USB drive not showing in file manager

glycolate

I installed batocera on an ssd. it’s 240gb because I dont know how many games I’ll load but that should be plenty of space.I don’t want to run something directly from a usb drive, they aren’t made for that.

I formatted a usb drive as ntfs as i have some roms that are over the 4.2gb fat32 limit. windows can obviously see the drive just fine, batocera cannot. I pressed F1 to get the file manager and nothing shows up when i plug the usb drive in. it can however see my windows ssds.

I tried searching but all i find are solutions for batocera being installed on a usb drive and trying to use a second usb drive to load games. and a lot of network share stuff.

not sure why batocera can’t even see that a usb drive was plugged in.

Atari

The reason you’re not finding much is because it really is just “plug in the USB and then it appears on the sidebar”. So, maybe there’s a hardware issue at play here?

Could you monitor your dmesg file for when you plug in the USB and see what the Linux kernel is doing with it? Maybe it’s failing to mount or something.