the input port of a hub shouldn't backfeed if it follows USB specs.
The USB-port on my HP ZBook even backfeeds the thing, and that's about the most expensive piece of hardware I have lying around :lol: (well, appart from the beefed up Lenovo thinkstation at the other end of the table, obviously :shifty
EDIT: Oh wait, I realised that I got you backwards there... You meant to plug power and data of the HD into the hub, and then feed the data from the hub to the pi.
Huh, I guess our electronics engineer will have a bit of thinkng on his hand when he gets back. The whole stuff will be powered by the PoE-to-USB converter he developed, so he'll have to determine how save the whole setup is when we plug all that stuff in.
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Servers that return errors well formated and styled as HTML are great... unless you're testing with curl. :dry: