Comment on Local homeserver suddenly not responsive to SSH but can be pinged
Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days agoAre you powering the spinning disc off the pi? High draw can cause funky stuff too.
Any under voltage warnings?
Comment on Local homeserver suddenly not responsive to SSH but can be pinged
Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days agoAre you powering the spinning disc off the pi? High draw can cause funky stuff too.
Any under voltage warnings?
gedfromgont@piefed.ca 4 days ago
Yes, disk is powered via USb. I had however a different disk before that was separately powered and I think I also ran into this issue.
Where would I see under voltage warnings? I kind of doubt this is it because for months everything is fine, this sounds like it would cause issues more regularly.
Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
The under voltage might just be in the TTY 1 or whichever is the main console when you plug a monitor in.
I think it’s two different issues that are compounding, one being the maybe a bit too high power draw from the exterior drive, and the second being the different power sources being funky. The vexing part was the infrequency.
Sorry I can’t be more useful with diagnostics, my problems all went away when I went with a low power USB drive IE a USB SSD.
gedfromgont@piefed.ca 4 days ago
Oh no worries. I wrote this post with no expectations whatsoever since I myself have no clue about this.
I’ll make a note on checking power consumption, also when I am planning to buy the next drive, which won’t be for a while though. Until then I will just make sure to do regular backups.