**US** BitFury Setup Guide - page 17.

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Quote from: zurg on September 20, 2013, 08:13:48 AM

Ok, I think my SD card is messed up now.
I reloaded the image and booted Pi up, a bunch of errors etc.

Now it's asking me for root password for maintenance
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vd7trmfz1kc4h7y/2013-09-20%2008.12.39.jpg

Did you try the password ... root ?

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Quote from: -Redacted- on September 20, 2013, 08:16:40 AM

Did you reformat the card before writing the image to it?

Ugh, no, I assumed that writing an image would take care of that.
Retrying...

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Did you reformat the card before writing the image to it?

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Ok, I think my SD card is messed up now.
I reloaded the image and booted Pi up, a bunch of errors etc.

Now it's asking me for root password for maintenance
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vd7trmfz1kc4h7y/2013-09-20%2008.12.39.jpg

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Get an HDMI to DVI connector/adapter and you can use nearly any modern monitor. Get a additional DVI to VGA connector and you can use any monitor - they usually bundle this last one with graphics cards....

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Quote from: BenTuras on September 20, 2013, 07:45:27 AM

Quote from: zurg on September 20, 2013, 07:18:48 AM

Well, rebooted my Pi today and

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rk9v8hcxwvvp3rc/2013-09-20%2007.16.34.jpg

Does that mean reload the SD card?

Whats the proper way to reload the card?

Yes, your sd card has read errors. You might even want to get a new sd card.
Which image to use depends on your M-board: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/us-bitfury-setup-guide-288109
How to write the image to your sd card depends on your OS: http://www.embeddedarm.com/support/faqs.php?item=10

Thanks.
Ugh, this is just great, lol
Good thing I downloaded the image a few days ago.
Bad thing... I didn't bring my laptop today to have the fun switching IP range from 192.168.1.x to 192.168.254.x
my HDMI cable is like 1ft, lol but at least I have an HDMI monitor here at work.
Microcenter doesn't open until 10am (never understood that)
I got no Linux machines at work. Sad

, although I did find Win32DiskImager and reflashing the image as I type.

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Quote from: zurg on September 20, 2013, 07:18:48 AM

Well, rebooted my Pi today and

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rk9v8hcxwvvp3rc/2013-09-20%2007.16.34.jpg

Does that mean reload the SD card?

Whats the proper way to reload the card?

Yes, your sd card has read errors. You might even want to get a new sd card.
Which image to use depends on your M-board: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/us-bitfury-setup-guide-288109
How to write the image to your sd card depends on your OS: http://www.embeddedarm.com/support/faqs.php?item=10

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Well, rebooted my Pi today and

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rk9v8hcxwvvp3rc/2013-09-20%2007.16.34.jpg

Does that mean reload the SD card?

Whats the proper way to reload the card?

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Quote from: gmannn on September 19, 2013, 12:49:50 PM

Has anyone mined via wireless instead of ethernet cable? How difficult would it be to set up?

The rPI has a very old ARM11 cpu which is being taxed already by the stratum proxy process. It would be best to delegate wifi using an external device.

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Quote from: gmannn on September 19, 2013, 12:49:50 PM

Has anyone mined via wireless instead of ethernet cable? How difficult would it be to set up?

Both of my rigs are being fed via a 5 port switch attached to a TP-Link WR700N. ~$30 from Newegg. Run it in 'client' mode and it acts as a wifi bridge.

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Quote from: gmannn on September 19, 2013, 12:49:50 PM

Has anyone mined via wireless instead of ethernet cable? How difficult would it be to set up?

I have some dlink adapters. I'd really like to be able to have the wifi option too.

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Has anyone mined via wireless instead of ethernet cable? How difficult would it be to set up?

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Thank you for that link to the rpi img file.
Now i just need to wait a few more hours for it to download over my "high-speed" internet connection...

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the biggest problem I saw with autotune was that when a chip was generating MISO errors the errors propagated to all of the other chips on the m-board. Once I located that single chip and turned it off then auto tune worked great. All of my boards are hashing at or above 25gh/s.

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Dave has made download copies available of the images. See near the bottom of the OP. You may end up needing to reformat the SD card before you can successfully write the image.

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rPI Images
V1: https://www.dropbox.com/s/poet3r86jf7n6v4/rPi_V1.img

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Hi -Redacted-,

By restart i meant i powered the units off, left them off for a while, then powered them back on again.
I've just discovered that the red led means the rpi is getting power, but no green light means the sd card is unreadable.

I tried to back up the card tonight with the instructions you gave back in post #23, but win32diskimager failed with an error after 1% of the card had been read. I believe if i had done this when i received the kit, i wouldn't be on here now asking for help!

Can someone upload the sd card image for me, the one that shipped with the kit? Thank you.

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I don't think the RPi crashes. I think there seriously is something wrong with the chips or the way the chips communicate to one another. Sometimes the hashrate of all chips drop to 0.000. Other times they are really really low... and other times, they work fine. It's quite unpredictable.

EDIT:
Ok, so my hashrates dropped big time again. Checked stat.log and noticed that autotune must have turned off my I flag for all chips. I'm going to try disabling autotune for all chips this time.

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Power off the PSU, then back on - sounds like something crashed on the RPi . The lack of SSH connectivity and no activity on the Ethernet points that way...

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I'd like to ask for your help with a problem i am having with my bitfury full kit.

I have worker1 set for the 16h board unit; worker2 set for the 2h board unit.
Everything's been working great (with the occasional restart) since day one.

A few hours ago the hash rate of worker2 started decreasing from 45 down to 8. restart fixed it for a while before the hash rate started dropping to 0 again. After the second or third restart, the unit now doesn't respond at all (putty/browser), there's no activity on the ethernet link, only the red led on the rpi is lit.

A few minutes ago, the exact same thing happened to worker1!

Has anyone else had this issue? If so, what's the cause and what can i do to fix it?

Thank you.

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You could always modify that cron job to run sudo /opt/bitfury/start-miner.sh once every couple of hours instead, or in addition. That would kill the currently running miner process and restart it.

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