Re: A4 Dominator - Pre-Order Group Buy - 280mh, roughly 1000w, $1800 + shipping

Has anyone asked in the Minera thread if they will be adding support for the Dominator A4?

Thanks for the heads up on Minera. I just popped into that thread and asked the question. Grin

Minera is a great program. I will pop over and ask also.. The more they see ask the better. I asked them if they would add the A2 a long while ago but no response..
UPDATE I just sent them a message.. I invited them to join this thread hopefully we will hear from them. I think this is a very good idea. Please everyone go and put in a request we will see if they can help.
They are here
https://getminera.com

Hello I'm the Minera's author. Can I know what's the problem with A4?
Then, what kind of miner software does it use?
If it can work with Cgminer or similar there isn't much problem, but if it has its own ultra-forked-wtf-you-did-miner I'm sorry I can't help much.

Hello and thanks for stopping by. I am sure others will chime in here with detailed problems. But what is happening is the miner is unstable it will start off mining at spec then it will slowly loose hashrate and in most cases crash and need a re-boot. It does not handle coin switching pools at all. That will cause a crash for sure. On litecoinpool.org it will mine but not near the hashrate it is advertised at. The company that built it has sent a update firmware but it is nothing but a monitering process that when it sees hashrate drop does a auto re-boot.
The miner uses cgminer 3.9.0
It is advertised to mine at 280Mhs and about the best we can get is 245-250mhs. And it will not mine on prohash.com where they coinswitch that seems to crash the miner all together. I am sure others will chime in that have done much more testing then I have but this is the jist of the problem.

The other thing is I do not know what type of control board this uses. It is a SD card the program runs on but the box that SD cards goes into is not a standard rasberry pi. It has 6 ribbon cable inputs that com from miner. Each miner has 2 hashing cards with 2 ribbon cables for output that need to plug into the control board that houses SD card. The idea is you can plug 3 miners into one control board.