Probably been covered already but if we've got 4 boards on the way, so an included miniplane as well, do we connect a USB cable to each card or does the miniplane have a single USB port for all 4 connected boards? Do I need to buy a USB cable?
From way earlier in the thread.... You can connect to the first board in the chain when connected to a miniplane or double scroll and the board contacts will handle it... Essentially one large chained miner on all the connected chips. There are no USB connections on the miniplane or double scroll, but when hooked up, you can just use the USB on the 8-board on connector 0.
You also have the option to connect all of the boards separately on their own USB and still use the miniplane and double scroll to just bridge the power.
My preference would be the single connection method for actual running and using the individual connections for debugging/tweaking if it seems like one whole bank of chips/board aren't working.
Unfortunately the CGMiner Drillbit-options are all or nothing so you won't be able to specify settings per board anyway. Unless you plan on running multiple CGMiner instances blocked off to specific boards driver path. But that's just crazy talk
