Please answer the question: is it safe to draw power from USB or users should use the powered hubs instead. I have a Pi3B+ with a WD PiDrive powered from one of the Pi's USB port. I switch it out for other Pis fairly regularly, so it gets shut down, disconnected, reconnected, and rebooted ...
NFS is a very good system, but it is completely useless because no one can assist me in setting the thing up. Wasted my money buying the pi with pidrive.
There is a program package named scamp... pi@pidrive:~ $ apt-cache search scamp libscamperfile0 - file access library for scamper's binary dump format libscamperfile0-dev - development headers for scamper's binary dump file access library scamp ...
... card fails, doesn't mean that the Pi has failed. I've also not had any issues with booting from an HDD or SSD, but I've only used one HDD (a 314GB PiDrive) and a handful of SSDs. Honestly then (other than heat) mine is running fine for now so I might just grab a Flirc and wait for the Pi4 before ...
One thing I would draw your attention to is the WD PiDrive Cable, if you can find one. https://thepihut.com/products/western-digital-pidrive-cable?variant=25687541512 I'm not sure they're still in production (the PiDrive itself isn't I don't think) ...
... is). I thought of it as upgrading from a Pi3B to a Pi3B+ but it was just a matter swapping the new board into the case, hooking up the HDD (314GB PiDrive) and booting it.
... registatrion at a convention. Pi2Bv1.1 boards plus 19" monitors, keyboards, and mice. 7. Various test configurations... A Pi3B+ booting from a WD PiDrive. A CM3L set in a WD SATA adapter that boots from a 60GB SSD. Assorted Pis set up to demonstrate different models. A Pi2Bv1.1 with a SenseHAT. ...
... Raspberry Pi B+/2B Case There are even Pi specific options like the Suptronics X820 and X850 storage expansion boards and the Western Digital PiDrive, but it's often cheaper to buy the generic devices (the USB3-SATA3 adapter in that last picture cost less than $10). So lots of options other ...
I don't know whether the USB data part of the cable is connected to the USB power. I suppose I could try connecting data only and then power to the pi to see if that worked. If it was that easy I don't think they would have produced this complicated cable in the first place! For a long while the US...
That's definitely overkill! Moses, I'm in the UK. I know one end of a soldering iron from the other (you only make that mistake the once) - but would prefer to find a solution which didn't require surgery to the Pi. The current cable (see picture in posts above) isn't a typical "Y" cable - it has 1)...
Hi all, We had a power outage the other day, which my pi didn't like at all! Is anyone able to suggest a UPS which will: + keep the pi and WD PiDrive Foundation Edition hard drive working long enough to survive short glitches without needing to reboot + when battery getting low, to shut down ...
... and another different Y cable to inject power in from both UPS and the supply?? Current cabling: Y Splitter from 3A WD PSU, one leg goes to the WD PiDrive and the other to the Pi. The full size USB is for the data connection. <images of cables here!> New cabling: Y joiner, taking power from 3A ...
Don't know if this is any value to you, but I have a PiJuice UPS. I tried to use it on my Pi with PiDrive and PiDrive cable. Apparently not possible. With no SD card in the Pi (it normally boots from the PiDrive) and the PiJuice plugged in, I couldn't get it to boot. With ...
If you're happy to make it yourself: http://www.astounding.org.uk/ian/raspi-ups/index.html (that's my web site). Note that it's pretty crude with respect to whether the battery is low - it just estimates battery current capacity on the basis of how long it has been charging or discharging, according...
Looks like the ideal diode present in prior models of Pi was removed from the 3B+. My 3B+ does backfeed from the GPIO to the micro-USB, while a 3B I tested does not.
Regards,
-Moses
Yes, I think that's right. Will edit my earlier post.
... and another different Y cable to inject power in from both UPS and the supply?? Current cabling: Y Splitter from 3A WD PSU, one leg goes to the WD PiDrive and the other to the Pi. The full size USB is for the data connection. https://www.wdc.com/content/dam/wdc/website/products/personal/wdlabs/photography/02_WDLabs_PiDriveCableKit_3A_US.jpg.imgw.1000.1000.jpg ...
Looks like the ideal diode present in prior models of Pi was removed from the 3B+. My 3B+ does backfeed from the GPIO to the micro-USB, while a 3B I tested does not.
Hmmm - the official WD supply I have is 3A, and I get occasional lightning bolts with that when I have no other peripherals than the wd drive, and with the pi not working hard on anything other than periodic internet accesses and a little bit of read-write to the drive based on what it reads. I'm n...
A UPS on the 5v GPIO will indeed backfeed power to the microusb connector and on to anything else that is there. Doesn't it depend on the Pi model? From the 1B+ onwards (so 1A+, 1B+, 2B, 3B, 3B+) there is a perfect diode which should prevent backfeeding power from GPIO to microUSB. This is not pres...
A UPS on the 5v GPIO will indeed backfeed power to the microusb connector and on to anything else that is there. Doesn't it depend on the Pi model? From the 1B+ onwards (so 1A+, 1B+, 2B, 3B, 3B+ ) there is a perfect diode which should prevent backfeeding power from GPIO to microUSB. This is not pre...