OSMC crashes whenever USB HDD is plugged in

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Hi, please forgive my noobiness. I just got my first raspberry pi (2 B+) and I want to setup OSMC to play media off my external USB hard drive. The problem is the hard drive appears to make OSMC crash whether I plug it in before powering up or I plug it in afterwards. Either way it just crashes and I am unable to interpret the reason for the crash. I am using a 2A 5V power adapter.

I have logs (hope I have done this correctly): http://paste.osmc.io/yenolikoqo

I should mention that this is my multipurpose hard drive and it has multiple partitions, some NTFS, some FAT32, some linux and a grub bootloader. I use it for a few different things and I want my pi to boot OSMC off SD card as normal but also let me add media from the NTFS partition on my external HDD to Kodi.

Thanks in anticipation.

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it would appear that adding max_usb_current=1 to /boot/config.txt fixed it!

I believe this increases the max power output from the USB ports on the pi from 600mA to 1.2A. I am not sure why it has to be increased manually, maybe this is a power saving feature.

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It’s because enabling that setting if your power adaptor is insufficient will actually cause problems. So it is off by default and should only be turned on if you have a good 2A adaptor.