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Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 02:23:16 -0800
From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
Message-Id: <20121217102316.CA6EBB827@mail.bitblocks.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Raspberry Pi help
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On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:40:38 GMT Adrian McMenamin <adrianmcmenamin@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
> It seems my fundamental problem was one of power. Plainly the powered USB hub
> I was using was close to useless - or worse than that, delivered enough power
> to boot the RasPi but not enough to run any peripherals.

Rev 1 boards have polyfuses (labelled F1 and F2) with a large
voltage drop @ 500mA that creates such problems.  You can
short them (or better, use 1 ohm resistors) -- there is a post
or two about this on the pi forum.