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Re: Cointerra Hardware Support **Unofficial
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LeviWalker
on 08/05/2015, 22:43:43 UTC
Hey Guys, sorry I have not been able to reply. I did just send someone the firmware, so I hope that helps.

If anyone else still needs it, here is the last stable version. This is what most, including myself, are running.
TerraMiner_0.7.56.tgz 11.4 MB
https://mega.co.nz/#!mUUUDagJ!hFa3bpwmTG_sxREnHYc5H1FPqxu_6oKwr2D5KU4gnlc

Here is the manual.

https://mega.co.nz/#!qddAVB6B!aQko7HHpOTSkr8VoWrGycE6V-m2FQIOCICL11dahzKI

If you want the other versions, they are below

TerraMiner_0.6.32.tgz
https://mega.co.nz/#!jMdlmJJT!116iPJVyr7gu7MnJ1QGJN6zTMH5mSuK2GXpN37X-TIY

TerraMiner_0.6.48.tgz 11.5 MB
https://mega.co.nz/#!ORMQVKTa!vBJK_Dg_Wdvtxix8k_oxWjTLIlSv3yWq_tymJXcpBCU

TerraMiner_0.7.6.tgz 11.4 MB
https://mega.co.nz/#!CRdy2Y5C!8ZTP-cbNQuycoDZm0ohCMcDUYqqu-oPgqsCHDssr4Vg

If you are having problems with the miner not doing anything from the web interface, make sure its connected to the internet first. If it cannot connect, it will not work at all. Past that, crack it open and go USB right into the miner (CTA) and use cgminer to try and wake it up. You can also do a firmware update/rollback and see if that changes anything. However, you should be able to run it right from a PC with no issues if the hardware works. I just had one of mine start to die and it is the cooling system. Something actually broke inside of it (the pump) and clogged up the line so it was heating up and turning off. I whacked the line out of the pump and could feel objects moving through the line, not good. However, it is running again so there is hope. If overheating is your issue, dont be afraid to smack the pump a little while its running to see if you can get it flowing again. That has worked for me on several occasions.

Good luck!

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Re: Cointerra Hardware Support **Unofficial
by
LeviWalker
on 04/04/2015, 20:09:37 UTC
big trouble -
I think maybe some lightning hit my miners and associated comm gear,
all of it is screwed up.
Both of my TIV's boot up and fail to have ethernet, have yet to figure out
what the issue is, nothing looks popped and nothing obvious from dmesg
so far.

Just open them up and go USB right to the PC running cgminer. The Ethernet port goes to the BBB which is hooked up to each board via USB. You dont need the BBB to run these but you will not have the web interface any more. They work fine without it though.
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Re: Cointerra Hardware Support **Unofficial
by
LeviWalker
on 03/04/2015, 23:46:51 UTC
Does anyone have a link to the latest CoinTerra firmware? Their website is now DOA.

Sure, I just sent a PM with download links. Let me know if you need anything else.
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Re: Bitminter bitcoin mining pool - Pays TxFees, Merged Mining, Fair PPLNS rewards
by
LeviWalker
on 25/03/2015, 22:35:41 UTC
Indeed. Real security is not achievable on a professional grade system much less an end user system. And I totally get where you are coming from with Google. Do some searches for call centers in India holding data for ransom from their clients, its shocking. You just have to do the best you can and limit your losses as much as possible. My goal is not to be completely secure but rather I just try to be more secure than the majority. By not being "low hanging fruit" I can fell pretty good that I will be ok when something happens. I know I am speaking to choir here and, admittedly, BTC is very different in that regard. So I just do what I do with my other bank accounts, have many and keep small amounts in each. My savings is in a credit union account with no electronic access. When I need money from it I have to go in person or get them to mail me a check. Its a pain but I never have to worry about more than a few hundred being stolen when my card is compromised. All things being equal, I trust Google more than anyone else.
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Re: Bitminter bitcoin mining pool - Pays TxFees, Merged Mining, Fair PPLNS rewards
by
LeviWalker
on 25/03/2015, 01:13:52 UTC
You are correct in theory. If your OpenID account is compromised everything attached to that is also at risk. In the wild, the risk is not much greater than someone compromising only your email account. AFAIK, there is no central list of what a particular OpenID account is tied to. So an attacker would need to know what you were actually using it for to exploit that. If they compromise your email alone, they have all of that anyway. Even if they dont have the password in your email, they can just reset it via your email and by the time you notice, the damage is done. That is why two-factor is the best approach. At least if they do get a password, they also need a land line or cell phone number or a mobile device tied to your account with the authenticator installed under your account. Not impossible by any stretch, but it makes it that much more difficult. Google (and most others) also uses browser fingerprinting and geo-location data to pair with your authentication requests. If you are not in the same general location, with the same browser fingerprint, it will raise flags and prompt you to perform addition validation. I sometimes use several things to obfuscate my usage and most large sites will stop me if I have tried to hit a service with an unusual pattern. Google will send me a text message before opening anything they control.
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Re: Bitminter bitcoin mining pool - Pays TxFees, Merged Mining, Fair PPLNS rewards
by
LeviWalker
on 24/03/2015, 23:16:58 UTC
I just got this when going to your website.

Website is offline No cached version of this page is available.
Error 521 Ray ID: 1cc606e707130f21
Web server is down

Working again now.
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Re: Bitminter bitcoin mining pool - Pays TxFees, Merged Mining, Fair PPLNS rewards
by
LeviWalker
on 24/03/2015, 23:07:36 UTC
I just got this when going to your website.

Website is offline No cached version of this page is available.
Error 521 Ray ID: 1cc606e707130f21
Web server is down
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Re: New to me - Terraminer IV
by
LeviWalker
on 24/03/2015, 01:21:03 UTC
Actually, I also have a 0.7.6 firmware version, which was released 03/24/14 but the latest is 0.7.56 which was released on 09/04/14 and is the last.

I have the following versions:

0.6.32
0.6.48
0.7.56
0.7.6

I also have all of the PDF documentation from their website. The text below is from the firmware download page.

9/24/15:   CoinTerra is aware of the “Shell Shock” exploit in bash implementations lower than version 3.2.52(1)-release however our embedded firmware is not vulnerable because we are not running bash.


09/04/14 Firmware 0.7.56 MD5: 2ACCF7DE2603490128A2A3A8266CEECD

- More robust performance due to changes in USB interface, voltage algorithm, power monitoring, and more

- More accurate temperature sensor calibration

- Avahi/Zeroconf support to easily find Terraminer IP addresses with mobile app

- Diagnostic Report in web UI

- Reset cgminer.conf from web UI

- Heartbleed fix (cgminer 4.3.5 and openssl 1.0.1g)

- Store cgminer logs on MMC so that they are available after system reboot

- Fixed minor bug that caused a corruption of cgminer.conf when removing middle entry from pool list in web UI
 

03/24/14 Firmware 0.7.6 MD5: B2250250EB6EDFF1E2D85B9C3B4E0974

 – The TerraMiner’s MAC address is now displayed in the web Control Panel page footer.

 – Added Identify On/Off option to physically locate TerraMiner by flashing CTR1 LED orange.

 – Added Restart System option to the Configuration screen to reboot the TerraMiner.

 – Fixed potential issue affecting some units which were showing lower-than-nominal performance at the pool.

 – Updated CGMiner to version 4.1.0.

 – Miscellaneous code fixes.


03/03/14 Firmware 0.6.48 MD5: 186EE9BB38605B279BE20B098C6C7EE5

- Changed bootup DHCP timeout from 9 seconds to 60 seconds to allow for slow auto-negotiation of some network switches.

- Added the ability to disable/enable root user for SSH/FTP security. Default is enabled. Set to disabled if you don’t use SSH/FTP access to the TerraMiner.

- The CTR1 LED illuminates solid red if no Ethernet is found after booting. Reboot the TerraMiner with the Ethernet cable connected to the TerraMiner and your Internet connection.

- Updated CGMiner to version 3.12.3.

- Miscellaneous code fixes.


02/12/14 Firmware 0.6.32 MD5: FA3550B7044AFC7359DF3E455E0B74D5

  – Updated CGMiner to version 3.12.0

  – Miscellaneous code fixes.


For installation instructions and troubleshooting please see the TerraMiner User Guide
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Re: How About This Mining Rig?
by
LeviWalker
on 23/03/2015, 23:23:55 UTC
Wow, that is crazy. In the comments on that page, I saw the link below, which is even crazier.

In October of last year Motherboard gained access to a massive, secretive Bitcoin mine housed within a repurposed factory in the Liaoning Province in rural northeast China.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8kua5B5K3I
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Re: [∞ YH] solo.ckpool.org 0.5% fee anonymous solo bitcoin mining! 29 blocks solved!
by
LeviWalker
on 23/03/2015, 20:08:57 UTC
With only ~350gh I've yet to get a best share in the billions (been mining about a month), best I've seen was 383M I believe.
I had my block eruptors pull a 30m share, but only do a mil or two now and then... I was really surprised.

610M is my best to date with ~3T. That was running on a local CKPool node. I bounce back and forth between solo.ckpool.org and my local node to see if there is any difference.
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Re: New to me - Terraminer IV
by
LeviWalker
on 23/03/2015, 19:46:15 UTC
Hello,

I was wondering if you could upload the manual somewhere so I could download it? I have a Terraminer IV I would like to have the manual. I am mining at BTC guild ATM, it's ok my luck hasn't been that great either.

Thanks!

You can still grab it from the site with a direct link.

http://cointerra.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/TerraMiner-User-Guide-1.pdf

What firmware version are you running? 7.56 was the last version released, AFAIK. I grabbed everything from the website before they went under so I do have copies of everything. Let me know if you need anything.
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Re: Cointerra Hardware Support **Unofficial
by
LeviWalker
on 20/03/2015, 23:55:54 UTC
Just wanted to let you know that running the goldstrike's directly into a linux box and bypassing the BBB did not yield and noticeable results for me. I ran several different versions (from 4.3.5 to 4.9.1) of cgminer and the results were all about the same. I was using the binaries and did not compile but I would expect the results to be the same.
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Re: OFFICIAL CGMINER mining software thread for linux/win/osx/mips/arm/r-pi 4.9.1
by
LeviWalker
on 20/03/2015, 11:09:55 UTC
Up until my cointerra turned into a blast furnace and tried to weld itself to my shelf, I ran it off a PC instead of the BBB built in and found the USB communications much more reliable where errors were virtually non existent and latency was lower, so I definitely think there's an advantage (provided you have ridiculously cheap electricity, otherwise these make great boat anchors).

Thanks I think I will give that a shot today.
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Re: OFFICIAL CGMINER mining software thread for linux/win/osx/mips/arm/r-pi 4.9.1
by
LeviWalker
on 19/03/2015, 23:38:02 UTC
Cross compiling is not for the inexperienced. I suggest you take the top off the cointerror, pull out the usb cables from the beaglebone controller and plug them into any pc running linux. The device works fine from any controller running cgminer.

I have two of these myself and was just thinking the same thing. Mine actually run fine (good actually) so I dont know if there would be anything to gain other than experience by doing this. I am running your CKPool in the same rack as the miners so what do you think about running these with cgminer on the server? Its a virtual environment so I can easily add another server for mining only if that would be better.
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Re: Cointerra Hardware Support **Unofficial
by
LeviWalker
on 19/03/2015, 23:12:06 UTC
Yea I hear ya .. if it aint broke ... right?

I actually just found this post from ck on the matter .. I may give this a shot and see if it does anything. Easy to fall back if needed. I have a node running CKpool on a server in the same rack with these miners so I can easily test it out.

Quote
I suggest you take the top off the cointerror, pull out the usb cables from the beaglebone controller and plug them into any pc running linux. The device works fine from any controller running cgminer.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.msg10717197#msg10717197
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Re: Cointerra Hardware Support **Unofficial
by
LeviWalker
on 19/03/2015, 20:37:09 UTC
Anyone try to update cgminer on these units? Would it be worth it? Mine are running 4.3.5 and the current is 4.9.1 so I would imagine there have been some improvements in the last year. Mine run fine but I wonder if they would run any better with newer code.

What do you think?
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Re: [∞ YH] solo.ckpool.org 0.5% fee anonymous solo bitcoin mining! 29 blocks solved!
by
LeviWalker
on 16/03/2015, 23:33:30 UTC
Stats are updated every 1 minute. Anything less than one minute makes no sense and every minute is fine by me.

Thanks!
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Re: [∞ YH] solo.ckpool.org 0.5% fee anonymous solo bitcoin mining! 29 blocks solved!
by
LeviWalker
on 16/03/2015, 23:20:40 UTC
I have just decided to put everything in solo and let it ride. So far it appears to be working.

{"hashrate1m": "3.64T", "hashrate5m": "3.13T", "hashrate1hr": "3.05T", "hashrate1d": "1.14T", "hashrate7d": "199G", "lastupdate": 1426547567, "workers": 2, "bestshare": 118405504.19514887}

I was going to setup a little python script to track my metrics over time and setup some monitoring alerts so I know if something goes south. Do you have any preference on the poll interval to the stats page? I was thinking like every 5 minutes unless you don't want the extra 288 hits a day.

Thanks for setting this pool up!
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Re: Cointerra Hardware Support **Unofficial
by
LeviWalker
on 30/01/2015, 00:26:29 UTC
Here's what I know about the D45 light:

Obviously if it is on and red that's bad!

I had a red D45 on one board that was fixed by simply re-applying the thermal paste - this can be verified by downloading the diagnostic file and following the logic - i.e. everything boots, then slowly overheats and shuts down - as opposed to not starting at all.  So, that was my first instance with the red D45

Furthermore, I know if a pump is not working or not connected it will go straight to the red D45 without even trying to start beyond the first flicker of all the lights D37-D44.

What I did (I'm not smart with programming) is download NotePad++ and used it to search and highlight words like "overtemp", "fail", and "error" in the diagnostic file to see where things are going wrong.  Although there is a lot I do not understand - I simply compared it to one of my normal machines.

By the way, SW1 (push button) on the back of the board is apparently the reset switch - used it to diagnose things while it was running - simply restarts the respective board.

My assumption is: D37-D44 are lights representing each of the 8 cores and by sequencing yellow it means everything is normal.  If it is skipped in the sequence it must be bad or not responding.  D45 is some sort of error indicator whereas OFF is normal and Red is bad but does not necessarily always mean the same thing?Huh

Would be nice if between all of us here we could put together a guide of known issues/fixes and a decoding key for the diagnostic report in a public document that doesn't require reading this entire thread - anyone know how to do this?

More to follow as I troubleshoot...

I know this is a little old but I wanted to put my 2 cents in for future help. I also had a red D45 and a core not working. I was able to remove the pump and smack it with a screwdriver a few times and get the pump working again. If that pump does not work, the core will be shut off and that light will be red. Not very scientific, or high tech, but a pump is a pump. When they dont move, smack em!

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New to me - Terraminer IV
by
LeviWalker
on 29/01/2015, 01:47:12 UTC
Greetings!

I am just getting back in BTC and picked up two Terraminer IV units for $300 each. I really had no intention of starting mining again but the price was right and having Th/s just sounded cool. I managed to get the latest firmware, manuals, etc from the site, despite them taking it offline (thanks Google cache). I have not been able to find much recently on these and what I have found has not been too positive. I would have a different perspective had I purchased at retail when they came out but after seeing these I am impressed. Granted I only have old 60-110Ghs BFL hardware to compare but these seem solid. As soon as I got them I cracked the seals, cleaned them out and started to inventory the components. One was perfect and the other had a core that was not working. I was able to track that pretty easily to a pump that was not running and after a few minutes of highly technical, very sensitive, work with a specialized tool (removed pump and smacked it with the back of a screwdriver) it was once again pumping and all cores running. So I am currently hashing on Slush's pool and getting 3.2-3.6 Th/s between the two after 24 hours straight and overall I am pretty impressed with these units.

Does anyone have any experience or wisdom with these that you would care to share? How about pools? I used Slush's in the past, and I like the new beta site, but the luck has been bad since I joined the pool. Hopefully I don't have a curse on my miners.

TIA