Hi,
I’m an total beginner and plan on buying one Gridseed miner to play around a bit.
In your opinion, is it better to use bfgminer or cpuminer? with the gridseed?
To get familiarised to mining I played with cpuminer/minered on my laptop, and I get the basics and how to enter pools into cpuminer and making that work ( at ridiculously low hashrate but need to learn first )

I can hook one of these just straight to my laptop with adequate configuration and that’s all?

If I want to use two of these, one to mine on a multipool and an other on for example an litecoin pool, can I hook them up trough an USB hub on my laptop or does this involve other hardware?

thanks!

Does anyone know what those 3 hashrates mean/represent next to: “GSD 0: | “

jamie, bfgminer works with the standard COM to USB virtual drivers for your miner, it should automatically detect the devices when you run it with the included bat file that will tell the miner to scan for the available Gridseed devices and will run only on them. The miner will also detect GPUs if you have some connected to the system, but will not start mining on them, they will be shown as OFF.

jamie, yes, bfgminer seems to be the easiest to use with Gridseed ASICs for now, but there are some issues that still need to be resolved with it as well, hopefully the support will be improved further very soon.

Dmitry, it is not possible directly as the cgminer 3.8.5 for BTC mining on Gridseed requires the device to have the driver replaced with WinUSB and bfgminer looks for the virtual COM ports of the ASICs.

mrminer, no, it is not normal, but it can happen… the Gridseed support need some tweaking apparently. Try restarting the miner software to see if they will all be working and accepting work from the pool.

Hi admin. Thanks for the quick response, I have tried restarting it a couple of times and it seems to happen to random units each time. Going to go experiment with cpuminer and see if I get the same problems. Might try the wiibox controllers too, though have heard they aren’t very stable.

Hi Admin, no not getting anything left for a good hour connected to the pool, no hash reported in the stats. It does show its hashing but no reports in the summary of rejected or accepted like you would see with a graphics card. Not to sure what to try.

What exactly do those 3 hashrates mean/represent next to: “GSD 0: |” 5s avg, avg since boot, avg after deduction of rejection or something?
Example: http://i.imgur.com/bVMRqST.png
Also, are these figures OK?

Thanks for the quick reply, admin!

Are these figures OK as there is quite a different in the last reported hashrate

Thanks!

Thanks! Keep up the good work.

We are still waiting for our Raspberry Pi to arrive to test using the Gridseed ASICs with it.

My first 5-chip Gridseed, couldnt run it under cgminer nor cpuminer, but YES under bfgminer so HALLELUJAH, right?

But when it starts, it says like “running under dual mode”, …but the OP says this version of BFG is for scrypt only. I’m getting alternating red then green then red-and-green lights. Is this the best BFG is going to do, or do I need to change the command line?

Thanks for your interest in my concern. The “dual” text scrolled off the screen during the start-up, so I just now restarted the miner so as to make the screen shot, and I did not see the word “dual” this time.

I do indeed have the –script argument in the command line, and my hashrate is consistent with single mode scrypt operation, so I’m comfortable that the gridseed is not wasting time trying to mine BTC.

“To use this with MultiMiner, just replace the bfgminer folder in the MultiMiner installation with this.
Voila, GridSeed (scrypt-only) support in MultiMiner GUI without waiting for BFGMiner 4x.””??????

How to you get multi miner to see the devices?

SoyMilk, just remove the -d parameter from the command line and it should run on GPUs as well…

jamie, just add the new pool, user and password settings like you do with the first pool in the command line.

I noticed a strange behaviour. I can’t figure out why its happening. I have 12 Gridseeds plugged up to my laptop which I remotely access from my Nexus tablet using splashtop. The strange thing happens when I connect, my Gridseeds begin to hash faster. Each one get around 40 – 50 khs boost while I’m remotely connected. When I disconnect their hash rate lowers and returns to normal. Any idea why this is happenning? Or a way this can be replicated without having to remain remotely logged in for a speed boost?

wow really frustrating – had it working great and restarted now I’m getting “Hardware monitoring may NOT match up with devices!” – and can’t get anything running again. Any ideas?

I’m running on windows 7 32 bit was having a lot of issues till I rebuilt the OS – now it’s running fine (so far) and all I need to do is set up a failover pool

I’m pretty much running the stock bat file…

bfgminer.exe --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://us-west.multipool.us:3352 -u MotoBean.1 -p x -d gridseed -S gridseed:all --set-device gridseed:clock=850

Regards,
MB

thanks that works great! so how many HW errors a day (say on 20 GS) before it’s unacceptable? – Thanks again for the help.

problem is when I do that it drastically reduces my hash rate – – anyway this should be done in increments of 25? so 850, 825?

I can seem to find how to uninstall the zdiag drivers I replaced. Can anyone guide me on how to do that. They say to simply replace the gridseed.inf can anyone tell me where I will find that file and how to replace it. Running windows xp.

Thanks for all the awesome work you guys do. 1K doge your way.

meowmixer, that should work with both the Gridseed ASICs and the GPUs, what problem are you having?

Oops! I meant to say “… bfgminer runs much much better than cpuminer-grid…”

I will check Watts and let you now. Tried with cpuminer-grid and still 55W. Have NOT tried cgminer
Thanks for replying so quickly!!!

No, the power supply is of no importance here… based on its efficiency you can get slight variation in the power usage at the power socket, but nothing significant. You getting 55W of power consumption means that for some reason the BTC cores of the chips do not get disabled and they should be with all software miners except from the first initial releases coming from gridseed.

I cant get more than 15 GSD’s to work… I have 20 I’m trying to get hashing. Any ideas?

I was having same problem with CGminer.

Thanks

Jackboy, yes this is pretty much normal for Scrypt only mining without any modifications.

Which version of BFG miner works with both Modded GridSeed 5 chips and Zeus X6 Lightening at the same time? I’d rather run both from one GUI if possible.
I am currently running BFG4.2.1 for Zeus and CPUMiner for the overclocked GridSeed farm.
Both seem to be running stably via the same USB hub.
Thanks for your help!
Dee

If it is a Scrypt-based coin, then GPU mining is pointless already since there are much more powerful specialized ASIC miners for quite some time already.