Quote from: Rabinovitch on October 05, 2014, 08:55:04 AM

Well, looking at all previous messages I can conclude that it was a bit of luck not to buy S4... It's firmware even hasn't been tested well...

Not so much that.

We have been rushing them for weeks to get the updated cgminer firmware (for all of the Antminers).
The fix they were expected to push, seems to be running perfectly fine. So far.

The hiccup involved, was uploading a firmware package with the wrong file path.
Caused the upgrade to fail before it started.
The "fixed" firmware package (link posted above, and will be on the Bitmain website "soon") does flash properly now.

This difficulty issue seems to be unexpected, and probably unknown by Bitmain up until now.
Completely unrelated to this firmware, as it happened before with the older firmware too.
It can be fixed manually easily enough if you know to be on the lookout for it, and I would assume that Bitmain can eventually push a fix so that manually setting difficulty is not essentially necessary.
Only recommended.

I would say they tested the firmware well enough. Just goofed on the deployment, due to the holidays. All is well now. (so far)

Quote from: xstr8guy on October 05, 2014, 09:02:21 AM

Damn you! Lol. I deleted that seconds after I posted it. Guess what thread I thought I was posting in? Hint: Spondoolies. Embarrassed

Whoa!! hold on now... you are trying to tell me there are not entirely 100% Jewish Chinese people running Bitmain??? Shocked

INCONCEIVABLE!!! hahaha