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Board Mining software (miners)
Re: Linux mining distro for the Raspberry PI - MinePeon
by
Malakai
on 07/08/2013, 08:51:04 UTC
I have seen comments with the Pi and USB 3 Hubs. A very small few have been said to work (Depends on what is plugged into them) quite a few won't.

I am not sure if the HUBS really support 1.1 or 2.0 operations that is up to the HUB manufacturer to prove. Ultimately almost no device like the Pi has a chip that supports 3.0 USB the chips are just too expensive. (It's basically a cell phone)

One test is take a powered Anker plug it into the Pi without anything in it then take a 2.0 HUB unpowered and plug it into the Anker then plug an ASIC into it. Can it mine? This is just something I would like to know Smiley But I think it would to a degree show the Anker doesn't really support 1.1 or 2.0 very well.

Note this has been known to work with Keyboards, and Mice that will not work in an Anker as well as other 3.0 Hubs. It should be that the unpowered 2.0 Hub is what is translating the devices that are not USB 3.