Loading roms from USB harddrive
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Format the external drive with guiformat
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@joyrider3774 I am doing this but when i double click expand to hardrive it can't find my pi even though I am connected to it via putty
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@LaneG22 if your connected using putty you can runn the commands from the cmd manually more specifically getting the sh script from that url using curl chmodding it and then executing it, that's basically all those cmd files do get a script and run it but if your already logged in the pi using ssh you can do it from there also.
Looking at the cmd (batch) file. this is what you need to execute in ssh
"curl http://eazyhax.com/pitime/expand_to_external_drive.sh | bash" without quotes, your pi needs to be connected to the internet for this to work not just your local home network -
@joyrider3774 What is wrong if I get the cannot resolve host easyhax.com error
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@LaneG22 Did you manually type in the commandline ? copy and pasting it over ssh is easier - it's not easyhax but eazyhax
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it either means your pi is not connected to the internet (only your local netwerk if you can ssh) or that the website is down. Since it is not down for me i can click on the url and see the script it probably means your pi is not internet connect or blocked somewhere with your rother or something. it could also be that at the moment when you last tried it the website / domain was down so can be related to dns settings as well (on your router) / ISP.
ah and indeed just seeing it now it's not easyhax.com but eazyhax.com the url so mistyped indeed ;) just copy paste the line into putty / ssh you do that by rightclicking on the putty window if yousing that
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@joyrider3774 ok I got the link to work but it says that my external drive is not on there and it is not mounting any suggestions? Sorry if this is getting annoying.
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@LaneG22 did you format as NTFS and did you created a piroms folder on it ? if you did not do that it won't recognize the drive only NTFS + needs a piroms folder.
If that's the case are you sure your pi recognizes the drive ? ar there any /dev/sda devices being shown ? if not it could be you don't have enough power to power up your drive (if it's not self powered) if the the hard drive have it's own power supply or you use an usb hub or know you got enough power in your adapter for the pi then it's probably the ntfs / piroms folder that's problem.
For example before i had bought the pidrive i tried a few harddisks i had laying around connected directly to the pi without any special usb hub or with the harddrives having a seperate power supply only one actually worked. And i used the official 3 amp adaptor for my pi.
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I like this feature.
Would it be possible to do something similar, but using network connection to a NAS drive instead? -
Little off-topic. Do you guys see any difference in the boot speed while having roms on external Drive? I got setup with 128gb USB flash drive and it takes good 5 minutes to get to the emulation station. Same setup run from 64Gb micron SD card (exactly same number of roms, config files and scraped pictures) takes maybe 1.5 min for Pi to get to emulation station.
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i'm using attract mode, starts much faster than emulationstation so can't really tell
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@LaneG22 to get es to pick up roms watch this
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