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Board Mining support
Re: Safe to mine with block erupters with USB hard drive connected?
by
SirMintALot
on 27/09/2013, 14:58:26 UTC
BFGminer also doesnt support USB hot plugging.

Wrong. It does support hot plugging as of the latest revision.
As far as I know CGminer supports USB hot plugging. With BFGminer 3.2.1 I had to restart it to get another USB Block Erupter recognised.
Oh well, I have to correct myself, you can add a new Block Erupter to a running BFGminer:
- Plug in the Erupter and wait until windows has configured the driver
- Press "M" to manage devices
- Press "+" to add a new device
- Type "all" to scan for new devices
Downside: it is detected as ICA instead of BES, so it has a higher HW and gives you less accepted shares. Restarting is the better solution