Problem transferring roms to thumb drive

[mitu]

If you're starting the File Manager, do you see the psx folder in the /home/pi/extra folder ? What's the output of the mount command ?

[Drdave79]

@mitu I'm using WinSCP, but not sure how I can see the USB drive from that? If I pull the USB drive and plug it into the PC I can see them. How can I see the output of the mount command? Do you need me to do something from the Pi itself?

[mitu]

@Drdave79 said in Problem transferring roms to thumb drive:

I'm using WinSCP, but not sure how I can see the USB drive from that?

If the drive is mounted on /home/pi/extra, then browse that folder and see what's underneath.

How can I see the output of the mount command? Do you need me to do something from the Pi itself?

Doesn't WinSCP offers a way to run a remote command ? Just run mount and post the output.

[Drdave79]

@mitu

[mitu]

@Drdave79 I don't see the psx roms folder being mounted - if you manually execute the mount command from autostart.sh, does it give you an error ?

[Drdave79]

@mitu I'm sorry Mitu, I know you're trying to help and I appreciate it, but I'm going to need more help/instruction to answer your question. What do you want me to do exactly?

[mitu]

@Drdave79 Run the next command from WinSCP (copy the command and paste it there) just like you've run the previous mount command:

sudo mount -o bind /home/pi/extra/psx /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx

then restart EmulationStation and see if your PS1 games show up.

[Drdave79]

@mitu said in Problem transferring roms to thumb drive:

sudo mount -o bind /home/pi/extra/psx /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx

[mitu]

So, back to the 1st question - do you have a psx folder under /home/pi/extra ? The error seems to hint that there's no such folder.

[Drdave79]

@mitu On the usb drive, yes. /home/pi/extra/psx. All of the roms are in there.

[mitu]

Hm, I think I've got the command wrong. Try this:

sudo mount --bind /home/pi/extra/psx /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx

and restart EmulationStation. If that works, replace the mount command from autostart.sh accordingly and see if it works after a reboot.

#... rest of the commands from `autostart.sh`
sudo mount --bind  /home/pi/extra/psx /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx
emulationstation #auto

[Drdave79]

@mitu said in Problem transferring roms to thumb drive:

sudo mount --bind /home/pi/extra/psx /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx

Unfortunately still not working:

This is the USB drive path:

Also, after moving all of the roms to the USB drive, the home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx folder on the SD card is empty. Does that matter?

[mitu]

@Drdave79 said in Problem transferring roms to thumb drive:

Unfortunately still not working:

Try adding the command directly in autostart.sh.

Also, after moving all of the roms to the USB drive, the home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx folder on the SD card is empty. Does that matter?

No, it doesn't.

[Drdave79]

@mitu No change :(

This is where I got the UUID from. Assuming I got the 1808-1615 correct.

[mitu]

@Drdave79 said in Problem transferring roms to thumb drive:

Assuming I got the 1808-1615 correct.

Yes, that's correct - the output from the mount command showed that /home/pi/extra is correctly mounted from the external disc.

No idea why it's not working, the usbromservice uses a similar approach to mount the roms folder (i.e. mount --bind).

[Drdave79]

@mitu Alright. I appreciate your trying to help. I'll move the roms back to the sd card. Please let me know if you think of anything else.

Thanks again.