Post
Topic
Board Hardware
Re: [ANN] Technobit HEX8A1 - 6/8 chip Coincraft A1 board -999 EUR March delivery
by
iongchun
on 16/02/2014, 01:08:35 UTC
Thanks for the delivery, Marto.
The fans are really noisy, I replace them with low CFM and quiet ones,
and run the HEX8A1 with only 175 in frequency and 870 in voltage parameter.

When connected to Linux machine, lsusb will show:
Bus 001 Device 017: ID 04d8:000a Microchip Technology, Inc. CDC RS-232 Emulation Demo

And it appears as a tty device:
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 166, 1 2g  16 08:51 /dev/ttyACM2

Showed in dmesg:
[  161.103406] cdc_acm 1-1.1:1.0: This device cannot do calls on its own. It is not a modem.
[  161.103442] cdc_acm 1-1.1:1.0: ttyACM2: USB ACM device

Running with cgminer:
Code:
cgminer version 3.12.3 - Started: [2014-02-15 21:11:05]
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):151.1G (avg):175.5Gh/s | A:1696768  R:28928  HW:64  WU:38.3/m
 ST: 2  SS: 0  NB: 99  LW: 1891862  GF: 0  RF: 0
 Connected to 10.0.0.254 diff 64 with stratum as user 1X.....
 Block: 168ab84a...  Diff:2.62G  Started: [08:53:52]  Best share: 1.86M
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 HEX8 0: 175  870/ 872mV | 173.9G/175.5Gh/s | A:1696448 R:28928 HW:64/0.24% WU:38.3/m
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

While I also run bfgminer with other mining hardware, it seems bfgminer could cause the OS to hang when it probe the tty device.
This can be avoided with run HEX8A1's cgminer first (so the tty device would disappear), or plug the HEX8A1 after bfgminer runs.

Oh, and it runs well with p2pool, with less than 2% DOA, compared to 5~6% DOA for BFL or BitFury devices.