Known Issues
Q: I have a full package unit and one or more standard units. Some Standard units show 0 hashrate or dont start hashing right away
A: USB Driver is a bit finicky for the USB controller on the hashboard. It can take several minutes for the controller to establish a good connection to the Standard unit and start hashing, so please wait 10-15 minutes and it should start up on its own. If you keep pressing restart the software won't have time to properly start up the hashboards.
I bought two "sets" of Full & Standard: each hosted at different locations. I have different problems with each of the two sets:
Set 1:
- The ASIC on the Full unit is running fine.
- Can't see the Standard ASIC.
lsusb doesn't show the Standard device attached at all, even after replacing the USB cable multiple times.
- Node is running, but only shows 10/32 connections. I'm assuming that's because I already have another node running on a "real" machine on my network that's stealing the inbound connections. (This is not a big deal, I'd just like to confirm that's what's going on.)
Set 2:
- Both hashboards work great and even hash slightly faster than advertised! (Yay!)
- NVMe drive is not detected, even after removing & reseating the drive, so I can't run the node.
TL;DR: I've basically got two out of 4 devices working correctly.I'll probably mix and match all of the devices to see if it's the USB port on the Full, but regardless, this does not give me a lot of hope in FutureBit's quality control. These boxes look really nice, but they are
not robust in the least. Over the years, I've been shipped multiple Bitmain ASICs badly packed in boxes that look like they've been catapulted across the country...and every one of them has run full-bore out of the box. They're basically bulletproof. I
want to support USA built products, but it looks like FutureBit has a ways to go to get to that level of reliability.
Any additional thoughts or suggestions would be much appreciated.