USB Drive- retropie-mount

[Recordspinner]

So I just installed Retropie (running it on a Pi 3) from the image on the main website. Now I want to use retropie-mount with my 32gb USB drive. So I plug in the drive (with folder named retropie-mount and formatted to exFAT), wait 5 minutes, plug it back into my computer, and nothing has changed. I have enabled the usbromservice tool, and it still has not worked. Any help at all would be appreciated, as I am new to emulation. Thanks!
Raspberry Pi 3
Version 4.8
Xbox 360 controller + five below USB drive

[windg]

Try to restart RetroPie with the usb plugged in.

[Recordspinner]

@windg
Ok, I did that, how long should I wait?

[Ashpool]

@Recordspinner as you have said that this is a fresh install, that shouldn't take long (the ~/RetroPie folder should be IIRIR somewhat in the 25-50MB range???). If your USB Media has no optical feedback for its r/w-access, i would say with waiting e.g. 5 minutes after emulationstation is up, you should be on the over paranoid safe route here ;]

[Recordspinner]

@Recordspinner Waited 15 Minutes, No Luck

[Ashpool]

@Recordspinner Just to be sure: You've created the folder 'retropie-mount' (not sure whether exfat is case sensitiv (like the *nix filesystems or ntfs [1]. Even if I think that it isn't, just to be safe here stay in lowercase). You pluged it into the Pi and booted up RetroPie, waitet 15 minutes, turned the system down, pluged the stick into a PC and the retropie-mount folder was still empty?
Is the drive listed if you boot into ES (with the media pluged in), quit with F4 and type lsusb in the terminal? Or if you have no KBD to connect to the Raspi and haven't configured SSH access so far, can you access the media by using the FileManager from within RetroPie/ES and navigating to /media/ and trying out the ~usb &| usb# "subfolders" there?

1: Just as a sidenote: since ages (nt times) windows can even be configured to be case-sensitiv on ntfs pathes.

P.S.: In fact I am just setting up a fresh install on my raspberry pi 3B+ and neither did I had to explicity enable the usb-rom service, nor did I anything else besides inserting the SD-Card with the fresh image, plugin in the USB Stick with my old retropie-mount folder and it was recognized right after the 2nd boot (1st one was the automated expand FS one) - tried now with another usb stick (ntfs formated) and an empty retropie-mount folder, and in fact the subfolder/items where created and accessable right after the start of ES from within it's filemanager (just a few seconds) [Edit: Of course checked via the /media/~usb/retropie-mount path and not by just looking into ~/RetroPie]).

[Recordspinner]

@Ashpool It does not appear in File Manager.

[Ashpool]

@Recordspinner Ok, then the problem is most propably, that your media doesn't become mounted and therefore the USB transfer daemon cannot do it's magic. If you are not able to connect a keyboard or connect via SSH I don't know how to go further from here. Can you try another USB Media and see if that gets recognized/gets mounted under /media (Be it FAT32/NTFS/ext4 formated doesn't matter, what is accessible by Debian is the limit here), do you have a free SD Card to try out a regular raspian OS install and see if the media gets mounted there (Ok, needs a KBD+Mouse attached)?

[Recordspinner]

@Ashpool All my other USB devices work. Should I get a new flash drive?

[Recordspinner]

@Recordspinner I don't know about another flash drive working, but mice and keyboards seem to work

[Ashpool]

@Recordspinner Ok - so what is listed if you switch to the terminal (quiting ES with F4) and by typing lsusb?
Is the Stick pluged directly into the Pi or via a hub (even if it's integrated in the casing (e.g. retroflags NESPI one) (if yes, try it without the hub - if not and if possible, try it with one or with an extention cable [1]). Have you tried another Filesystem on the stick (just for testing)?

1: believe it or not - on my Fujitsu PC some USB sticks (Transcend/Agfa) aren't recognized if inserted directly, by using an extention cable they are (I guess it has to do with the "Form-Factor" of casing and stick).

[Recordspinner]

@Ashpool I'll try using an extension cable.

[Recordspinner]

@Ashpool Did not work, even with extension.

[Ashpool]

@Ashpool said in USB Drive- retropie-mount:

@Recordspinner Ok - so what is listed if you switch to the terminal (quiting ES with F4) and by typing lsusb?

If the device is not listed there, then maybe others may have some debuging ideas at hand for the moment.

P.S.: Sorry, I am off for now: strange behaviour on my "fresh install" -> lr-cores that should (and do on my other up2date installs), don't offer the save/load state option in the retroarch menu - sigh...

[Recordspinner]

@Ashpool Thanks for the help.