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legendary
Activity: 1379
Merit: 1003
nec sine labore
Hi,

I got mine stuck twice this morning, once on 50btc.com and once on p2pool.

Hashing at 0MH, only a full power-off/on restarts it.

spiccioli
legendary
Activity: 1610
Merit: 1000
Avalon is connected with WiFi
on router I see
Code:
Received Packets	Sent Packets
7489                 5195
and the number of Packets changes
(means for me that I am connected)
nevertheless sometimes I cannot connect to Luci
and cgminer does not automatically restart
only a cold reboot helps Huh
any hints?
TIA

Use cable. Rub out the antenna so you will never be able to switch to WiFi ever again Wink
legendary
Activity: 2955
Merit: 1049
Avalon is connected with WiFi
on router I see
Code:
Received Packets	Sent Packets
7489                 5195
and the number of Packets changes
(means for me that I am connected)
nevertheless sometimes I cannot connect to Luci
and cgminer does not automatically restart
only a cold reboot helps Huh
any hints?
TIA
legendary
Activity: 1890
Merit: 1003
do you use worker min difficulty 32 ?
mine is set to 64  on btcguild   at the utility tab I have 15.5 and the tab difa 4198161
What is the utility number for?

I get ranges from 1000+ to less than 15 depending on my difficulty settings.
legendary
Activity: 1764
Merit: 1002
Quote from: Sitarow

Seems that there is a problem with the controller hanging.
[b
Edit: or the usb communication to the controller. If this happens again I will open the unit up and unplug the usb and plug it back in. Unless that is a bad idea Smiley[/b]

Note Unit # 114 stalled after 92.5 hours of operation. Waited 4 hours to see if it would fix itself but it just kept restarting cgminer.
Like Unit # 445 it only started working after a powering the unit down.




So in this situation , do you think one of those devices that people keep talking about around here that depends on a ping response from the router is useless?

For now the stall effects communication to the control board. SO if we could use a script to monitor the fan speed in this case 0 and then issue some kind of string command to reset the power then it would work.

For now I suppose the best you can hope for is your pool notify you after 10 mins that your unit is not reporting. Then use your android phone to "connect" to your network via vpn and you can issue a command reset via the browser to that unit.



if one is solo mining and has these in a data center what could one do to monitor them?

would it be better to connect via a VPN or SSH?
sr. member
Activity: 388
Merit: 250
from my test with difficulty min  32   +3% more shares and lower hardware errors then with difficulty set to min 64 ( test for about 2h)
legendary
Activity: 1792
Merit: 1047
the time is between 3 and 8 s

I meant was your Avalon total up time for those submitted shares 70.5 hours or 2 Days 22 Hours 30 Minutes?

I could estimate based on known Avalon past performance at 32 difficulty.

I use that information to help see what your average per hour share acceptance is. This way we can see if higher difficulty is better on the Avalon units.

Note that having a higher difficulty will help put less stress on the pool and help you by lowering your network bandwidth usage.
legendary
Activity: 1792
Merit: 1047

Here is the performance of Unit #114 before any upgrades.




Here is the performance of Unit #445 before upgrades


Unit #445 After 1 Hour Operation with out any upgrades


Unit #445 After 8 Hour 42M minutes Operation with only Power Supply Upgrades.



Note Unit #445 performance was a little better after power supply upgrade however it seemed short lived once it was upgraded to firmware 20130419.
sr. member
Activity: 388
Merit: 250
the time is between 3 and 8 s
legendary
Activity: 1792
Merit: 1047
do you use worker min difficulty 32 ?
mine is set to 64  on btcguild   at the utility tab I have 15.5 and the tab difa 4198161
diffa is your accepted shares and credited at x1 difficulty by the pool.

How much time has past during the shares submitted?

legendary
Activity: 1792
Merit: 1047
Quote from: Sitarow

Seems that there is a problem with the controller hanging.
[b
Edit: or the usb communication to the controller. If this happens again I will open the unit up and unplug the usb and plug it back in. Unless that is a bad idea Smiley[/b]

Note Unit # 114 stalled after 92.5 hours of operation. Waited 4 hours to see if it would fix itself but it just kept restarting cgminer.
Like Unit # 445 it only started working after a powering the unit down.




So in this situation , do you think one of those devices that people keep talking about around here that depends on a ping response from the router is useless?

For now the stall effects communication to the control board. SO if we could use a script to monitor the fan speed in this case 0 and then issue some kind of string command to reset the power then it would work.

For now I suppose the best you can hope for is your pool notify you after 10 mins that your unit is not reporting. Then use your android phone to "connect" to your network via vpn and you can issue a command reset via the browser to that unit.

sr. member
Activity: 388
Merit: 250
do you use worker min difficulty 32 ?
mine is set to 64  on btcguild   at the utility tab I have 15.5 and the tab difa 4198161
legendary
Activity: 1764
Merit: 1002
Quote from: Sitarow

Seems that there is a problem with the controller hanging.
[b
Edit: or the usb communication to the controller. If this happens again I will open the unit up and unplug the usb and plug it back in. Unless that is a bad idea Smiley[/b]

Note Unit # 114 stalled after 92.5 hours of operation. Waited 4 hours to see if it would fix itself but it just kept restarting cgminer.
Like Unit # 445 it only started working after a powering the unit down.




So in this situation , do you think one of those devices that people keep talking about around here that depends on a ping response from the router is useless?
legendary
Activity: 1610
Merit: 1000
It is a good thing we have beta testers that allow folks to wait until these are "stable builds". The Firmware seems to be improving quite a bit.

@ BitSyncom

Any change the Corsair power supply can be added to the Wiki as a viable solution?
1. The FW is making about 1-1.5 GH more
2. It still needs power off/on but it is not happening so frequently compared to the old FW
3. Results:    Elapsed:3days 08h 49m 21s (I never had such uptime - max 2 days),Difficulty Accepted:4,810,991.00, Rate based on diff1 Accepted shares 71016.56 MH/s clocked at 300



Do you know what your power consumption was?

59769.72 Shares Per Hour is nice.

Unit #114 does 60416 diffA accepted shares per hour - 71795 MH/s clocked at 300
Unit #445 does 59268 diffA accepted shares per hour - 70286 MH/s clocked at 300

Nope. I have not mesured it. I am driving my avalon with stock 650W psu. However some 850W Corsair are on the way  Wink
legendary
Activity: 1792
Merit: 1047
It is a good thing we have beta testers that allow folks to wait until these are "stable builds". The Firmware seems to be improving quite a bit.

@ BitSyncom

Any change the Corsair power supply can be added to the Wiki as a viable solution?
1. The FW is making about 1-1.5 GH more
2. It still needs power off/on but it is not happening so frequently compared to the old FW
3. Results:    Elapsed:3days 08h 49m 21s (I never had such uptime - max 2 days),Difficulty Accepted:4,810,991.00, Rate based on diff1 Accepted shares 71016.56 MH/s clocked at 300



Do you know what your power consumption was?

59769.72 Shares Per Hour is nice.

Unit #114 does 60416 diffA accepted shares per hour - 71795 MH/s clocked at 300
Unit #445 does 59268 diffA accepted shares per hour - 70286 MH/s clocked at 300
legendary
Activity: 1610
Merit: 1000
2.19h days without restart latest firmware 20130419
the hardware errors are at about 8% from at about 5% up from firmware version 20130225
discarded at about 20%  nmw  824
rejected 0.8%

The HW errors are higher because Avalon just recovers from a dead loop. And they accumulate. It works better in my unit for sure Smiley
Your rejects are bit higher. I do not know where are you located but if you like you can try bitminter
sr. member
Activity: 388
Merit: 250
2 days 19h 22m without restart latest firmware 20130419
the hardware errors are at about 8% from at about 5% up from firmware version 20130225
discarded at about 20%  nmw  824
rejected 0.8%
legendary
Activity: 1610
Merit: 1000
It is a good thing we have beta testers that allow folks to wait until these are "stable builds". The Firmware seems to be improving quite a bit.

@ BitSyncom

Any change the Corsair power supply can be added to the Wiki as a viable solution?
1. The FW is making about 1-1.5 GH more
2. It still needs power off/on but it is not happening so frequently compared to the old FW
3. Results:    Elapsed:3days 08h 49m 21s (I never had such uptime - max 2 days),Difficulty Accepted:4,810,991.00, Rate based on diff1 Accepted shares 71016.56 MH/s clocked at 300

legendary
Activity: 1890
Merit: 1003
It is a good thing we have beta testers that allow folks to wait until these are "stable builds". The Firmware seems to be improving quite a bit.

@ BitSyncom

Any chance the Corsair power supply can be added to the Wiki as a viable solution?
hero member
Activity: 631
Merit: 500
I've been getting a lot more failures lately that require a hard reboot. Don't know if it's the 419 firmware or something else...
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