RetroPie USB Rom Service

shanet94

I have installed RetroPie on a Odroid-C0 using this link: https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Odroid the install went well and almost everything worked as it should. I have tinkered with this for days and my google searching is running out of ideas for search terms :) The only thing that does not work is the RetroPie USB Rom Service. I have a USB drive that is formatted to fat32 and has one folder in root called retropie. When I put the usb drive into the Odroid it does not flash or do anything, it does not create any folders as it should.

In shell i noticed that df -h does not show the usb drive if emulation station is running. If i just have the desktop running I can see the usb drive in the list of mounted drives. Not sure if that means anything or not. Using command dmesg i get the following snippet on the USB Drive:

[ 38.270439@3] usb 1-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 7 using dwc_otg
[ 38.372734@3] usb-storage 1-1.1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 38.373253@3] scsi1 : usb-storage 1-1.1:1.0
[ 39.095736@3] RxIdleAnt=MAIN_ANT
[ 39.546544@3] scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access SMI USB DISK 1100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
[ 39.548489@3] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 15974400 512-byte logical blocks: (8.17 GB/7. 61 GiB)
[ 39.549101@3] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 39.549114@3] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
[ 39.549724@3] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] No Caching mode page found
[ 39.549891@3] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 39.562500@3] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] No Caching mode page found
[ 39.562674@3] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 39.571499@3] sda:
[ 39.575588@3] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] No Caching mode page found
[ 39.575816@3] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 39.582352@3] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk

No idea where go from this point so figured I would as the gurus :) Any help is apprecaited as I am at my knowledge's limit (which is not much!!)

Regards
Shane

edmaul69

@shanet94 there is a way to turn usb rom service on and off.

shanet94

Hi thanks for teh reply. I have actually tried it in various ways. From the wiki it say "retropie"
https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Transferring-Roms

but yes i have tried it every way possible. I can easily transfer roms thru samba but it the fact it does not work and i wanted it to be 100% :)

edmaul69

@shanet94 i cant remember if the usb rom service was in retropie setup or somewhere else, but have you tried turning it on or off in there?

edmaul69

@edmaul69 i uninstalled it once and couldnt get the hard drive to even work at all on the pie even through ftp after uninstalling and reinstalling so dont do that.

BuZz

the usbromservice may not work - it's designed for Raspbian not Ubuntu.

Easiest way to load roms is over the network - enable samba or so.

shanet94

@edmaul69 I have enabled and disabled removed and reinstalled thru the retropie setup menu.

@BuZz would it possibly work if i installed debian?

BuZz

I've not tested Debian on the odroid and you will likely miss packages required.

The USB Rom Service isn't required for retropie - just use another method to copy your roms across.

YetiManCol

Hi, sorry I'm really new to all of this. I have checked for solutions on here but can't find any.
I have a Raspberry Pi 2 model B 1GB an im also having the same issue nothing will write onto the usb drive from the rapberry pi.
I downloaded retropi off your main site onto a formatted SD card an used Win32 to write it onto the card.
I've tried a coulpe of differnet usb drives formatted to FAT32.
They have a folder inside named retropi. When i put the usb into my Pi it fashes a couple of times, I've left it for about 5 mins as suggested to try an make sure.
When I check the stick nothing has been writen onto it from the Pi.
Any help would be much appreciated thanks in advance.

shanet94

@YetiManCol it needs a root folder on the USB named

retropie

not retropi

YetiManCol

@shanet94 Thanks I'll try that in the morning :)

YetiManCol

@shanet94 It was that simple just a small oversite of the spelling.
Thanks for the help I'ts much appreciated :)

shanet94

@YetiManCol now if we can get mine to work :P

YetiManCol

@shanet94 unfortunately I'm a little dim when it comes to these types of things. I'd love to be able to help but I feel at this point a chocolate tea pot would be more help :) thanks again for your help.