[GUIDE] GridSeed GC3355 5 Chip Setup/power/windows/linux/rpi by UnicornHasher - page 7.

Monzsta

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I can get cpuminer working and mining scrypt by leaving the st32 driver intact and using the assigned port in the startup bat. I can get cgminer running and mining SHA by using zadig and replacing the driver with a win32 driver. but I can't get them working at the same time, as you would dual mining. Cpuminer can't find the gridseed if the win32 driver is installed. Cgminer can't communicate with the gridseed if the ST32 driver is installed. Being as I want to dual mine, what do I do? I've got them both working, just not together.

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Quote from: suchmoon on May 20, 2014, 03:08:11 PM

Quote from: favelle75 on May 20, 2014, 12:38:17 PM

Hey suchmoon, one more question: does it matter in the PCI-e cable what order the black (neutral) and yellows (12V) are paired up?

No, it doesn't.

Sweet, thanks.

suchmoon

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Quote from: favelle75 on May 20, 2014, 12:38:17 PM

Hey suchmoon, one more question: does it matter in the PCI-e cable what order the black (neutral) and yellows (12V) are paired up?

No, it doesn't.

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Quote from: suchmoon on May 17, 2014, 08:44:16 PM

Quote from: favelle75 on May 17, 2014, 08:29:25 PM

Quote from: suchmoon on May 17, 2014, 05:23:35 PM

Quote from: favelle75 on May 17, 2014, 01:47:59 AM

Power supply question. When I tap into a 12v (yellow), in a typical power supply, does it matter if I spread it around to say PCI, SATA, CPU, etc etc cables? If I wanted to run 2 Gridseed Blades off of a 500W power supply, can I just tap into the molex cables and be done with it, or do I specifically have to use the PCI-e cables?

Assuming all wires are 18 AWG - which they typically are - you should not hang more than 6A on one yellow wire. Which is roughly one half of one blade. PCI-E cables have three 12V wires each, and your 500W supply probably has two of these, so run one blade on each PCI-E cable and you'll be fine.

Thanks suchmoon, that helps. One more question, if a PS has multiple rails, and most over 500W do, how do you know which 12V yellows are on which rail so you don't overload it?

I wouldn't say most have multiple rails, but the ones that I've seen had it laid out on the label or in the manual. Normally on a multirail PSU you would have each pair of PCI-E connectors on a separate rail, so if you put 1-1.5 blades on each connector you would distribute the load just fine. You could probably figure it out with a multimeter too, I just never needed to.

Hey suchmoon, one more question: does it matter in the PCI-e cable what order the black (neutral) and yellows (12V) are paired up?

CartmanSPC

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This is what I use on Ubuntu server:

Code:

cd ~
sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libudev-dev libjansson-dev 
sudo git clone git://github.com/siklon/cpuminer-gc3355.git
cd cpuminer-gc3355
sudo ./autogen.sh
sudo ./configure CFLAGS="-O2"
sudo make

wolf_miner

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Hi pjcltd, thanks for your post, the problem is that on the distro I have to use some packages have different name or aren't available.

Quote

openssh.tcz
git.tcz
nano.tcz
libtool-dev.tcz
curl-dev.tcz
ncurses-dev.tcz
libusb-dev.tcz
udev-extra.tcz
autoconf.tcz
automake.tcz
m4.tcz
compiletc.tcz
ntpclient.tcz
screen.tcz

with this packages usually I am able to compile CGMINER

W_M

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Quote from: sandor111 on May 19, 2014, 09:25:10 AM

Quote from: wolf_miner on May 19, 2014, 09:13:45 AM

Hi sandor111, i try to compile cpuminer-gc3355, but I have an error can you help me?

Quote

tc@box:/home/cpuminer-gc3355$ sudo ./autogen.sh
configure.ac:13: installing './compile'
configure.ac:4: installing './config.guess'
configure.ac:4: installing './config.sub'
configure.ac:6: installing './install-sh'
configure.ac:6: installing './missing'
Makefile.am: installing './INSTALL'
Makefile.am: installing './depcomp'
configure.ac:114: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR
If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
See the Autoconf documentation.
tc@box:/home/cpuminer-gc3355$

Thanks in advance W_M

Make sure the necessary packages are installed.

Hi
try this

make sure you are sudo su to root
cd
apt-get install build-essential libtool libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libudev-dev autoconf automake screen
wget http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.34.0.tar.bz2
wget http://www.digip.org/jansson/releases/jansson-2.5.tar.bz2
tar -xvf curl-7.34.0.tar.bz2
cd curl-7.34.0
./configure
make
make install
cd ..

tar -xvf jansson-2.5.tar.bz2
cd jansson-2.5
./configure
make
make install
wget http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/ubuntu/pool/main/a/automake1.11/automake1.11_1.11.6-2_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i automake1.11_1.11.6-2_all.deb
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libjansson.* /usr/lib/
cd ..

=============This is the one for Gridseed blades ==============
git clone https://github.com/jmordica/cgminer-gc3355
=================================================

if you have a problem with git then use 'apt-get install git'
cd cgminer-gc3355/
./configure --enable-scrypt --enable-gridseed
make

Thats it your done
./cgminer --gridseed-options=baud=115200,freq=800,chips=40,modules=1,usefifo=0,btc=0 --hotplug=0

this works on Ubuntu 13.10 and the new version 14 Ubuntu

Hope this helps you out.

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Quote from: wolf_miner on May 19, 2014, 09:13:45 AM

Hi sandor111, i try to compile cpuminer-gc3355, but I have an error can you help me?

Quote

tc@box:/home/cpuminer-gc3355$ sudo ./autogen.sh
configure.ac:13: installing './compile'
configure.ac:4: installing './config.guess'
configure.ac:4: installing './config.sub'
configure.ac:6: installing './install-sh'
configure.ac:6: installing './missing'
Makefile.am: installing './INSTALL'
Makefile.am: installing './depcomp'
configure.ac:114: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR
If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
See the Autoconf documentation.
tc@box:/home/cpuminer-gc3355$

Thanks in advance W_M

Make sure the necessary packages are installed.

wolf_miner

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Hi sandor111, i try to compile cpuminer-gc3355, but I have an error can you help me?

Quote

tc@box:/home/cpuminer-gc3355$ sudo ./autogen.sh
configure.ac:13: installing './compile'
configure.ac:4: installing './config.guess'
configure.ac:4: installing './config.sub'
configure.ac:6: installing './install-sh'
configure.ac:6: installing './missing'
Makefile.am: installing './INSTALL'
Makefile.am: installing './depcomp'
configure.ac:114: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR
If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
See the Autoconf documentation.
tc@box:/home/cpuminer-gc3355$

Thanks in advance W_M

wolfey2014

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Quote from: zugvogel21 on May 19, 2014, 01:31:38 AM

Hello,

i have a problem with my blades.
The miner i am using is cgminer 3.7.2 gridseed. I have 7 blades on my laptop.
Installed Windows usb drivers. When i run cgminer it only detects one gsd. not more. i have first to start cg and then plug in the blades after running it. Then it detects all blades.
Also cg shuts down one time a day. This happens most times in the night. Everytime a differnt time.
Can please somebody help me ?

Search for these two words... FIFO BUFFERS
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sandor111

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Quote from: wolf_miner on May 19, 2014, 08:52:00 AM

Hi, I have a linux thin client (Tiny core Linux) that I want to use for driving 3 Gridseed Mini, please can you suggest me which program i have to use / compile for mining?

Thanks in advance W_M

You can use cpuminer-gc3355: https://github.com/siklon/cpuminer-gc3355

wolf_miner

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Hi, I have a linux thin client (Tiny core Linux) that I want to use for driving 3 Gridseed Mini, please can you suggest me which program i have to use / compile for mining?

Thanks in advance W_M

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Quote from: sandor111 on May 19, 2014, 05:30:06 AM

Quote from: zugvogel21 on May 19, 2014, 01:31:38 AM

Hello,

i have a problem with my blades.
The miner i am using is cgminer 3.7.2 gridseed. I have 7 blades on my laptop.
Installed Windows usb drivers. When i run cgminer it only detects one gsd. not more. i have first to start cg and then plug in the blades after running it. Then it detects all blades.
Also cg shuts down one time a day. This happens most times in the night. Everytime a differnt time.
Can please somebody help me ?

It's better to use cpuminer-gc3355, download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ttqa9p851siz8oi/minerd-gc3355.zip
Documentation is here: https://github.com/siklon/cpuminer-gc3355

Really ? I just started it after made the config with my pools. It detects all my gsd, also gets new jobs but they get no hashrate. Also in my pool there is shown zero hashrate. Is the config made for the blades ? With bfgminer i had the same problem with shutting down. Did you have same problems ?

sandor111

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Quote from: zugvogel21 on May 19, 2014, 01:31:38 AM

Hello,

i have a problem with my blades.
The miner i am using is cgminer 3.7.2 gridseed. I have 7 blades on my laptop.
Installed Windows usb drivers. When i run cgminer it only detects one gsd. not more. i have first to start cg and then plug in the blades after running it. Then it detects all blades.
Also cg shuts down one time a day. This happens most times in the night. Everytime a differnt time.
Can please somebody help me ?

It's better to use cpuminer-gc3355, download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ttqa9p851siz8oi/minerd-gc3355.zip
Documentation is here: https://github.com/siklon/cpuminer-gc3355

zugvogel21

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Also tried differnt PC. Same Problem.

zugvogel21

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Hello,

i have a problem with my blades.
The miner i am using is cgminer 3.7.2 gridseed. I have 7 blades on my laptop.
Installed Windows usb drivers. When i run cgminer it only detects one gsd. not more. i have first to start cg and then plug in the blades after running it. Then it detects all blades.
Also cg shuts down one time a day. This happens most times in the night. Everytime a differnt time.
Can please somebody help me ?

favelle75

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Quote from: suchmoon on May 17, 2014, 08:44:16 PM

Quote from: favelle75 on May 17, 2014, 08:29:25 PM

Quote from: suchmoon on May 17, 2014, 05:23:35 PM

Quote from: favelle75 on May 17, 2014, 01:47:59 AM

Power supply question. When I tap into a 12v (yellow), in a typical power supply, does it matter if I spread it around to say PCI, SATA, CPU, etc etc cables? If I wanted to run 2 Gridseed Blades off of a 500W power supply, can I just tap into the molex cables and be done with it, or do I specifically have to use the PCI-e cables?

Assuming all wires are 18 AWG - which they typically are - you should not hang more than 6A on one yellow wire. Which is roughly one half of one blade. PCI-E cables have three 12V wires each, and your 500W supply probably has two of these, so run one blade on each PCI-E cable and you'll be fine.

Thanks suchmoon, that helps. One more question, if a PS has multiple rails, and most over 500W do, how do you know which 12V yellows are on which rail so you don't overload it?

I wouldn't say most have multiple rails, but the ones that I've seen had it laid out on the label or in the manual. Normally on a multirail PSU you would have each pair of PCI-E connectors on a separate rail, so if you put 1-1.5 blades on each connector you would distribute the load just fine. You could probably figure it out with a multimeter too, I just never needed to.

Thanks man, much appreciated.

wolfey2014

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Quote from: happydaze on May 18, 2014, 06:29:38 AM

Quote from: gtraah on May 17, 2014, 10:40:05 PM

Hi guys,

how do you do you failover system in cpuminer?

Sandors cpuminer has failover if you use a .json config file.

No, failover in cpuminer works like this....

minerdoc --freq=1180 --gc3355=\\.\com2,\\.\com4 --url=stratum+tcp://mineit.com:3000 --userpass=xxxx.xxxx:xxxx --url=stratum+tcp://stratum.doofusspool.com:3004 --userpass=xxxx.xxxx:xxxx

It runs in a constant loop by default...that's how it works, I believe.
When the blue site fails, it starts up the green site and keeps watching for the blue site to come back online, then switches back to it....
I think you can have as many fail-over sites in the line as you want.
Easy, eh?

Wolfey

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Quote from: gtraah on May 17, 2014, 10:40:05 PM

Hi guys,

how do you do you failover system in cpuminer?

Sandors cpuminer has failover if you use a .json config file.

favelle75

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Quote from: gtraah on May 17, 2014, 10:45:46 PM

I think I found my answer thanks to wolfey in PM Mode

Sweet, thanks for sharing so that we can all learn as well.

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