 bit computer. I used the WinUSB and a copy of CGminer. I could NOT get this thing to work on Usb 3 and on any laptop I had.

Now I can only get two on, the rest are not detected. Does BAMT with a modified cgminer work for this asic

For me it didn't work connected directly to an USB 3 port but worked on a USB 2 hub connected to a USB 3 port. Not sure what would be an issue with a laptop.

BAMT is a bit of an overkill for this, since it has all that AMD crud installed. But yes, you can compile a modified cgminer version on it and it would work. I don't know if it would help with USB 3 though.

I think it's still a minority that cannot make the Gridseed's work, there has been hundreds of thousands sold, and you see very few people with problems. As for USB3 we all know they only work well on UB2 port and hub

I've had my gridseeds for two weeks now. the first week I was running 20 off a Pi Rasberry with cpuminer and they'd run great for about 8 to 10 hours then they'd just slow down and my pool stats would start off showing them as running at about 7,200 Kh/s and then they'd start to slow down to abut 3,500 Khs and I'd reboot the Pi and they'd run fine again.

I got tired of this after about 5 days so last saturday I put Ubuntu server 13.04 on an old PC I had laying around and downloaded and compiled cgminer for gridseed and for about about 100 hours now and they've been perfect - non stop.

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Quote from: wolfey2014 on March 31, 2014, 06:07:27 PM

Can someone write a Windows program to encapsulate all miner windows in one or two windows with say 10 miners running per window?
Can batch files be created to automate these tasks. I need a macro program sophisticated enough to perform all tasks required for soft restarting miners. I know it can't be programmed to monitor each separate window. That would require too much overhead anyway.

I think it should be easy enough to translate miaviator's cpuminer shell start-up:

Quote from: miaviator on March 01, 2014, 12:04:09 PM

Code:

sudo -s
cd ~/usb-miner/software/cpuminer
for i in `seq 0 10`; do screen -dmS $i ./minerd -G /dev/ttyACM$i -F 800 -o stratum+tcp://stratum.scryptguild.com:3333 -u unicornhasher -px;done

I use something similar at home. Can you run an instance of cgminer per gridseed, the way you do with cpuminer? Some Gridseeds prefer a different OC frequency to others.

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Quote from: rob1313 on March 31, 2014, 05:47:13 PM

Quote from: jamieb81 on March 31, 2014, 12:55:34 PM

Quote from: suchmoon on March 31, 2014, 12:54:18 PM

Quote from: usao on March 31, 2014, 12:41:30 PM

Ratz. When I restarted, cgminer no-longer sees any of the GSDs...

Sorry, can't help you much here, I couldn't get cgminer to work myself. It would recognize miners if I specified hotplug option and unplugged/replugged them, but that was just too much hassle.

I see to many people having problems with cgminer.

most people that have not more than 5/6 miners go with CPUminer. BFGminer seems to be not that bad too

especially that with those you dont need any zadig driver mod

Ya and i cant get bfg past 23 miners and it crashes.

I've been wondering. What is so bad about having to run all those cpuminer windows if the process is automated?
It can be using a Macro program. But the macro program I am using - 'Macro Express' - copies and plays back all mouse moves, clicks and keys. Only problem is it won't record or play back mouse moves inside of device manager keeping me from using it to schedule automated restarts of the comm ports every x period.
Can someone write a Windows program to encapsulate all miner windows in one or two windows with say 10 miners running per window?
Can batch files be created to automate these tasks. I need a macro program sophisticated enough to perform all tasks required for soft restarting miners. I know it can't be programmed to monitor each separate window. That would require too much overhead anyway.
I'd love to see cpuminer improved in these simple ways. If I could, I would have been working on it already.
Then there is no more need to hassle with other inadequate programs obviously not fulfilling what is really needed and wanted. I'm sure writing software for these things is quite the challenge, even for the most seasoned hacker Wink

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Quote from: jamieb81 on March 31, 2014, 12:55:34 PM

Quote from: suchmoon on March 31, 2014, 12:54:18 PM

Quote from: usao on March 31, 2014, 12:41:30 PM

Ratz. When I restarted, cgminer no-longer sees any of the GSDs...

Sorry, can't help you much here, I couldn't get cgminer to work myself. It would recognize miners if I specified hotplug option and unplugged/replugged them, but that was just too much hassle.

I see to many people having problems with cgminer.

most people that have not more than 5/6 miners go with CPUminer. BFGminer seems to be not that bad too

especially that with those you dont need any zadig driver mod

Ya and i cant get bfg past 23 miners and it crashes.

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Anyone here knows a dev or something that could cook a version of CPUminer etc..

like I stated before, would be just wonderfull to have a GUI where we could monitor each miner, apply voltmods on the fly, make pool mods etc etc
instead of having multiple cpu miners of modded cg/bfg miner etc..

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Quote from: jamieb81 on March 31, 2014, 12:55:34 PM

Quote from: suchmoon on March 31, 2014, 12:54:18 PM

Quote from: usao on March 31, 2014, 12:41:30 PM

Ratz. When I restarted, cgminer no-longer sees any of the GSDs...

Sorry, can't help you much here, I couldn't get cgminer to work myself. It would recognize miners if I specified hotplug option and unplugged/replugged them, but that was just too much hassle.

I see to many people having problems with cgminer.

most people that have not more than 5/6 miners go with CPUminer. BFGminer seems to be not that bad too

especially that with those you dont need any zadig driver mod

cpuminer
will someone out here catch this and add local hash rate to cpuminer before I am forced to change over to something else....there has to be an easier / better way to run and monitor our rigs or a real once and for all fix-em-all for all time bug fixes for cgminer, bfgminer and .... I hate to say it, cpuminer too Wink

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Quote from: jamieb81 on March 31, 2014, 12:55:34 PM

Quote from: suchmoon on March 31, 2014, 12:54:18 PM

Quote from: usao on March 31, 2014, 12:41:30 PM

Ratz. When I restarted, cgminer no-longer sees any of the GSDs...

Sorry, can't help you much here, I couldn't get cgminer to work myself. It would recognize miners if I specified hotplug option and unplugged/replugged them, but that was just too much hassle.

I see to many people having problems with cgminer.

most people that have not more than 5/6 miners go with CPUminer. BFGminer seems to be not that bad too

especially that with those you dont need any zadig driver mod

Ill try the hotplug option, then will give cpuminer a shot. Other than that, I will have to do the physical unplug/replug when I get home tonight.
I wish there was a remote USB power-cycle option...

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Quote from: suchmoon on March 31, 2014, 12:54:18 PM

Quote from: usao on March 31, 2014, 12:41:30 PM

Ratz. When I restarted, cgminer no-longer sees any of the GSDs...

Sorry, can't help you much here, I couldn't get cgminer to work myself. It would recognize miners if I specified hotplug option and unplugged/replugged them, but that was just too much hassle.

I see to many people having problems with cgminer.

most people that have not more than 5/6 miners go with CPUminer. BFGminer seems to be not that bad too

especially that with those you dont need any zadig driver mod

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Quote from: usao on March 31, 2014, 12:41:30 PM

Ratz. When I restarted, cgminer no-longer sees any of the GSDs...

Sorry, can't help you much here, I couldn't get cgminer to work myself. It would recognize miners if I specified hotplug option and unplugged/replugged them, but that was just too much hassle.

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Quote from: suchmoon on March 31, 2014, 12:34:41 PM

Quote from: usao on March 31, 2014, 12:29:13 PM

All, I have 3 GSD's running on a W7 box with cgminer with the gridseed mods.
For unknown reason, one of the miners is not submitting any shares.
The pool confirms hashrates similar to only 2 of the GSDs. However, cgminer sais it's working.
Ive tried rebooting PC, disconnect/reconnect USB as well as powercycle GSD, no difference.

~~Not sure I understand this correctly - you mentioned 3 miners and posted a picture with 5, all hashing away happily?~~ I should learn to not reply too quickly and allow posters to edit out their mistakes Grin

Have you tried swapping cables/ports/lowering frequency?

I did switch USB ports in the hub, but didn't try different freq.
Interesting note, when I shutdown, cgminer showd average hashrate of 1.1 MH/s over 14 hours. Seems like it's working on the client side.
Ratz. When I restarted, cgminer no-longer sees any of the GSDs...

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Quote from: usao on March 31, 2014, 12:29:13 PM

All, I have 3 GSD's running on a W7 box with cgminer with the gridseed mods.
For unknown reason, one of the miners is not submitting any shares.
The pool confirms hashrates similar to only 2 of the GSDs. However, cgminer sais it's working.
Ive tried rebooting PC, disconnect/reconnect USB as well as powercycle GSD, no difference.

~~Not sure I understand this correctly - you mentioned 3 miners and posted a picture with 5, all hashing away happily?~~ I should learn to not reply too quickly and allow posters to edit out their mistakes Grin

Have you tried swapping cables/ports/lowering frequency?

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All, I have 3 GSD's running on a W7 box with cgminer with the gridseed mods.
For unknown reason, one of the miners is not submitting any shares.
The pool confirms hashrates similar to only 2 of the GSDs. However, cgminer sais it's working.
Ive tried rebooting PC, disconnect/reconnect USB as well as powercycle GSD, no difference.

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Quote from: maranello1561 on March 30, 2014, 09:30:53 PM

Is there any way to make it hash faster than 360MH without tinkering with soldering ... what about those firmware rumors from back in early March?

You mean mid-Feb. and they still have not released it yet, just more 'secret' pictures.

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