If you only plug in one of the power supplies, does the device still function but only running up half the boards at 250GH/s?
Just thinking about if a breaker trips.
Just thinking about if a breaker trips.
Since this rig is running with a USB hub inside, yes, that is exactly what will happen.
When they start using xlink, it will depend on if the master board is taken out or not so if one PSU goes down, you could lose the whole rig.
Why have they not fixed this to date?
If you connect each of the 8 separately, then they each can fail separately.
If you join them all via x-link, then the x-link chain is indeed a chain where everything below the failed point in the chain will stop working ... as is quite obviously expected.
If the next step was to create some board to handle the partial x-link failure by not having a 'chain' then if the board fails, you lose everything.
I'd be surprised if they bothered to do much about it.
Simply either use x-link, or connect all 8 via a USB hub directly.
This one of gigavps' (that I was testing cgminer on before he got it
) is as described, 8 independent USB devices in hubs - I guess much like the original FPGA MiniRig.Edit: though I'd also add - since you aren't ever going to get one - why do you care?
