Hi all,
I've just acquired some gridblades (40 seeds on each blade) along with a raspberry pi, and I'm looking at the best software to mine with them.
Here are my requirements:
-I'd like to have one single software to handle them, in one single view,
-it has to have the remote API (to be able to have them on leaserig.net),
-it has to be able to mine on any kind of pool,
-it has to have a good overall performance,
-possibly be able to individually tune each blade's characteristics (autotune is even better).
So far I've found versions of cgminer but each of them has problems:
-either it is limited to 5 chips, so it doesn't work for a 40 chips blade,
-either p2pool mining is broken,
-another one has autotuning but other features broken,
etc.
The best I've found on github is a version from jmordica, that can be tweaked (the latest has problems with p2pool mining, but a few commits back it's fine) to work pretty good.
But now with this version, I get now and again (sometimes after 10 minutes, sometimes 2 hours) the following error on random blades:
GSD 1 GetResults usb read err:(-1) LIBUSB_ERROR_IO
No response from 1
GSD 1 failure, disabling!
And after that, the blade is OFF and stops mining.
I've tweaked it a little bit so that it will restart the blade rather than switching it off, but I'm concerned that if the blade has a real problem (fan, overheat, etc.) it might not be a good move. So far it has been stable like this. Although I do have quite a lot of HW errors.
However, I'm looking for other (better) alternatives, I've seen bfgminer (and that it has autotuning), but I'm not quite sure what the best version is, there are so many out there and probably very few with 40 chips support! I've also heard that sgminer would support them, but I couldn't find any version that does so far.
Anyone have luck with these?
An extra question is: does anyone know if there is there any temperature sensor in these blades? If not, I have some USB temp sensors that I could use, but cgminer doesn't like them (probably wants to mine on them too!
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Thanks!
JY.