Post
Topic
Board Hardware
Re: [ANN] Bi•Fury | 5+ GH/s USB Miner [FASTEST USB MINER IN THE WORLD][IN STOCK!]
by
mvdgeijn
on 10/12/2013, 09:20:01 UTC
Hi,

I've tried Win7 (64 bits) and Ubuntu server 13.10, both with cgminer 3.8.4 and USB2 and USB3 ports, but the BiFury wont start mining. I even tried several pools. Also tried the different firmwares posted here the last couple of days, but no luck. Does anybody know what I'm doing wrong here?

 cgminer version 3.8.4 - Started: [2013-12-10 10:16:18]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 ALL (5s):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s | A:0  R:0  HW:0  WU:0.0/m
 ST: 2  SS: 0  NB: 1  LW: 58  GF: 0  RF: 0
 Connected to api-stratum.bitcoin.cz diff 3 with stratum as user **************
 Block: 41ab6ef5...  Diff:707M  Started: [10:16:18]  Best share: 0
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Pool management Settings Display options Quit
 BXF 0:   0.0C         |  0.000/ 0.000h/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 WU:0.0/m
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 [2013-12-10 10:16:13] Started cgminer 3.8.4
 [2013-12-10 10:16:15] BXF 0: Found at 1:1-i1
 [2013-12-10 10:16:15] BXF 0: Version 1.3 rev 1 chips 2
 [2013-12-10 10:16:15] BXF 0: Successfully initialised 1:1-i1
 [2013-12-10 10:16:16] Probing for an alive pool
 [2013-12-10 10:16:16] Testing pool http://mining.bitcoin.cz
 [2013-12-10 10:16:16] JSON decode failed(1): '[' or '{' expected near '<'
 [2013-12-10 10:16:17] JSON decode failed(1): '[' or '{' expected near '<'
 [2013-12-10 10:16:17] Testing pool 0 stratum stratum+tcp://api-stratum.bitcoin.
cz:3333
 [2013-12-10 10:16:17] Switching pool 0 http://mining.bitcoin.cz to stratum+tcp:
//api-stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333
 [2013-12-10 10:16:17] JSON-RPC decode failed: (unknown reason)
 [2013-12-10 10:16:17] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 3
 [2013-12-10 10:16:17] Stratum authorisation success for pool 0
 [2013-12-10 10:16:17] Pool 0 http://mining.bitcoin.cz alive
 [2013-12-10 10:16:18] Work update message received
 [2013-12-10 10:16:18] Network diff set to 707M
 [2013-12-10 10:16:18] New block: 00000000000000041ab6ef55a65fb184f0aaf16ca388d3
20465c01e9fe783e9d... diff 707M
 [2013-12-10 10:16:18] BXF0   0.0C         | (5s):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s | A:0 R:0
 HW:0 WU:0.0/m
 [2013-12-10 10:16:24] BXF0   0.0C         | (5s):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s | A:0 R:0
 HW:0 WU:0.0/m
 [2013-12-10 10:16:24] ALL (5s):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s | A:0  R:0  HW:0  WU:0.0/m
 [2013-12-10 10:16:29] BXF0   0.0C         | (5s):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s | A:0 R:0
 HW:0 WU:0.0/m
 [2013-12-10 10:16:29] ALL (5s):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s | A:0  R:0  HW:0  WU:0.0/m
 [2013-12-10 10:16:30] Work update message received
 [2013-12-10 10:16:34] BXF0   0.0C         | (5s):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s | A:0 R:0
 HW:0 WU:0.0/m
 [2013-12-10 10:16:34] ALL (5s):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s | A:0  R:0  HW:0  WU:0.0/m
 [2013-12-10 10:16:39] BXF0   0.0C         | (5s):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s | A:0 R:0
 HW:0 WU:0.0/m
 [2013-12-10 10:16:39] ALL (5s):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s | A:0  R:0  HW:0  WU:0.0/m
 [2013-12-10 10:16:45] BXF0   0.0C         | (5s):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s | A:0 R:0
 HW:0 WU:0.0/m
 [2013-12-10 10:16:45] ALL (5s):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s | A:0  R:0  HW:0  WU:0.0/m


When closing cgminer the following statistics are shown:

Summary of runtime statistics:

 [2013-12-10 10:15:11] Started at [2013-12-10 10:06:50]
 [2013-12-10 10:15:11] Pool: http://mining.bitcoin.cz
 [2013-12-10 10:15:11] Runtime: 0 hrs : 8 mins : 20 secs
 [2013-12-10 10:15:11] Average hashrate: 0.0 Kilohash/s
 [2013-12-10 10:15:11] Solved blocks: 0
 [2013-12-10 10:15:11] Best share difficulty: 0
 [2013-12-10 10:15:11] Share submissions: 0
 [2013-12-10 10:15:11] Accepted shares: 0
 [2013-12-10 10:15:11] Rejected shares: 0
 [2013-12-10 10:15:11] Accepted difficulty shares: 0
 [2013-12-10 10:15:11] Rejected difficulty shares: 0
 [2013-12-10 10:15:11] Hardware errors: 0
 [2013-12-10 10:15:11] Utility (accepted shares / min): 0.00/min

 [2013-12-10 10:15:11] Work Utility (diff1 shares solved / min): 0.00/min

 [2013-12-10 10:15:11] Stale submissions discarded due to new blocks: 0

 [2013-12-10 10:15:11] Unable to get work from server occasions: 0

 [2013-12-10 10:15:11] Work items generated locally: 840
 [2013-12-10 10:15:11] Submitting work remotely delay occasions: 0

 [2013-12-10 10:15:11] New blocks detected on network: 3

 [2013-12-10 10:15:11] Summary of per device statistics:

 [2013-12-10 10:15:11] BXF0                | (5s):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s | A:0 R:0
 HW:0 WU:0.0/m
 [2013-12-10 10:15:11]

=== Some additional output with the -D option ===

 [2013-12-10 14:27:17] Got work from get queue to get work for thread 0
 [2013-12-10 14:27:17] BXF 0: Sending work 000000023248d69aa215b3bfb5d203c5ac03abd3a809cc113b27826500000001000000001aa670e f6b5c4eaa4e5a6991623cc7049cd7270a200ca9aa22d63bfb818219ef52a716a119061242 2

 [2013-12-10 14:27:17] Popping work from get queue to get work
 [2013-12-10 14:27:17] Generated getwork work
 [2013-12-10 14:27:17] Pushing work from pool 0 to hash queue
 [2013-12-10 14:27:17] Selecting pool 0 for work
 [2013-12-10 14:27:17] Got work from get queue to get work for thread 0
 [2013-12-10 14:27:17] DBG: sending http://pit.deepbit.net:8332 get RPC call: {"method": "getwork", "params": [], "id":0}

 [2013-12-10 14:27:17] BXF 0: Sending work 000000023248d69aa215b3bfb5d203c5ac03abd3a809cc113b27826500000001000000005a7c1a0 cb38f9914a30fa6a137852c0eaef35e182182b99d72112741edca900952a716a219061242 3

 [2013-12-10 14:27:18] Generated getwork work
 [2013-12-10 14:27:18] Pushing work from pool 0 to hash queue
 [2013-12-10 14:27:18] Selecting pool 0 for work
 [2013-12-10 14:27:18] Got work from get queue to get work for thread 0
 [2013-12-10 14:27:18] DBG: sending http://pit.deepbit.net:8332 get RPC call: {"method": "getwork", "params": [], "id":0}

 [2013-12-10 14:27:18] BXF 0: Sending work 000000023248d69aa215b3bfb5d203c5ac03abd3a809cc113b2782650000000100000000f5e20bf 9c1c9f2010d4d07660e51641214c3f8aa64d504f106beb3fd2ee72fad52a716a219061242 4

 [2013-12-10 14:27:18] Popping work from get queue to get work
 [2013-12-10 14:27:18] USB: BXF0 read1 buffering 4 extra bytes
 [2013-12-10 14:27:18] BXF 0: Received b
 [2013-12-10 14:27:18] BXF 0: Unrecognised string b
 [2013-12-10 14:27:18] BXF 0: Received r 0

 [2013-12-10 14:27:18] BXF 0: Unrecognised string r 0

 [2013-12-10 14:27:18] BXF 0: Received hwerror 1

 [2013-12-10 14:27:18] BXF 0: Unrecognised string hwerror 1

 [2013-12-10 14:27:18] BXF 0: Received hwerror 0

 [2013-12-10 14:27:18] BXF 0: Unrecognised string hwerror 0

 [2013-12-10 14:27:18] BXF 0: Received hwerror 1

 [2013-12-10 14:27:18] BXF 0: Unrecognised string hwerror 1

 [2013-12-10 14:27:18] BXF 0: Received hwerror 0

 [2013-12-10 14:27:18] BXF 0: Unrecognised string hwerror 0

 [2013-12-10 14:27:18] BXF 0: Received hwerror 1

 [2013-12-10 14:27:18] BXF 0: Unrecognised string hwerror 1

 [2013-12-10 14:27:18] Generated getwork work
 [2013-12-10 14:27:18] Pushing work from pool 0 to hash queue
 [2013-12-10 14:27:18] Selecting pool 0 for work
 [2013-12-10 14:27:18] Got work from get queue to get work for thread 0
 [2013-12-10 14:27:18] DBG: sending http://pit.deepbit.net:8332 get RPC call: {"method": "getwork", "params": [], "id":0}

 [2013-12-10 14:27:18] BXF 0: Sending work 000000023248d69aa215b3bfb5d203c5ac03abd3a809cc113b2782650000000100000000f0811f3 d26ffc9c142d4c20566e2c2827e08268935f85b8e3a1f1dd1c8a24ed052a716a319061242 5

 [2013-12-10 14:27:18] BXF 0: Received hwerror 0

 [2013-12-10 14:27:18] BXF 0: Unrecognised string hwerror 0

 [2013-12-10 14:27:18] BXF 0: Received hwerror 1

 [2013-12-10 14:27:18] BXF 0: Unrecognised string hwerror 1

 [2013-12-10 14:27:18] BXF 0: Received hwerror 0

 [2013-12-10 14:27:18] BXF 0: Unrecognised string hwerror 0

 [2013-12-10 14:27:18] BXF 0: Received hwerror 1