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gedfromgont@piefed.ca 4 days agoYes, 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.