Read up on it a little, not all devices draw the same amount of power so
you don't know what's going to be starved.  You run into the problem a
bunch if you do usb-powered crypto mining, and they have some good powered
hubs.

On Sun, Mar 17, 2024, 10:31 PM Douglas Silva <[email protected]>
wrote:

> What's a DR? Disk rescue?
>
> Low voltage... Interesting. I've recently filed a bug report for U-Boot,
> because the Pi refuses to boot when I plug in a bunch of USB sticks at the
> same time.
>
> https://source.denx.de/u-boot/custodians/u-boot-usb/-/issues/1
>
> I usually have 3 USB sticks plugged in. One is root, the other is a
> keydisk, and the other is backup. The SD card slot is empty - it stopped
> working. Two of the sticks are on USB2, and the root is on USB3. That
> leaves one USB3 slot available. If I plug in two devices on USB3, it
> doesn't boot - that's what the bug report linked above is about.
>
> In addition, I have the official case fan installed.
>
>
> I'll try a powered hub whenever I can.
>
>
> On 3/17/24 18:40, Alan Corey wrote:
>
> Tried a DR Ok?  Could be a low voltage issue.  Powered hubs are good to
> keep around.  I have a Pi4 and a 512 GB SSD working fine in a USB adapter
> (under Linux).  Not my 1TB though.
>
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2024, 5:32 PM Douglas Silva <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm getting filesystem errors during operation, and they're not
>> associated with
>> a power outage. Looking at the serial console, it says something about
>> 'mangled entry' and lists the process involved in the crash, then ends
>> with a
>> debugging prompt, which is unresponsive.
>>
>> After forcibly shutting it down, it requires a manual 'fsck', which lists
>> multiple inconsistencies and corrupted files.
>>
>> Most of them happen to torrent data. I run a torrent client -
>> Transmission.
>> It's the busiest process I have, so it's no surprise that it is the most
>> affected. Shutting down Transmission definitely improves my uptime. But
>> Syncthing - another busy process that reads and writes a lot of files,
>> eventually becomes the victim of another filesystem error.
>>
>> Even 'git' once became involved in a crash. A Git repository I was
>> hosting
>> there became corrupted during a 'git push' - it crashed the server in the
>> same
>> way - and I had to rebuild it from backups.
>>
>> The storage media used as root is a Kingston DataTraveler USB stick of
>> 128 GB.
>> It's like one month old. What are the odds of this being a defective unit?
>>
>> I'm planning to try Linux on it, but if this is a hardware problem, the
>> journalling filesystems would only mask it for a while, right? I've read
>> that
>> OpenBSD 'ffs' doesn't do journalling.
>>
>> What do you think I should do?
>>
>>
>>

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