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You are both spot on, I was testing with 2 drives, I formatted one with just a folder called 'games' and that was the one that worked, tried the other one and it fails! Thanks everyone for your help with this, very much appreciated, saved my sanity and a few quid I would have spent next on a new PSU and external USB hub!

Some progress :) I rebuilt a new 8GB SD card using the older installer package release_20200122 and a bare bones of cores etc. and managed to get the TGFX16 core to see the disk so it looks like a config issue somewhere, now doing a full rebuild and upgrade, see if that fixes it. Thanks to you both for your input - interesting you haven't got NTFS ...

Forgot to add the directory listing if that helps: /media# cd usb0 /media/usb0# ls -l total 46285302 -rw-rw-rw- 2 root plugdev 1858076672 Mar 13 2018 2018-03-13-raspbian-stretch-lite.img -rw-rw-rw- 2 root plugdev 4381390772 Mar 2 2018 ArPiCadeFixup5.2.img.7z drw-rw-rw- 1 root plugdev 0 Oct 12 2018 'Attract Images' drw-rw-rw- 1 root plugdev 4096 Apr...

I've enabled SSH using the script, used Putty to connect and I can see the device using 'lsusb -v' and can browse the disk from the command line fine, could it be a permissions issue? These are the existing permissions, odd I can't get to the usb0 folder via FTP or from the Mister interface, it would point at a Linux issue rather than hardware. lsu...

It does, yes, I made sure contact was good and removed some of the oxidation on the pin it makes contact with, reflowed the solder on the power pins and still the same. Next thing to try is to eliminate the PSU as the issue. The frustrating thing is I can see the drive spin up and if you try Switch to USB in the Mister menu it shows the free space ...

Done some more troubleshooting, I get a green light on usb1, an orange light on usb5-usb7 but no lights on usb2 and usb3 yet the ports seem to work, very odd. I might reflow all solder joints just in case there's a dodgy connection somewhere.

Hi all, I'm having a bit of a nightmare trying to get an external hard drive to work. I have the ultimate mister case and USB board and cannot get an external hard disk to work with it. I have tried a portable 2.5 inch drive and that obviously wasn't getting enough power so I bought a 1TB portable 3.5 inch drive with a 12v power supply and it still...