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Board Hardware
Re: ANTMINER S3 Discussion and Support Thread.
by
nst6563
on 11/10/2014, 02:19:18 UTC
Is anyone else putting their S3's on LeaseRig?  I have a couple on there and everything works great using the bitmain original cgminer.  However, if I replace that with the new cgminer Ckolivas posted I get very erratic behavior when someone rents the miner.  Things like low or 0 hashrate, it reboots, or otherwise just stops mining.  If I swap out Ckolivas' new build of cgminer with the Bitmain original it all runs fine again.  

Am I missing something?  Setting something wrong?  

chmod +x cgminer

Did you make it executable?

To add to the above, low hashrate in the UI sometimes happens when you restart cgminer rather than reboot. After updating to the new cgminer and making it executable, reboot the S3 via SSH not the UI.

Yes - it's executable....it wouldn't be mining and giving the erratic behavior if it wasn't able to execute it.

What I'm meaning specifically is the erratic behavior (at least for me) ONLY happens when the miner gets leased.  It will go on and offline and reboot and do all sorts of nonsense when the miner is on lease with cgminer 4.6+.  As soon as I switch back to the Bitmain version (and reboot - I've rebooted both via ssh as well as webgui and both result the same), everything returns to normal.  Nothing else is changed - only the cgminer binary.  Which is why I'm thinking I'm either missing something or maybe the new cgminer binaries don't support or require a different command line options.  I don't think it's the pools the miners are leased on either, I've seen different pools being used by different people leasing it.