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Re: MultiMiner Remoting & MobileMiner: Your rigs. Your coins. Your pools. Your way.
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Jondozer
on 03/04/2014, 17:09:04 UTC
Hi Nate,

Been really happy with MultiMiner for running my gridseeds on win8.1. It's my most troublefree option I've tested. I wanted to post this problem I've been having running 30 gridseeds in MM. It doesn't seem to occur when I have less than 5 - 10 running at once:

More often than not, when I start mining, 1 or 2 or 3 miners won't find shares, or they find 1 or 2 shares then stop. They are hashing full speed the whole time, even the ones not reporting shares. I've tried various combinations of "restart suspect miners" and "detect orphaned miners", but I rarely see an effect on this problem. The problem is not specific to any particular miner or com port, it jumps around.  I hit stop, then start mining again... Previous ones that didn't work, are now working, new ones are now not working. This happens 50-75% of the times I start mining. Its obvious to me when the problem is happening, so I don't wait more than 10 mins usually. If they are all going to work, they tend to all find shares in the 1st 1-2 mins. This has been true for me at any diff setting I use at the pool (multipool.us). But, it only takes about 10 mins of stop/starting to get all of them to work at once, and once they do, they run for days!

thanks

This pic was at a high diff setting, hence the low amount of shares...
http://i.imgur.com/waF1mme.jpg

Can you please explain the processes you went thru to get multiminer working with your gridseed it would be highly appreciated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Was pretty easy.

1. Disabled digital driver signatures in win8.1.
2. Installed gridseed drivers, linked by Nate in this thread.
3. Updated mm, hit hardware scan, waited 5 mins.
4. Replaced bfgminer in users/myuser/local/multiminer/miner with Nate's pre-4.0 test version.
5. that was it.

Once each gridseed device has the proper driver showing in device manager (should say "gridseed orb" for each), hardware scan in mm should detect them. If it doesn't, try a restart of mm or a reboot, then repeat.

ugh: forgot a step...
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Re: MultiMiner Remoting & MobileMiner: Your rigs. Your coins. Your pools. Your way.
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Jondozer
on 03/04/2014, 16:57:17 UTC
Right on the settings page it has a check box to restart suspect miners.

I'm aware.  It doesn't seem to do it when this happens.

I'm also aware... "I've tried various combinations of "restart suspect miners" and "detect orphaned miners", but I rarely see an effect on this problem. "

However, two times (out of ~100 tests) I have seen the process log state that mm restarted "frozen" miners, but this has been almost impossible to recreate. "Detect suspect miners" seems to happen immediately when you START mining, and when you have 30 miners this can lag for 3 mins or more before any hashing is reported. So I leave that unchecked now. So we've got frozen, suspect, and orphaned miners... maybe Nate could shed some light on this area.

I've read a few posts where people ask for mm to launch multiple instances of bfgminer to make restarting individual miners easier, that seems smart, but I honestly don't care how he gets there. I would love to see some more aggressive restarting of miners based on lack of accepted shares, without restarting all of them. Ideally, if we could rightclick a miner and restarting it manually, that would be awesome.
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Re: MultiMiner Remoting & MobileMiner: Your rigs. Your coins. Your pools. Your way.
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Jondozer
on 31/03/2014, 16:36:23 UTC
Once 4.0 is closer (probably today / tomorrow) I'll release another build. If the issue still exists then I will start working with individuals to address it.

Cool, thanks. Looking forward to the new build.
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Gridseed mining discussion #irc channel
by
Jondozer
on 29/03/2014, 23:34:48 UTC
Hi,

We started an irc channel for Gridseed mining, modding, troubleshooting and general discussion. Its pretty cool.

#gridseedmining on freenode.net
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Re: MultiMiner Remoting & MobileMiner: Your rigs. Your coins. Your pools. Your way.
by
Jondozer
on 29/03/2014, 18:20:17 UTC
Hi Nate,

Been really happy with MultiMiner for running my gridseeds on win8.1. It's my most troublefree option I've tested. I wanted to post this problem I've been having running 30 gridseeds in MM. It doesn't seem to occur when I have less than 5 - 10 running at once:

More often than not, when I start mining, 1 or 2 or 3 miners won't find shares, or they find 1 or 2 shares then stop. They are hashing full speed the whole time, even the ones not reporting shares. I've tried various combinations of "restart suspect miners" and "detect orphaned miners", but I rarely see an effect on this problem. The problem is not specific to any particular miner or com port, it jumps around.  I hit stop, then start mining again... Previous ones that didn't work, are now working, new ones are now not working. This happens 50-75% of the times I start mining. Its obvious to me when the problem is happening, so I don't wait more than 10 mins usually. If they are all going to work, they tend to all find shares in the 1st 1-2 mins. This has been true for me at any diff setting I use at the pool (multipool.us). But, it only takes about 10 mins of stop/starting to get all of them to work at once, and once they do, they run for days!

thanks

This pic was at a high diff setting, hence the low amount of shares...
http://i.imgur.com/waF1mme.jpg
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Re: [GUIDE] GridSeed GC3355 5 Chip Setup/power/windows/linux/rpi by UnicornHasher
by
Jondozer
on 17/03/2014, 02:16:13 UTC
I have had success using Ubuntu server and dtbartle cgminer. No hang ups with the USB ports with 20 miners.

...too bad actually as I miss using cgwatcher but it's been solid.

I am going to try volder's workaround tonight, because i want to use cgwatcher too.

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Re: [GUIDE] GridSeed GC3355 5 Chip Setup/power/windows/linux/rpi by UnicornHasher
by
Jondozer
on 17/03/2014, 01:10:07 UTC
Hey all,

This is my first post here. This thread (and a few others) have been really helpful to me getting 24 gridseeds running on windows 8.1. I wanted to say thanks to all contributing. I have also been searching for a decent #gridseed irc. Not much luck so far, the rooms are small, quiet and/or specific to a store that sells gridseeds. So we started #gridseedmining on freenode.net to share info, specs, builds, tips tricks and workarounds. We'll see if it picks up any popularity.

Anyways, thanks again. Hope to see you all in the channel. #gridseedmining FTW!

Im still looking for a way to get Windows to see these devices. I downloaded the recomended cpuminer from page 1, but the devices don't show up in the device manager under windows. Are there any tricks to getting Windows to recognize these as USB devices?

I went with cgminer 3.7.2 for gridseed listed here:
http://cryptomining-blog.com/1262-download-cgminer-3-7-2-for-windows-scrypt-mining-on-gridseed-5-chip-gc3355-asics/

and followed the instructions to replace the drivers. There are some quirks, though, as others have mentioned. You have to plug in or enable the miners AFTER you start cgminer, and occasionally the quit returning shares and you have to start the miner over. I'm going to try bfgminer too.
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Re: [GUIDE] GridSeed GC3355 5 Chip Setup/power/windows/linux/rpi by UnicornHasher
by
Jondozer
on 16/03/2014, 23:49:45 UTC
Hey all,

This is my first post here. This thread (and a few others) have been really helpful to me getting 24 gridseeds running on windows 8.1. I wanted to say thanks to all contributing. I have also been searching for a decent #gridseed irc. Not much luck so far, the rooms are small, quiet and/or specific to a store that sells gridseeds. So we started #gridseedmining on freenode.net to share info, specs, builds, tips tricks and workarounds. We'll see if it picks up any popularity.

Anyways, thanks again. Hope to see you all in the channel. #gridseedmining FTW!