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Board Mining support
Identifying miner model
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s3binator
on 05/10/2018, 14:08:27 UTC
Hi,

Say I have several different miner and different Bitmain models, trying to automate inventory and set up. I am scanning the ip's after they are connected in batches and logging in through SSH using a script. Is there any way I can use linux commands to figure out what model the miner is? (S9,S9i,T9 etc).

The miners use Angstrom linux distributions that lack many hardware checking commands. I check the kernel log but still cant differentiate between a T9 and S9. The best I can think of is to check the default frequency and pools, keep database of which corresponds to which and figure it out accordingly. I know many models use the same controllers, so I have to check either some firmware version or info on the actual card hardware.

TLDR: is there a way to uniquely identify the model of a miner through some hardware/firmware check in the linux command line?