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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Efudd's Custom Z9 OC Firmware available!
by
chipless
on 23/10/2018, 06:35:38 UTC
I have been testing the per-hashboard feature for the last 24 hours or so, and it is working as I would expect. There are a couple of pieces i need to finish up before releasing the next revision. These include:

* Adding a user interface to control the frequencies per hashboard
* Updating the frequency reporting to show properly in the webUI
* Updating the default frequencies to better match reality
* Looking into the ability to set frequencies on the fly without restarting the whole 'cgminer'. I think I know how to do this, I just need to test it.
* I have located voltage control, but will not be enabling it yet. That will come in another version in the future, if at all. I need to do a lot more testing on that first.
* Lots more in the future....

Some of the current delay is also associated with folk acquiring the firmware and then selling it on eBay. I will begin enforcing the pre-existing node locks in the next release -- I did not want to have to go to that step. :/ This means the firmware will only work on the number of machines you specified when speaking with me. If this is an area of concern, please contact me ahead of time or downgrade to stock firmware.

... and some of the current delay is just that this has been a lot of work to figure out. Without the source code, it is quite a challenge to add functionality to a binary and I've probably put another 60-80+ hours of work into the next set of features in the last 9 days.

Thank you,

Jason

Will the new version support these features for 4 ASIC boards hooked to the Z9, I ask because I went in on a unit with 2 other guys and we split the boards so I am running about 70-75k/sol with the 4th board added to a Z9 at 656mhz any higher 1 board drops an ASIC. The 4th sits alongside with 2 CPU fans attached to the upper and lower heatsink in the middle. It runs 20 degrees cooler with 2 cpu fans then when the case. Also do you look for beta testers for your full versions if so I am interested I push mine to the limit to try and the most for my buck. I am a old developer of another type of devices.