01-25-2021, 10:39 PM
(01-25-2021, 08:23 PM)TheOldPresbyope Wrote: DRONE7 said:
Quote:You won't be able to power an external USB hard drive from a Pi1's USB port. The Pi1 is simply not capable.
and you replied:
Quote:Ah that's a shame, it used to work on Moode v5 and v6. maybe I should go back to one of those versions.
This seems like a non sequitur.
I expect DRONE7 is alluding is the 600ma limitation on the total current through the Pi1 USB ports. By adding the line "max_usb_current=1" to the /boot/config.txt file you can boost this total to 1.2A.
This limitation has nothing to do with the particular version of moOde. If your external USB hard drive worked with a previous version of moOde then either it is self powered or it draws remarkably little current.
Regards,
Kent
Sorry i was replying to the wrong comment. The hard drive is s Seagate bus powered drive and I have not had issues previously with scanning the library in v5/6. Anyway the swap solution seems to be working for now, so I think I'l stick with that for the time being. thanks for you help
