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? >> >> >>
