[GUIDE] BitFury Miner Support/Tuning

[BTClobsta]

Hi! I download the raspberry pi image from the first post https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43738391/2013-Sep-27_BFSB_GM2.rar and write it to SD. Now how can I connect to Rpi? What is the default IP in this image?

did you try 192.168.1.249?

[GandalfG]

Okay I got it working. The only problem I got now is that I can only get bank number 1-11 working. I have 12 plugged in. but only 11 looks to be working.
I’m have a problem running the rig when I have all 16 h boards plugged in. it would just power up and shut off. But when I remove 4 (left with 12) it would power on and I would be able to hash. However it would only hash with 11 boards. i've also notice that after hashing for about 20min or so, some of the h boards stop hashing. only 4 would be hashing still and the rest would stop. why is that?

Any idea on how to fix this problem.

i doubt that its the psu. but i could be wrong. my psu is 700w and 570w towards 12v. i have 2 pci-e cables on the psu.
if you think its the psu. please direct me to the right place to buy the right psu.
psu model:
coolmax
cu700b

Mboard version ?

mboard is v3.0

Ok there is 16  factory overclocked board. I think PSU can't handle that much.
First set speed on all boards to 52
Login to Pi and do command

Code:

rm /opt/bitfury/best.cnf ; for i in {1..256} ; do echo -e "$i\taIfDSo\t52" >> /opt/bitfury/best.cnf ; done

1 - After that try run with 12 boards for test for 30 min.
2 - If no hash drop, shutdown miner and add 1 more board.
3 - Make test.
Repeat for max board count working stable.

I strongly suggest decrease voltage on all boards. Turn little pot near Pulse inductor on Hboards counterclockwise about a quarter turn or so.
 

[BenTuras]

Hi! I download the raspberry pi image from the first post https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43738391/2013-Sep-27_BFSB_GM2.rar and write it to SD. Now how can I connect to Rpi? What is the default IP in this image?

did you try 192.168.1.249?

I think the software takes the network address and replaces the last number by 249, so if your network is 192.168.11.x your bitfury will be 192.168.11.249.

You can probably get a list of clients by browsing to your access point ip address.

[server]

Hi! I download the raspberry pi image from the first post https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43738391/2013-Sep-27_BFSB_GM2.rar and write it to SD. Now how can I connect to Rpi? What is the default IP in this image?

did you try 192.168.1.249?

I think the software takes the network address and replaces the last number by 249, so if your network is 192.168.11.x your bitfury will be 192.168.11.249.

You can probably get a list of clients by browsing to your access point ip address.

It uses dhcp and gets the first free ip from your router/switch... just look it up in your router or switch.

[CMaxx22]

You can probably get a list of clients by browsing to your access point ip address.

did you try 192.168.1.249?

Thanx alot!

[chamber32]

I would also recommend the following if your hash rate is fluctuating wildly using automatic settings, it definitely stabilized my rate!
(I'm only running 4 boards, so I didn't change voltage settings.)

Thanks GandalfG!

Ok there is 16  factory overclocked board. I think PSU can't handle that much.
First set speed on all boards to 52
Login to Pi and do command

Code:

rm /opt/bitfury/best.cnf ; for i in {1..256} ; do echo -e "$i\taIfDSo\t52" >> /opt/bitfury/best.cnf ; done

1 - After that try run with 12 boards for test for 30 min.
2 - If no hash drop, shutdown miner and add 1 more board.
3 - Make test.
Repeat for max board count working stable.

I strongly suggest decrease voltage on all boards. Turn little pot near Pulse inductor on Hboards counterclockwise about a quarter turn or so.

[cypherdoc]

all of a sudden got a dead rig.

i can ssh in but don't get the normal log printout on login nor can i call up a stat.log.  raspi has green, red, yellow lights as normal but 0 hashing.  tried rebooting to no avail.

any suggestions?

[ricolein]

all of a sudden got a dead rig.

i can ssh in but don't get the normal log printout on login nor can i call up a stat.log.  raspi has green, red, yellow lights as normal but 0 hashing.  tried rebooting to no avail.

any suggestions?

Had same problem. In my case there was two burned boards. Remove all boards except one in each bus, try again. If it work add one board by one.
In my case two boards was burned.
Ciao

Enrico

[Swimmer63]

Auction for 2 h-boards closing in 3 hrs.  Boards are version 2.2 for m-board v3.
https://asktom.cf/index.php?topic=333237.0

[cypherdoc]

all of a sudden got a dead rig.

i can ssh in but don't get the normal log printout on login nor can i call up a stat.log.  raspi has green, red, yellow lights as normal but 0 hashing.  tried rebooting to no avail.

any suggestions?

Had same problem. In my case there was two burned boards. Remove all boards except one in each bus, try again. If it work add one board by one.
In my case two boards was burned.
Ciao

Enrico

that doesn't even work even with diff h boards in the first slot.  still can ssh in but no stat.log.  can still access BF GUI but 0 hashing.

does this imply a defective M board?

[GandalfG]

all of a sudden got a dead rig.

i can ssh in but don't get the normal log printout on login nor can i call up a stat.log.  raspi has green, red, yellow lights as normal but 0 hashing.  tried rebooting to no avail.

any suggestions?

Had same problem. In my case there was two burned boards. Remove all boards except one in each bus, try again. If it work add one board by one.
In my case two boards was burned.
Ciao

Enrico

that doesn't even work even with diff h boards in the first slot.  still can ssh in but no stat.log.  can still access BF GUI but 0 hashing.

does this imply a defective M board?

1 - start Chainminer manually sudo /opt/bitfury/start-miner-console.sh and check log.
2 - Try other SDcard and RasPi
3 - Check 1V8  and 3V3 on M-Board - You can measure 1V8 on coil L01 and 3V3  pin 1 Raspberry socked.

[darkfriend77]

using those heatsinks ...

4 x ICK PGA 17X17X8 Kühlkörper PGA 43.1 mm
1 x ICK-40B Kühlkörper DIL-40 51 mm

http://img-europe.electrocomponents.com/largeimages/L6744731-01.gif
http://img-europe.electrocomponents.com/largeimages/LD189900-01.gif

on the old h boards

and getting good results ...

[cypherdoc]

all of a sudden got a dead rig.

i can ssh in but don't get the normal log printout on login nor can i call up a stat.log.  raspi has green, red, yellow lights as normal but 0 hashing.  tried rebooting to no avail.

any suggestions?

Had same problem. In my case there was two burned boards. Remove all boards except one in each bus, try again. If it work add one board by one.
In my case two boards was burned.
Ciao

Enrico

that doesn't even work even with diff h boards in the first slot.  still can ssh in but no stat.log.  can still access BF GUI but 0 hashing.

does this imply a defective M board?

1 - start Chainminer manually sudo /opt/bitfury/start-miner-console.sh and check log.
2 - Try other SDcard and RasPi
3 - Check 1V8  and 3V3 on M-Board - You can measure 1V8 on coil L01 and 3V3  pin 1 Raspberry socked.

well there you go.  bad sd card.

need to copy image over to bad card.  

by running this:

Code:

dd if=/dev/sdx of=/path/to/image bs=1M

how do i determine what sdx and /path/to/image is in Ubuntu?

this is what lsblk returns:

Code:

sr0                    11:0    1  1024M  0 rom   
mmcblk0               179:0    0   3.7G  0 disk  
├─mmcblk0p1           179:1    0    56M  0 part  /media/alienware/boot
└─mmcblk0p2           179:2    0   3.4G  0 part  /media/alienware/9c7e2035-df9b-

[BenTuras]

Code:

dd if=/dev/sdx of=/path/to/image bs=1M

how do i determine what sdx and /path/to/image is in Ubuntu?

Just type df and you should see the sd card and known which /dev/sdx it is.
Why do you want to copy the bad card ?
Why not just download a fresh image and write it to a new sd card ?

[cypherdoc]

Code:

dd if=/dev/sdx of=/path/to/image bs=1M

how do i determine what sdx and /path/to/image is in Ubuntu?

Just type df and you should see the sd card and known which /dev/sdx it is.
Why do you want to copy the bad card ?
Why not just download a fresh image and write it to a new sd card ?

i have a good card to copy from.

do you have a link to download a fresh image for v2.2 h boards, and v3 m boards?

[BenTuras]

Code:

dd if=/dev/sdx of=/path/to/image bs=1M

how do i determine what sdx and /path/to/image is in Ubuntu?

Just type df and you should see the sd card and known which /dev/sdx it is.
Why do you want to copy the bad card ?
Why not just download a fresh image and write it to a new sd card ?

i have a good card to copy from.

do you have a link to download a fresh image for v2.2 h boards, and v3 m boards?

There are links in OP

[greaterninja]

So about 12 hours ago my bitfury miner stopped.

I was wondering what the hell happened.  I thought it was my cards or SD card again.


turns out I can mine on slush's pool and elgius but not on s1.ghash.io:3333

not sure wtf happened.

[GandalfG]

So about 12 hours ago my bitfury miner stopped.

I was wondering what the hell happened.  I thought it was my cards or SD card again.


turns out I can mine on slush's pool and elgius but not on s1.ghash.io:3333

not sure wtf happened.

Proper adressess
US
us1.ghash.io:3333

EU
nl1.ghash.io:3334

try use stratum+tcp://us1.ghash.io:3334

[juhakall]

So about 12 hours ago my bitfury miner stopped.

I was wondering what the hell happened.  I thought it was my cards or SD card again.


turns out I can mine on slush's pool and elgius but not on s1.ghash.io:3333

not sure wtf happened.

Proper adressess
US
us1.ghash.io:3333

EU
nl1.ghash.io:3334

try use stratum+tcp://us1.ghash.io:3334

ghash.io just had some downtime right at that moment.

I'm not sure about stratum proxy, but at least with BFGMiner if you omit the stratum+tcp:// part connecting to ghash.io will take a very long time. Haven't seen any other pool with that kind of issue. Without stratum+tcp://, the miner will try to connect using HTTP at first, and on all other pools, that always fails immediately so it tries stratum next.

[goxed]

Code:

1	AIfDSo	56	2.777	2.558	194	0	0	0	242	[0:0]	1	12 12 12 12 13 13 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
2	AIfDSo	55	2.477	2.494	173	1	0	0	236	[0:1]	37	11 11 11 11 11 10 10 11 11 11 11 11 11 10 11 11 	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 
3	AIfDSo	54	2.334	2.452	163	3	0	0	232	[0:2]	38	11 11 11 11 11 10 10 10 10 10 10 9 10 10 9 10 	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 
4	AIfDSo	56	2.620	2.336	183	1	0	0	221	[0:3]	2	12 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 12 11 12 12 12 12 12 	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 
5	AIfDSo	54	2.520	2.632	176	12	0	0	249	[0:4]	1	10 11 11 12 11 11 9 12 12 11 11 11 11 12 11 10 	1 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 
6	AIfDSo	54	2.362	2.706	165	14	0	0	256	[0:5]	5	9 10 11 11 10 11 11 11 10 10 11 11 10 10 9 10 	2 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 
7	AIfDSo	55	2.033	2.759	142	26	0	0	261	[0:6]	36	8 9 9 8 8 8 9 10 10 8 10 9 10 9 11 6 	2 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 3 1 2 1 2 0 4 	speed down
8	AIfDSo	54	2.849	2.706	199	1	0	0	256	[0:7]	2	12 12 12 12 12 12 12 13 13 13 13 12 13 13 13 12 	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 
9	AIfDSo	56	2.377	2.399	166	0	0	0	227	[0:8]	4	10 11 11 11 11 11 11 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
10	AIfDSo	56	2.448	2.399	171	0	0	0	227	[0:9]	6	10 10 10 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 10 10 	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
11	AIfDSo	54	2.462	2.357	172	0	0	0	223	[0:A]	5	11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 10 10 10 10 11 11 	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 	speed up
12	AIfDSo	54	2.248	2.378	157	0	0	0	225	[0:B]	26	10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 9 9 9 	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
13	AIfDSo	56	2.419	2.537	169	2	0	0	240	[0:C]	3	11 11 11 11 11 11 11 10 10 10 9 10 11 10 11 11 	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 
14	AIfDSo	56	2.591	2.431	181	2	0	0	230	[0:D]	0	12 12 11 11 11 11 11 10 11 10 11 12 12 12 12 12 	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 
15	AIfDSo	54	1.890	2.960	132	102	0	0	280	[0:E]	7	11 9 10 9 9 9 10 7 6 10 9 8 8 4 5 8 	4 6 5 6 6 6 5 8 8 4 5 6 6 10 10 7 
speed:824 noncerate[GH/s]:36.407 (2.427/chip) hashrate[GH/s]:38.104 good:2543 errors:164 spi-errors:0 miso-errors:0 jobs:375 (record[GH/s]:37.037)
0:	824	36.407	38.104	2543	164	0	0

Used a modded EOL card with 15 chips for this test. At 0.9V