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Re: AntMiner S2 1TH/s Miner (1w/GH/s)
by
klondike_bar
on 30/04/2014, 13:00:24 UTC
I tried the image from 1l1l11ll1l but for my it did not work.
win32discimager writes for a few seconds but after that i can't read the sd card.

There was also a other image ( updated? ) and that one worked.
It took a few minutes to write that one.

I have just send a email to bitmaintech to ask about this booting problem.
When i have found the problem i will post it in here.
You will probably need to format the SD card properly before writing the image or it might not work (it's partitioned). Download a SDFormatter to format the card and make sure you see the full memory available before writing the image with win32diskimager.

Sounds like you got it working though... if you did, you should make an img of the working card and write it to a spare or at least to disk, to make any future resetting go quicker.
Yes i can see the files on the SD card, both on the card i made with the diskimager and on the original one.
btw, the sd card i used came formatted, i will try SDFormatter tonight to be sure.
Thank's for the advice.

Make sure they are class 10 sd cards. That worked for me.
I had the same problem on my batch 2. Three of them just did not boot when restarted. Even after replacing the sd cards with new ones and the image provided by 1l1l11l1l (thanks!) still no boot. But they were not class 10 cards. I don't know why but as soon as I put in a class 10 card in, with the same image, it worked without a problem and on all three.
Good luck

same for my bitfury system a few months ago. the original SD corrupted after a few weeks and i could simply re-image it. however, after a few more it spat errors at me and would not read, format, or reimage. I switched to a new card of the exact same brand/size/speed and the same thing happened after a half-dozen power cycles.  I switched to an 8GB class 10 and no issues ever since