I have been trying to get raspyfi to work with a Seagate bus powered portable drive (1TB Backup Plus). It is formatted Fat32 and connected to a powered USB hub (which is connected via USB to my Pi). I have had XBMC running and successfully reading/playing from this drive (as formatted and connected) but no luck with any version of Raspyfi that I have tried. I have also had success with a self powered (dedicated power source) Seagate Drive with NTFS connected via a hub and connected directly to the Pi. Should I reformat the FAT 32 drive to NTFS? or try a different powered hub?

TIA

Not enough power from the bus for the drive to be plugged directly into pi. Will get a different powered hub.

Different hub did not solve the problem. dmesg fdisk returns:

[ 1.871362] dwc_otg: NAK holdoff enabled
[ 1.871372] dwc_otg: FIQ split fix enabled
[ 1.871394] Module dwc_common_port init
[ 1.871628] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver…
[ 1.882187] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 1.893532] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[ 1.903823] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 1.915568] bcm2835-cpufreq: min=700000 max=700000 cur=700000
[ 1.926906] bcm2835-cpufreq: switching to governor powersave
[ 1.937961] bcm2835-cpufreq: switching to governor powersave
[ 1.948967] cpuidle: using governor ladder
[ 1.958327] cpuidle: using governor menu
[ 1.967648] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
[ 1.979100] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
[ 1.988710] sdhci: Enable low-latency mode
[ 2.042550] mmc0: SDHCI controller on BCM2708_Arasan [platform] using platfor m's DMA
[ 2.055952] mmc0: BCM2708 SDHC host at 0x20300000 DMA 2 IRQ 77
[ 2.067228] Indeed it is in host mode hprt0 = 00021501
[ 2.082697] sdhci-pltfm: SDHCI platform and OF driver helper
[ 2.115057] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[ 2.152513] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[ 2.162174] TCP: cubic registered
[ 2.183418] mmc0: new high speed SDHC card at address e624
[ 2.194217] Initializing XFRM netlink socket
[ 2.212447] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 2.222242] mmcblk0: mmc0:e624 SU08G 7.40 GiB
[ 2.233065] Key type dns_resolver registered
[ 2.243074] mmcblk0: p1 p3
[ 2.251629] VFP support v0.3: implementor 41 architecture 1 part 20 variant b rev 5
[ 2.266178] registered taskstats version 1
[ 2.322598] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using dwc_otg
[ 2.335279] Indeed it is in host mode hprt0 = 00001101
[ 2.553233] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0424, idProduct=9512
[ 2.565750] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
[ 2.579594] hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
[ 2.589249] hub 1-1:1.0: 3 ports detected
[ 2.872735] usb 1-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using dwc_otg
[ 2.983268] usb 1-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=0424, idProduct=ec00
[ 2.995755] usb 1-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber =0
[ 3.011654] smsc95xx v1.0.4
[ 3.080161] mmc0: final write to SD card still running
[ 3.150130] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: register 'smsc95xx' at usb-bcm2708_usb-1 .1, smsc95xx USB 2.0 Ethernet, b8:27:eb:12:96:a6
[ 3.262789] usb 1-1.3: new high-speed USB device number 4 using dwc_otg
[ 3.374561] usb 1-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=05e3, idProduct=0608
[ 3.387296] usb 1-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, SerialNumber =0
[ 3.400356] usb 1-1.3: Product: USB2.0 Hub
[ 3.411391] hub 1-1.3:1.0: USB hub found
[ 3.421581] hub 1-1.3:1.0: 4 ports detected
[ 3.712914] usb 1-1.3.2: new high-speed USB device number 5 using dwc_otg
[ 3.854808] usb 1-1.3.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0bc2, idProduct=a013
[ 3.867694] usb 1-1.3.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumb er=1
[ 3.880958] usb 1-1.3.2: Product: Backup+ BK
[ 3.890890] usb 1-1.3.2: Manufacturer: Seagate
[ 3.901035] usb 1-1.3.2: SerialNumber: NA52MP0C
[ 3.913062] scsi0 : usb-storage 1-1.3.2:1.0
[ 4.002979] usb 1-1.3.4: new high-speed USB device number 6 using dwc_otg
[ 4.114540] usb 1-1.3.4: New USB device found, idVendor=05e3, idProduct=0608
[ 4.127355] usb 1-1.3.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, SerialNumb er=0
[ 4.140588] usb 1-1.3.4: Product: USB2.0 Hub
[ 4.151850] hub 1-1.3.4:1.0: USB hub found
[ 4.162322] hub 1-1.3.4:1.0: 4 ports detected
[ 4.923940] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access Seagate Backup+ BK 0409 PQ : 0 ANSI: 6
[ 4.939814] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 1953525167 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/93 1 GiB)
[ 4.956921] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 4.967756] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 4f 00 00 00
[ 4.968800] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, does n't support DPO or FUA
[ 5.385374] sda: sda2
[ 5.398714] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[ 13.092530] mmc0: Timeout waiting for hardware interrupt – cmd12.
[ 13.105902] mmcblk0: error -110 sending stop command, original cmd response 0 x900, card status 0x900
[ 13.787707] mmc0: final write to SD card still running
[ 23.732514] mmc0: Timeout waiting for hardware interrupt – cmd12.
[ 23.745997] mmcblk0: error -110 sending stop command, original cmd response 0 x900, card status 0x900
[ 23.887439] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p3): recovery complete
[ 23.900673] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p3): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. O pts: (null)
[ 23.915196] VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) on device 179:3.
[ 23.937778] devtmpfs: mounted
[ 23.947635] Freeing init memory: 132K
[ 25.342065] udevd[160]: starting version 175
[ 26.074037] bcm2708_i2c bcm2708_i2c.0: BSC0 Controller at 0x20205000 (irq 79) (baudrate 100k)
[ 26.275667] bcm2708_spi bcm2708_spi.0: master is unqueued, this is deprecated
[ 26.450723] bcm2708_spi bcm2708_spi.0: SPI Controller at 0x20204000 (irq 80)
[ 26.582717] bcm2708_i2c bcm2708_i2c.1: BSC1 Controller at 0x20804000 (irq 79) (baudrate 100k)
[ 30.472958] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p3): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
[ 30.913192] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p3): Mount option "nouser_xattr" will be removed by 3.5
[ 30.913192] Contact [email protected] if you think we should keep it .
[ 30.913192]
[ 30.954438] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p3): re-mounted. Opts: nouser_xattr,errors=remoun t-ro
[ 38.924547] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 39.330939] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 40.859857] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[ 40.875182] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xCDE 1
[ 45.995753] Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 [email protected]).
[ 53.494415] EXT4-fs (sda2): unable to read superblock
[ 53.527092] EXT4-fs (sda2): unable to read superblock
[ 53.553901] EXT4-fs (sda2): unable to read superblock
[ 53.583052] FAT-fs (sda2): bogus number of reserved sectors
[ 53.611381] FAT-fs (sda2): Can't find a valid FAT filesystem
[ 53.632093] FAT-fs (sda2): bogus number of reserved sectors
[ 53.661038] FAT-fs (sda2): Can't find a valid FAT filesystem
[ 53.683852] F2FS-fs (sda2): unable to read superblock
[ 77.728069] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xCDE 1
[ 88.832028] EXT4-fs (sda2): unable to read superblock
[ 88.855267] EXT4-fs (sda2): unable to read superblock
[ 88.866781] EXT4-fs (sda2): unable to read superblock
[ 88.881343] FAT-fs (sda2): bogus number of reserved sectors
[ 88.891662] FAT-fs (sda2): Can't find a valid FAT filesystem
[ 88.909303] FAT-fs (sda2): bogus number of reserved sectors
[ 88.919719] FAT-fs (sda2): Can't find a valid FAT filesystem
[ 88.932097] F2FS-fs (sda2): unable to read superblock
[ 92.632160] bcm2835-cpufreq: switching to governor ondemand
[ 92.642669] bcm2835-cpufreq: switching to governor ondemand

is there a problem with FAT32 drives? Should I reformat my prefered drive to NFTS?