how to get cgminer to ignore devices

vm1990

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Quote from: -ck on October 17, 2013, 04:13:54 AM

Quote from: os2sam on October 15, 2013, 06:48:35 PM

Quote from: -ck on October 15, 2013, 06:45:13 PM

Not the best version of English?
Sigh...

A co-worker from the UK used to say we were separated by a common language. I still say he talks funny

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Sam

Yes we speak very close to UK English here. I doubt very much that's the issue.

Quote from: vm1990 on October 16, 2013, 12:07:02 PM

by no means am i putting his hard work down.. im just saying it could do with a bit of editing and simplifying for less educated miners like me

"His" is me by the way.

good point xd well done on cgminer by the way

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Ruu \o/

Quote from: os2sam on October 15, 2013, 06:48:35 PM

Quote from: -ck on October 15, 2013, 06:45:13 PM

Not the best version of English?
Sigh...

A co-worker from the UK used to say we were separated by a common language. I still say he talks funny

.
Sam

Yes we speak very close to UK English here. I doubt very much that's the issue.

Quote from: vm1990 on October 16, 2013, 12:07:02 PM

by no means am i putting his hard work down.. im just saying it could do with a bit of editing and simplifying for less educated miners like me

"His" is me by the way.

vm1990

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Quote from: -ck on October 15, 2013, 06:45:13 PM

Quote from: vm1990 on October 15, 2013, 08:13:54 AM

ok thanks for the help

i would read the readme file but i dint understand about 90% of it as its not the best layout in the world and not the best version of English...
after reading the ASICS part i decided its simpler and easier to ask

Feel free to rewrite it. At least it IS all documented. If it were 3 lines of useless crap you'd understand it but be able to do nothing. Mining is non-trivial and I wish people wouldn't complain about too much documentation.

Not the best version of English?

Sigh...

by no means am i putting his hard work down.. im just saying it could do with a bit of editing and simplifying for less educated miners like me

os2sam

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Think for yourself

Quote from: -ck on October 15, 2013, 06:45:13 PM

Not the best version of English?
Sigh...

A co-worker from the UK used to say we were separated by a common language. I still say he talks funny

.
Sam

-ck

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Ruu \o/

Quote from: vm1990 on October 15, 2013, 08:13:54 AM

ok thanks for the help

i would read the readme file but i dint understand about 90% of it as its not the best layout in the world and not the best version of English...
after reading the ASICS part i decided its simpler and easier to ask

Feel free to rewrite it. At least it IS all documented. If it were 3 lines of useless crap you'd understand it but be able to do nothing. Mining is non-trivial and I wish people wouldn't complain about too much documentation.

Not the best version of English?

Sigh...

vm1990

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ok thanks for the help

i would read the readme file but i dint understand about 90% of it as its not the best layout in the world and not the best version of English...
after reading the ASICS part i decided its simpler and easier to ask

os2sam

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Think for yourself

Quote from: vm1990 on October 15, 2013, 06:30:29 AM

the idea was to have 1 BFL miner and 5 block erupters working on 1 pool and 1 BFL on another pool...

In one CGMiner instance use
"--usb ICA:5, BAS:1" This will use the 5 BE's and one BFL ASIC. Note the ICA:5 isn't really needed as CGMiner would use them with no command line options.

In the other instance use
"--usb ICA:0, BAS:1" This tells CGMiner to use NO BE's and 1 BFL ASIC.

This is why I asked what devices you wanted to disable. The other post's suggestions would work great for GPU's, but not so well for ASIC's.

These usb options are explained in the Readme under Advanced USB Options.
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well id didnt quite work out the way i wanted but its close enough

the idea was to have 1 BFL miner and 5 block erupters working on 1 pool and 1 BFL on another pool...
in the end i just ended up sticking the 1 BFL miner in a Virtual Machine and did it that way

anyhow got it all in the end saves me a ton of power now its all on a eco friendly ITX CPU running at a massive 50w compared to 2 computers using 300w XD

vm1990

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awesome thanks guys Cheesy

something so simple took me so long to work out Embarrassed

os2sam

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Think for yourself

Quote from: vm1990 on October 14, 2013, 02:55:54 PM

simple but i couldn't figure it our Embarrassed

v3.4.2 by the way

also is it possible to use Block erupters and BFL hardware in the same window?

What devices do you want to ignore?

Yes you can use Erupters and BFL's in the same instance. Just use no command line options besides your pool information and it will use all devices that are available.

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type "cgminer -n". Look at the detected devices, and their #'s. Then specify the devices you want, e.g. "cgminer -d 0,1,3"

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simple but i couldn't figure it our Embarrassed

v3.4.2 by the way

also is it possible to use Block erupters and BFL hardware in the same window?

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