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I have a raspberry pi that has an external drive that mounts via fstab. Sometimes the pi refuses to boot when the external drive doesn't spin up fast enough (albeit the drive is quite old). Is there any way to force the pi to force the drive?

Device - Raspberry Pi 3 OS - Raspbian Hard Disk - 1TB Portable Seagate External (No External Power Supply) Raspberry - Power supply Apple 10W Charger 5.1V 2.1A Mount Method - fstab (

/dev/sda1 /media/rfts auto noatime 0 0

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Probably it hasn't got enough power to spin up fast. There are two solutions:

  • Set max_usb_current=1 setting in /boot/config.txt
  • Use USB HUB with external power
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