I use the recalbox in my Raspberry Pi Zero W with my wireless Dualshock 3. It works great.

But I tried to connect my external hard drive to watch some movies on Kodi and when I connect the external hard drive to the usb, the system restarts.

When it's booted back, the DualShock doesn't work anymore. I need to remove the hard drive, connect the controller with the cable and it starts to work and then, when I remove the cable from the controller, it works wireless. But when I connect the hard drive back, the system reboots again.

I thought that a USB hub might solve my problem, but the Dualshock doesn't work when it's connected with the cable, while i'm using the usb hub.

Is there anything I can do to solve that?