Install troubles on a 3TB disk

mk55 · 2019-07-12T17:34:58+00:00

Hi all! First of all thanks and kudos to all involved for this awesome project, i'm really loving it! Got my first install with 5.21 on a 320GB HDD and all...

BZZ

Dragu I understand what you said. However 'basic' is relative to point of view in this case of someone that knows what you're talking about. I did read your past post about shared win/batocera boot and understand where you're coming from.

mk55

Dragu

Thanks for taking the time, i understand the problem much better now!
It is indeed a FAT32 partition..

Also, by using a direct SATA connection i could remove both partitions easily and the drive is back to normal now.

NTLINUX

Hello I ran in to the same issue with a 2TB hard drive. I read this and I looked the problem logically.
I Found that if you can get G-parted to detect the Hard Drive after the install with Linux Slax/Mint etc.. simply convert the largest partition to EX3 then you are go to go…

When Map the //BAROCERA/share/ you well see all the free space well become available.
If G-Parted Reports errors try a different Linux Live Distribution.
I hope my 2 cents helps someone ..

dmanlfc

This is now fixed & should be in the next v30 beta

DMAN

blaze2051

this is not fix on the lastest 5.30 because im having the same issue

joinski

blaze2051

it is version 30 and not 5.30 (the naming has changed from 5.27.2 to 29, then 30 and next will be 31)

this issue will be fixed in 31

for version 30 you can do a workaround method by going into System Settings, Developer, Format A Drive and format your drive there. After a reboot you will be able to use the full capacity of your disk

Tnix

Hi all,

I’ve seen this thread and I think is related with my problem.

I’m trying to install Batocera 36 in an external M.2 NVMe 64 TB SSD USB. I think it’s a 4kn device (4096 bytes physical and logical sectors size). I’ve tried in several ways to change the logical sector size to 512 bytes to get UEFI boots but I think it’s hardcoded from factory and I cannot do anything.

Is there any solution to install and boot Batocera into without boot from any smaller USB device?

Thanks.

joinski

Tnix M.2 NVMe 64 TB SSD USB

what kind/model is it exactly? are you sure it is 64 TB?

BZZ

Tnix I have not been on the forum in ages but seeing 64TB in my inbox brought me back. 64TB seems like a lot for consumer, external SSD. I hope its not an Aliexprses scam ;-)

Tnix

Thanks for your answers.

Yes it’s bought at AliExpress (it’s a similar product, the original shop where I bought it are temporary closed: https://es.aliexpress.com/item/1005005188913454.html). Maybe could be a scam but I had coupons and the price and storage seemed good so why not try? :D

The info showed by the device is:

048d:1234 Integrated Technology Express, Inc. Chipsbank CBM2199 Flash Drive

Size reported by Gparted: 61.04 TiB , 67.1 TB

Maybe it could be reliableless but I’d like to try. Copying directly the Batocera .img file makes the device with an unrecognized partition table so I had to do it manually. Partitions in GPT mode are seen by several drive partition utilities but it cannot be seen by UEFI nor CSM so it cannot boot. I think because it’s a 4kn drive (4k physical and logical sector size) and UEFI nor CSM cannot boot with this.

I’m afraid that I’ll have to boot from another USB device … I dont’ know.

Thanks.

joinski

Tnix

It definitely is scam. You should ask the seller for a refund.
Your drive does not have 64TB because that is a huge amount of storage for such a cheap price and the biggest nvme ssd drive existing at the moment is 16TB i believe and costs several thousand dollars usually.
Your drive might not even have 1GB and that’s why you have issues with installing batocera on it.

BZZ

Tnix Sorry mate but joinski is 100% correct. Your drive is likely a ‘throw away’…. You will not get much out of it…

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