USB Drives Not Connecting

[mitu]

What kind of USB drive ? Is it a simple flash drive, or an external USB drive (SSD/SATA) ? If it's an external drive, does it have its own power source ?
What kind of power supply are you using ?

[Recordspinner]

@mitu Simple thumb drives, no power source.

[sirhenrythe5th]

@Recordspinner said in USB Drives Not Connecting:

I've tried to connect a USB drive to add ROMS, but according to File Manager

If it is just about adding roms and you are using a filemanager...why dont you just copy the roms to your pi without using an USB-Stick?

[Recordspinner]

@sirhenrythe5th I'd like to keep games on a seperate device, as my SD card only has 8gb.

[Recordspinner]

@Recordspinner I tried using Automount, and that didn't work.

[mitu]

@Recordspinner said in USB Drives Not Connecting:

Simple thumb drives, no power source.

What kind of power supply are you using on the Pi ?
Exit EmulationStation (or log in via SSH to your RetroPie system) and run

dmesg -w

then plug in the USB stick. See if you get any messages and post them here - the USB detection should be logged on to your terminal.
You can stop the command by pressing Ctrl+C.

[Recordspinner]

@mitu I'll check when I get home.
EDIT: I just remembered. It's a micro USB cable plugged into a big charging brick with 1 outlet. It came with the Kano kit that this setup is based on.

[Recordspinner]

@mitu I'll try that.

[Recordspinner]

@mitu it said it attached scsi removable disc.

[mitu]

So the USB drive is detected, but I'd need to see the actual messages that show up to see if the partitions are properly detected.

[Recordspinner]

@mitu I'm going to try manually mounting it real quick.

[Recordspinner]

@Recordspinner Didn't work, renamed files and I had to reinstall Retropie