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I have found out the probable reason why your hub draws full active current on the Pi and not when plugged into the PC. It's because the kernel is currently configured without autosuspend support for USB. The PC, on detecting no devices plugged into the hub, will issue a suspend command that will pu...

Your newer rev2 Pis will probably have newer SDRAM. There have been firmware updates that support this newer SDRAM. You should update your "Image". On your old Pi, if you run sudo rpi-update then this will download latest kernel/firmware and save these to disk. If you then image that files...

I am enamoured by your diligent use of the classic black-on white colour scheme. Your congruent main AC busbars are also appealing and de rigeur. But seriously - if you're using mains electrik in your design then you need to think protection - both from fingers and from fire. Your 10A fuse is a good...

The root FS is ext4. You can't check it on windows - but it's very very easy to run Linux on a PC nowadays - you can even run it from a USB pendrive and boot off that in a readonly mode that doesn't touch your PC's hard drive. The reason that it panics is because it can't reliably recover the filesy...

"Jumbo frames" are only ever supported for gigabit-capable chipsets. The maximum MTU for 100mbit ethernet is defined as 1500 (1518 on wire) bytes. While the SMSC9512 chip may accept a jumbo frame setting, all the hardware in between has to as well - or interesting behaviour may result (usu...

I'd say your Pi is definitely poorly. RMA is short for "return materials authorisation". It's a verbiaged noun - kind of like Xeroxing - which is basically the process you go through to return something under warranty. Open a dialogue with the company that supplied you with your Pi, claim ...

There's nothing that is immediately obvious.

Can you try again after a sudo rpi-update?

Can you export the pin as a GPIO output and try to flip it?

As far as I know, the only SD cards to not work properly are the original MMC-type SD cards. They will boot to the rainbow square but typically fail after that.

I have a 512MB SD card that's nearly a decade old that works with the Pi. Busybox FTW.

The USB physical link between the SOC and the SMSC chip is being reset. This has the side effect of suspending all your attached devices as well - certain types of keyboards do not like to be suspended and never wake up again afterwards. Do you still experience the reset messages (the "hprt0 in...

There are two parameters that control the behaviour of the FIQ. dwc_otg.fiq_fix_enable controls whether the FIQ is actually installed/set up or not. Without it you are effectively left with the standard IRQ handlers doing all the work. This is enabled by default, and using this setting is recommende...

I have no idea what version of kernel RaspBMC runs. Can you try with default Raspbian? You should at least get either a successful boot or a crash printout.

(fyi XBMC can be installed from Raspbian, just takes a few extra commands)

[Mod: I moved your post to the Troubleshooting forum as you have trouble with something.] Your problem is unlikely to be power-related as you have powered the HDD from 2 different sources and experienced the same result. Your HDD also resets and "comes back" only after heavy file usage whi...

Most fans will have a pull-up resistor to the +v supply line and switch it down to 0V, or have just an open-collector output which switches "on" at certain points. You fan looks like it has a pullup resistor, given that the rotation signal has enough juice to drive an LED. If you interface...

I have 4 Pis running on 4Gb Class 4 cards. Is there a word for that? Alnumeration? The "speed" of an SD card really doesn't have much bearing on how fast the Pi actually performs. Class 10 has better sustained write speeds than class 4, but if you're running an operating system on it then ...

I've managed 7 pendrives at once, and then ran out of hub ports. Slightly different to HDDs with big spinning power-hungry motors, but the principle is the same. Just be mindful that your total data bandwidth is going to be limited to a single USB2.0 bus speed of 480Mbit/s (on a good day with a foll...

Welcome! Your kit has a preloaded SD card with a very, very old kernel + firmware. Lots of things have been fixed since that SD card was written more than a year ago. This is something that NOOBS was specifically created for. You should take that SD card and plug it into a PC/laptop with SD card rea...

Your umask/dmask is set to disallow group/everyone write access. If you change the fstab options umask to 0000 / dmask to 0000 then it should work, but let everyone access to everything. vfat isn't particularly useful with file permissions - it does not allow for unix style uid/gid except globally. ...

Can you post the output of mount

you could install smartmon tools sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install smartmontools Smartmontools most often doesn't work on USB hard disks. The USB to sata / pata bridges inside external HDD caddies typically do not pass through the necessary commands for SMART because they abstract the drive ...

dmesg prints out the contents of the kernel log buffer. The kernel log starts at boot time and will print to the screen (so you can see if anything broke or the machine crashed) until the normal boot process stops the output from printing. The log will still fill up, but only in memory. The buffer w...

Don't really understand this. One of the common things to do with the Pi (apart from create an xbmc media centre) is to use it as a NAS drive. People say they have done this using the Raspbian Wheezy distro which is exactly what I am using. However, the truth is that Raspbian apparently uses a non-...

The error message "filesystem is read-only" does exactly what it says on the tin. You are using a filesystem that has no documentation publicly available as to the internal workings and therefore the default Linux driver will have read-only support in case it encounters something it doesn'...

What happens if you do this: a) Put dwc_otg.speed=1 in cmdline.txt b) Boot with the codec plugged in c) Unplug the device after the pi appears to "hang"? I've got something of a similar flavour on my desk - Behringer UCA202, which doesn't suffer from this problem. Bus 001 Device 004: ID 08...

A USB device failing, or the USB driver failing usually results in either - Kernel panic (no reboot, unless you have either panic=10 on the commandline or the watchdog set up) - Device becoming unresponsive, which may or may not have associated syslog spam - USB in general breaking and becoming unre...

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