Topic: [GUIDE] GridSeed 5-Chip USB, Blade & Black Miner Support/Tuning - page 61. (Read 308807 times)

Step by Step Raspberry SCRIPTA Installation:

• 1 - SD Formatter (link) clean up your SD Card. At least a 4GB SD.
• 2 - Download the SCRIPTA Image (link)
• 3 - Win 32 Disk Imager (link) and write the scripta image on the SD Card.
• 4 - Put the SD Card into your Raspberry.
• 5 - SSH access on port 7722, user: root / psw: scripta
• 6 - Use WinSCP (link) to move over the latest rasp cgminer for gridseed (https://db.tt/UygLkqwd) or Use PuTTY (link)

• 7 - Go to the location where you copied over your cgminer and do "chmod 777 cgminer"
• 8 - Go to the SCRIPTA Web GUI, under Miner hit Miner commands, STOP
• 9 - Go to the location where you copied over your cgminer and run it from there using these commands:

Stability-Fix: Add the following code at the end of the first line (on the same line as the other text, DO NOT add new line!)

Orginal Sources from: https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=9908.0

How to get Scripta working as it was intended

Follow the instructions by Darkfriend77 below but when you get to step 6, go to directory opt/minepeon/bin and remove the original cgminer there (rm cgminer). Now copy the new cgminer into this folder to replace the original and chmod it as below.
Now go to directory opt/minepeon/startup and edit the file miner-start.sh with nano.
Change the line -
to
Lastly apply the stability fix.
Now you can close ssh and restart your pi and it should automatically fire up your gridseeds and start mining.

Ok, I will post this here, since I think people could benefit from it. I'll have to give most of the credits to Girhes, since he told me about the failsafe mode of openWRT, and assisted me while trying to gain access (he did not have a controller himself yet).

Please note that this is at YOUR OWN RISK, you could brick your device when you have root access to the controller. Please do NOT install any programs when you have root access, unless you really know what you are doing. There is almost no room left on the device, so installing a program could brick your device.

1 - Start the controller in failsafe mode:


The versioin of your device is stated on the back of the device, underneath the barcode.

2 - Telnet into the device:

On windows go to start, type 'cmd' in the search bar, and start 'cmd.exe'. In the command window you get afterwards, type 'telnet 192.168.1.1'. Make sure you use the correct IP, my device used 192.168.1.1 in failsafe mode.

There is no user/pass required in failsafe mode.

3 - Switch to the live partition:

Type 'mount_root'

Warning! You are in the live partition now, with root permissions. You could seriously fuck thing up now!

4 - Change the root password:

Type 'passwd', and enter the password you would like (twice).

5 - Enable SSH:

Type 'vim /etc/config/dropbear', this will open the SSH config file in the vim text editor. You need to change "option enable" to "on".

You can start editing the file by hitting the 'i' key. You can now insert/delete characters. After you are finished editing hit the 'esc' key to stop editing. Now hit the ':' key, and type 'wq'. This will write the file, and quit the editor. If you made mistakes while editing, and just want to quit (without writing the file), type 'q' instead of 'wq'.

6 - Reboot the device:

Just unplug the usb power, and plug it in again.

7 - Have fun!

You can now SSH into the device while it is running in normal mode. (user: root, password whatever you entered in step 4). Just be carefull not to mess things up. If you are not at least a little familiar with linux, please be very carefull.

Hi Scrypt miners,

I was lucky enough to get one of the first Scrypt ASICs produced by Chinese GridSeed during my stay in South Korea last month. Cheers to Dis Btopia of xbitcoinx.com! I just hooked up one unit containing 5 chips to my Ubuntu box via USB port and here is what I did to get it running. Mind you, these instructions are for mining Scrypt, not SHA256 or dual mode, which the ASIC can also do. Most of the information I pieced together from this post in Chinese: http://cybtc.com/article-468-1.html

Download GridSeed's modified cpuminer and unpack zip file:

..or download via git:

Install automake:

You might need to install other compiling tools. I didn't need to, because I compiled other things before.

Compile:

Connect and power up ASIC.

Find correct USB device:

..or watch syslog while plugging in ASIC:

Start mining (replace "ttyUSB0" with device found above and add your pool data):

You should now see lots of output with yellow "LTC" lines. If you see red lines, that's bad. Anyway, post here if you run into troubles.

I am not quite sure what the green and red LEDs are about. As far as I can tell there is no English documentation about that anywhere. I assume green (which is on as soon as power and USB are connected) indicates a certain ready state and red (which flashes sometimes) means hardware errors.

I am getting a lot of "Invalid nonce" errors in the cpuminer output along with red LED flashing. Probably because by mistake I got a 12V/0.5A power supply instead of 12V/5A and chips run low on power. So I can't tell you much about hash rates etc. right now. I'll get another power supply next week, so stay tuned.

I did the port above, happy someone built a windows binary as I only run Linux myself.

Had the same problem with my GS5's.
Adjust your comm port FIFO buffer settings.
First try setting Transmit buffer down to 14 - that might do it.
If it doesn't completely handle it,
reset Receive buffer to 8 also.
Then you should be good to go.
After you adjust the FIFO's, disable and enable the port so the settings will take.
Works great for me on my Win 7 laptop via 13 port hub to 6 GS5's.
Good luck!
Wolfey2014

That's about what I get, but im worried about the HW errors. I do get a lot of them, about 1-2K over 24 hours at that speed.
When I go down to 800, I only get about 10-20 in a 24 hour period.
Do the HW errors cause any permanent or cumulative damage to the pod?