Terrahash said that they were making contact with Steamboat to get information on the 12C daisy chain firmware problem. I am not aware if LD has been able to iron out all bugs, but the update they sent a few days ago alludes to progress on the boards. It's possible that Terrahash and Steamboat could put their heads together and share notes. TH share their info on gettings 16 chips hashing, and Steamboat sharing a fix for the I2C bug. No one is sure what specifically is going on and what time frame it will happen in. Side note, I don't trust Yifu and I think his company is straddling criminal territory. If you put in for a refund, I wouldn't fret about it. Steamboat seems to be a solid guy and he has been fulfilling refund requests as we speak.
Thanks knightlife999,
This whole thing is really irritating. It was such a nice project. Too bad it did not work out.
Yes, I have put in for a refund a few days ago. I'm sure Steamboat is swamped with refund requests.
Personally, I'd rather have had the miners. I've looked at the firmware code, and while my programming experience was a while back, it appears there is a serious problem with the control function which switches on banks. As in, that function is not there, and there isn't a way to keep track of which bank is hashing the 0 bits, and which one is hashing the 1 bits....Bkkcoins used the the same preloading routine per bank of 8 chips, but it needs some sort of supervisory routine.
My guess is that if you tried to daisy chain K16's, you would need yet another higher level function to supervise the chain also.
At least, that is what I can tell from the code. It needs a higher level control structure, which is certainly beyond my limited expertise to fix.
Sadly, I've requested a refund.
Guess the naysayers won the day. Hope they're happy.
