Power on the Raspberry Pi is a tricky business. I think on the B+ they've
made it easier to deal with but it still cannot pass through a lot of
current. So a powered hub is necessary, as previous posters mentioned.
It does indeed backfeed into the Pi. I used thin stripes of electrical tape
to
I have used the same trick with success at least once, it working does
depend on the type of failure but yours sounds like the type that would
work, in my case I think I even mounted the partitions and just copied the
data. (rsync iirc)
2014-12-22 12:26 GMT+02:00 Amos Shapira
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Alex Shnitman alext...@gmail.com wrote:
Power on the Raspberry Pi is a tricky business. I think on the B+ they've
made it easier to deal with but it still cannot pass through a lot of
current. So a powered hub is necessary, as previous posters mentioned.
It
Mounting the partition could add a lot of unnecessary disk access and could
hang the system.
It's true that scanning the whole partition accesses every block on it as
opposed to the filesystem code knowing where the data really is, but the OP
seemed to suggest that the partition is pretty full,
