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      2 Pi4 questions
      Help and Support • splash screen external hdd pi4 b • • bc320  

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      @bc320 I'm with you on this. With such a versatile machine like the Pi (any model) you don't know what you'll be using it some years into the future. Furthermore, Retropie runs on Linux which uses free memory to buffer I/O operations to speed up file access etc. You can see the memory allocation with the command free -h.
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      2 different for roms?
      General Discussion and Gaming • external hdd • • bc320  

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      @bc320 you can, it will require you manually change those paths in your es_systems.cfg file though.
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      External Hard Drive Issue
      Help and Support • lag psx emulation external hdd external hard d • • KnightZ87  

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      @KnightZ87 Have a look at this article about hdparm! There are many settings you can tweak! Tune Your Hard Disk with hdparm: http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Features/Tune-Your-Hard-Disk-with-hdparm You could also set the sleep/standby timer to a longer time! Change hard drive's sleep/standby mode timer to reduce power consumption: https://linuxconfig.org/change-hard-drive-s-sleep-standby-mode-timer-to-reduce-power-consumption Spin Down and Manage Hard Drive Power on Raspberry Pi https://www.htpcguides.com/spin-down-and-manage-hard-drive-power-on-raspberry-pi/
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      External Boot in my image
      Help and Support • boot problem external hdd boot config boot crash boot from hdd • • MPlay  

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      @Clyde said in External Boot in my image: @MPlay Thank you for sharing your solution. you are welcome, my next step is set retropie to stream my game play (if possible in net play mode) in my youtube channel. thank you and other friends for support.
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      Slow writing to external HDD
      Help and Support • slow external hdd savestate hdd • • pamput  

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      @mitu said in Slow writing to external HDD: copying ROMs over the network Yes and no. The copy over the network is quite slow (roughly 200KBps), but not as slow. But if it's a power issue, it might still make kind of sense, since when I copy stuff over usually I'm not playing. Still, the difference in speed even here is really drastic (a snes savestate is just a couple of megs, and it still takes 20ish seconds). does it draw power from the Pi or has it's own power source From the PI, I assumed since I was using the original Pi charger the board would be able to provide enough juice, I'll try with an external powered one and let you know.
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      Power Brownout
      Help and Support • power supply external hdd power problem • • Urko948  

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      @urko948 Use the official Raspberry Pi power adapter or whatever the Raspberry guys recommend.
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      Universal XML Scraper images not showing up on ES
      Help and Support • scraper external hdd universal xml scraper neewbie • • MrSkyle  

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      @steptoe Precisely! I have been setting up my Pi2 for almost a year now and it's been quite a bumpy but rewarding ride. Bumpy because I'm not remotely tech-savy and know diddly-squat about Linux, but rewarding for the experience in itself: building the romsets, configuring emulators, choosing ES themes and now scraping roms... seeing it all come together as something that I could only dream of as a teenager is truly heartwarming. Very soon it will be finally ready to simply plug and play! :)
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      Running Roms Directly From USB HD (4TB) Not Showing In RP
      Help and Support • retropie emulationstaion usb drive cfg external hdd • • lordkramGB  

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      @lordkramgb please fill out https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first
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      Cares with the storage option
      Help and Support • external hdd • • VahnXDean  

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      @mitu Ok, so i will bought a 3.0 External HD to at least transfer the games as fast as possible from my PC to the HD. But i won't have any gain when RPI is readind the data on the HD, since RPI's port is 2.0 right? btw, there is no compatibility problem if the HD is 3.0 and the RPI is 2.0, right?
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      Help with Retropie Install on Linux
      Help and Support • linux retropiesetup external hdd dual boot roms folder • • retrocraze  

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      @retrocraze The manual method of using USB as ROM source should work.
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      4TB external and piroms
      Help and Support • retropie external hdd piroms • • Riot1913  

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      Reload the image and do what @lostless said.
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      Long Savestate USB Drive
      Help and Support • external hdd savestates • • TitQuentin  

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      I fixed my problem with the Y cable. The savestate are more faster, but it long.... So I have mounted my external hard drive manually by editing the fstab. All works but with Y cable only.
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      Pi Drive Setup / Add Roms to USB device
      Help and Support • installation usb drive external hdd usbmount pidrive • • dita  

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      Thanks for your assistance. From the link you gave I used FAT32formatter, it appears to have worked. I got some error messages from the program, but it seems to be working ok.
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      Problem with external USB drive (not being recognized by ES)
      Help and Support • external hdd not recognised • • Pupsenlalala  

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      @herb_fargus Thanks for all your work. Everything was working before I update the script and everything. Maybe you could look into it some times? the USB feature is so great, especially with all the ISOs for the systems. Maybe something must have broken the feature. It was working with the plain 4.2 image. (though, I had some issues at the boot up which said that it could not mount my hdd but it still showed all roms and mounted it properly).
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      samba reconfiguration to hdd??
      Help and Support • retropie samba external hdd • • darkbibble  

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      @darkbibble here's the module code. https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/blob/master/scriptmodules/supplementary/samba.sh#L31
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      Storing Kodi movies on separate USB drive than roms mount?
      Help and Support • kodi usb drive external hdd automatic mount • • ezeitgeist  

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      @DigitalMonkey Oh, that is sweet! Thanks. Sorry, I thought it would just be more complicated!
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      External drive not detected
      Help and Support • external hdd ext4 • • anttaz  

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      @steptoe I use a Seagate 1TB backup drive (was available in Argos for a steal of £50), run through the on-board USB ports and it works perfectly. Thanks, I forgot to preface that external hard drives with Laptop sized 2.5" hard drives in them will probably work with the RPi USB ports but Desktop sized 3.5" hard drives will typically not work.
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      Cannot expand size of drive on external storage (pidrive)
      Help and Support • external hdd pidrive boot from hdd cant expand st sda2 not sd car • • infernusamongus  

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      @infernusamongus hey did u fix the problem did u expand ur external hdd
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      Retropie Autoload Roms to Different Path?
      Help and Support • external hdd thumbdrive transfers autocopy • • GoodOneSam  

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      Attract mode
      Help and Support • attract mode external hdd • • bear34jm  

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