Salut Dobi1, sa cumpar nu ma intereseaza. Daca vrei sa le reparam, putem face ceva. Da-mi PM daca vrei sa incercam reparatie.

Awsome!
Everybody can now do as they want with their miners.

This thread now contains enough info for us to do as the title says, build the original Bmminer from Bitmaintech's github.
I think we can close here.
Thank you Alexander1560 for making this tutorial public.
Thank you RadekG2 for your input.

Best regards,
Mihail

Thank you RadekG2,
Any chance you might want to share with us how you compiled Bmminer?
We would love a small tutorial here or on https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4030824.0    would be great.

Ok, so I got some time today.
I don't think crosscompiling is even necessary, everybody has an android device lying around that he can mess with right?
Well, it has to be a rooted Android device. (google can help you here.)
You need about 3Gb of free space on it to install LinuxDeploy, and configure a Debian jessie armhf linux. (Google here also)
Then install Connectbot and ssh into the linux that is now running on your handheld. 
 From here, follow  the Mreadme.txt from https://github.com/SpatariuMihail/kcolivas/blob/S9-bmm/Mreadme.txt

And bonus: you can also compile the original Bmminer from Bitmain: https://github.com/SpatariuMihail/bmminer-bitmaintech/blob/mymods/readme.txt

This is the best I can do for now.

DISCLAIMER, I have not tested the actual functionality of cgminer/bmminer from the above. I am NOT responsible for any harm, defects, downtime or whatever you can think of.

I am arround for questions, and help you as best as I can.
Regards,
Mihail

All the github repos that I found throw errors while compiling, including Codyle's.

I've been on it for quite some hours every day last week and managed to port the bitmain-c5 drivers to kcolivas's Cgminer 4.10.0, including clement-bitmain-c5.
Just look for "S9-bmm" branch and read Mreadme.txt.
This one compiles cgminer with "--enable-bitmain-c5" without any warning on a Debian-jessie armhf beaglebone black.
Basicly, it is the Bmminer-mix files with Cgminer makefile...
There are no mods in it, but it is a verry good starting point.
I cannot make "cgminer-api" succesfully but makes "api-example" without errors.(I wonder if it is neccesarry anyway).
Also Codyle's upgrade/downgrade scripts are here.

I would love to test it out , but I managed to burn my S9 controller by dropping a metal on it while it was powered on... I got to see "magic smoke" from the proccesor... . Oh well, I have an S7 controller on the way, maybe I will be able to use that one on S9 hashblades... If not, I will be searching for another S9 controller.
 
Oh, I also made another branch  called "S9" where I used files that were found on Codyle's, JamesHillard, and UBI (don't remember exactly wich file came from where)...
 This one also compiles succesfully, but with some warnings.


Check them out.

So then, next up: Crosscompiling... When I have time...
Maybe some of you can look into it... 

Regards,
Mihail

Dibblah,
Do you, by any chance, have a local zip of the repo?
Or does anyone have one that compiles succesfully?

All the "cgminer" git repos that I found (github.com/SpatariuMihail/) throw errors when it comes to compiling the Bitmain-c5 drivers.
I was trying to correct the errors of compile env/make files, etc.., and then it hit me that I do have an armhf device that runs Debian and I could compile it directly without cross compiling.
The problem is that I got up to the point where ./autogen, ./configure run without errors but "make" comand fails when building bitmain-c5 drivers...
I do not have logs atm.

Please, all you devs here. Some of you actually wrote the program, or contributed to it.
Help us out.

Hy Tim,
I have found a hardware hack that solved this issue of only 1 fan being detected:
First, find out wich fan conector is the one that does not see the actual fan, then move the conector, 2 resistors and 3 capacitors to an unpopulated fan plug.
Are you good with soldering, or maybe you have a friend that can do SMD soldering? (Difficulty level=low, I managed this with only a soldering iron- but crappy job, oh well, it works...)

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1klSzNzI1Z7DLqtzd1NGQxUKRSR2RB_mo

Notice that I moved the fan conector from Fan 5 (this was not detecting the fan in my case) to Fan 4, also R145, R147, C192,C194 and C195 to their respective counterparts for Fan 4.

When measuring with a multimeter, R145 showed only a few ohms (should have measured in Kohm range). The actual smd components were not defect, but something else in the controller was defect.
Also, you cannot move the plug to any unpopulated plugs on the board, because I also had to measure to see ifMihailnpopulated plug was defect. (Probably it had the same conection to the controller). In my case the Fan 3 plug also showed 0 ohms for R141.
Measure first!

Now the controller works as expected.


BUT,  I still want to learn to compile bmminer succesfully. Because I am curious...
Any help would be apreciated, I am an electronics hobbyist  advanced level, but a noob in compiling/crosscompiling.

Regards,
Mihail

Hy Fanatic26,
I am trying to build a version of the original bmminer with only one change: minimum fans 0 or 1; and this would be replacing the original bmminer on the actual S9 controlboard.

The reason(s) for this need is that I have a "defective" controlboard that can only detect one Fan... (I have bought it as defect, but that is the only defect it has, and I do not want to put it in the garbage bin).
The other reason is just to learn a bit of linux/compiling/crosscompiling...
 
This would also help people that want fanless S9's for oil immersion.. .
Reading through the source-code, I saw a line that mentioned "minimum number of fans"   which default has a value of 2.
Changing that line means that the whole bmminer needs to be recompiled.

Can you help me with this?

Hello all
Sorry for the noob question.
Could you please share some info regarding building Bmminer?
_---------
environment setup:
need 2 PATH: toolchain base path and other open source lib binary and include files base path.

for example:
XILINX_BASE_PATH=/home/XILINX/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.7-2012.11-20121123_linux
XILINX_OTHER_LIB_BASE_PATH=/home/XILINX/bin
--------------

I did get gcc... forXILINX_BASE_PATH , but I have no idea what files go into XILINX_OTHER_LIB_BASE_PATH.
Can you ,please, tell me what to include in this folder?
I am trying to build on a Linux Mint machine.

I have done linux builds of cgminer following guides before, but I never tried to crossbuild on linux for different distributions before.

So better, a little tutorial for me and everybody who needs it would be great if some more savy people have the time to write-up.

Edit: see post 12 for the tutorial link.

Beat regards, Mihail

Salut  Octav,
Vad ca ai setat sa nu primesti PM.
Ce ai de reparat?

Bump,
Inca interesat.

Salutari,
Achizitionez componente defecte de Antminer S9, indiferent de varianta(batch).

Ofer max 200 Ron pt o placa de hash, in functie de starea vizuala, componente lipsa, etc.
 
Ofer max 150 Ron pt controller de S9(indiferent de batch) cu tot cu cablurile spre hashboards.

Ofer max 70 Ron pt sursa bitmain originala pt S9 defecta.

Transportul suportat de mine, bineinteles.

Dati PM.

Cu stima,
Mihail

Googling about your issue sowed that a lot of people have this error and not only on S9 machines...
They said that 99% of the problem is because of bad pool/worker/password entry on the miner configuration...

Did you try a different pool?

Is maybe Bitmain server hitting a limit of connections?

Question : on a working Hashboard, when powering it up with only 12v rails and not conected to a controller,  is the red Tf led supposed to stay solid red?
 Ca someone who poseses god miners and defect boards test this?
This ,I guess, would be a quick and easy method to see wich board is defect on your machine when one board is going defect...
(And give me a hint when a repair was succeful or not)
 A solid red Tf led could indicate wheter clock and data lines are broken between the first and last chip on the chain and could prevent people from seeing "magic smoke" when trying to test boards...


Regards,
Mihai

Hello,
Can you post some general plan of the room that you are planning to use? Also important would be the number of miners you plan on using and also the main wind direction of your area related to your farm position.
 The main wind direction you can find by hanging a flag on the actual building.
With these informations, some of the forum guys can give you very good advice, and at those ambient temperatures that you have there, you might be verry succesfull with using natural air cooling for your room by only using some well-placed windows.
 Regards.
 

Hy Malamama.
I had the same issue when another forum fellow brought to me an S9 that was behaving wierd.
His machine was running full 14Th for a while, then it would start to oscilate hash power very much, and finally one hashboard would stop.

After flashing the latest firmware from bitmains's site, first the miner showed the same issue like yours, but after about 10 -15 minutes it would start hashing and the error was gone...

So you could let run for a while and see if the miner starts hashing.

BTW: after this firmware flash, the miner stays rocksolid at 14Th according to him.

Hy all,
Fairly new to this forum so don't take my words as reliable.
I recently bought a dead S9 hashboard to play around with it. (I do not own any complete miners, but a verry curios person I am )
It is a autotune version from March 2017.
Some notes to sumarize what you all have written in the previous posts: powerwize- there is one string of 21 chips in series with 3chips in paralel for each step (63 chips total); comunicationwise- 63 chips daisychained.
 If one chip goes bad and pulls any clock or data line to ground, the board is dead. Same situation if a chip interupts any af these lines.
Nice thing is that Bitmain has included testpads for each chip, so troubleshooting is fairly easy.
O this board, powering it up by itself, does not do any good. I get 0.38v at the buck converter output. (I am thinking that by missing the 3.3v line the PIC is not powered on, so no output).
Removing the heatsinks off the chips is easy if using hot air, so is scaping the leftover thermal adhesive from the chip by using a
hot soldering tip.

(Correct me here please) Measuring for short on the powerline steps with resistance setting on my meter is not helpfull because the chips have a verry low resistance, under 1 ohms each... I also noticed some resistor paralelled with each step of chips noted R500 wich would make measuring for shorted chips a bit harder.

These boards are missing some back heatsinks near the intake fan(12 to be exact), so overheating in this area is a posible reason of failure. (The 2 changed chips on this board were located precisely in the middle of the heatsinkless area).


I think I was lucky enough to buy a board that someone has allready attempted to repair, so the guy has replaced 2 chips. Unfortunately for him the resoldering process was not good, therefore some pins were not soldered to their pads.
After resoldering the 2chips, all measures tell me that the board is fixed. I am now sad that I removed all the heatsinks glued to the chips, as for further tests, I will have to clean all chips and reglue the heatsinks.
I have also an idea of repositioning the back heatsinks in a chess like pattern, to see if this improves cooling at the begining of the board...
If only I had a controller to test it... Does anyone located within EU have a spare controller for lending it to me?
Regards,
Mihai

Salutari,
Cine are aparate minat defecte?

Pot oferi ajutor în repararea minerilor.
Locatie: Navodari, jud. CONSTANTA

 Am experienta cu Gridseed Orb si Gridseed G-blade.
Edit1: + experienta cu Antminer S3 si Zeus miner.
Edit 2: + experienta cu Antminer S5  si S9

18.04.2018- stoc de piese de schimb originale provenite de pe hashboards de Antminer S3, S5 si S9-autotune.
Placa de S9 are un singur cip defect, restul sunt ok.

Va pot ajuta cu urmatoarele:
 -Controller : reparatie, debrick-uire, update firmware...
 -Unitate: reparatie hashboard ( inlocuire cipuri), curatare, inlocuire mufe alimentare...

Oferta curenta:
1. Puteti veni personal sau trimite aparatul prin cineva de incredere pentru a vedea unde locuiesc si pt a face cunostinta. Accept si semnarea unui document care va mentiona ca ati lasat aparatul defect temporar in posesia mea. In schimb, rog sa postati aici pe forum parerea dvs la sfarsit pt ca si ceilalti forumisti sa poata citi.
 2. Diagnosticarea gratuita. De asemenea, daca nu se reuseste reparatia, nu se taxeaza (+retur pe costul meu daca e aparat trimis cu posta/curier)
3. Costul reparatiei se va discuta dupa diagnoza.
4. Aparatul va fi supus unui test de minim 10-12 ore de functionare (la S9 doar placa reparata se va testa).

Atentie: Nu repar surse. Nu repar la domiciliul/locatia dumneavoastra.

   Va rog sa dati PM cu cateva detalii (tip aparat, manifestare defect , nume si nr de contact) si restul discutam fata in fata sau la telefon.

Cu stima,
Mihail

Hy all,
I am Mihail, I live in Romania and I am an electronics hobyist with board level repair skills(laptops, phones, tablets.. ).
I have been reading many of the topics on this forum and gotta say I am very interested in the technology used in these ASICS.

Is there anyone in EU that has some S9 components (defect ones) that are taking up space and are not interested in fixing them?
I am interested in controllers and hash boards that died while "on duty".
If you're willing to ship them to RO, I would be available to pay some amount of money for these damaged parts.
I want to study and see if these parts could be revived back to operating condition, but mostly I would use them as " learning material".
I do have experience with older Bitmain products, but I could not find until now any defect S9 components, not here in Romania anyway.
Reading through the topics made me even more curious about the S9 machines, this is why am posting here.
Untill now, only one forum user brought me a defect S9 but we were able to fix it with a firmware upgrade so I did not get to open the machine .

 Please PM me your offer, if any.

Happy mining!
Best regards,
 Mihail

Bump.