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Ive tried on both of my misters to run my psx stuff off an external hard drive and i get nothing, i have in external drive in a folder called PSX.

My MegaCD/PC/TG16 stuff all work fine from the same external hard drive.

Any ideas what i might be doing wrong? I have the bios renamed and in the folder, and the games run fine if i move to my SD card.

Have you tried having Games\PSX on the external hard drive? That is what I do. I know cores in general should support just having f.ex. PSX directly in the root, but it has begun being assumed the folders for games for each core is in a games folder.

That is how I setup mine. I have games on my USB SSD and I have the cores on the SD card. The bios I also have in the USB0:\Games\PSX folder

ISO's / ROMs go into the /games/PSX directory just like Caldor said.

You should also place the BIOS in there named as boot.rom, and maybe a few blank memory cards if you want to save.
I've named mine Card001Slot1.mcd and Card002Slot2.mcd for example.

Works just fine for me. As noted, make sure your PSX folder is in a "games" folder just like it would be on the SD card. That's probably all you're missing.

I've been using my external SSD exclusively for over a year with the MiSTer, and the PSX nightly builds work fine with it as well. Like the other posters, I have the games in the games/PSX directory. Also, would you happen to have game folders on both the SD card and the external drive? Could there be a conflict between the two?

i tried putting in games folder but still get the error in the corner.

Have tried both with and without games on external and internal folders only.

the directory tree in which to store the games should look like one of these two:

SDCard:

/media/fat/games/PSX

HDD / SSD:

/media/usb0/games/PSX

Store the games in the PSX folder for example, Castlevania Symphony of the Night stored on one of the drives looks like this:

/media/usb0/games/PSX/Castlevania - Symphony of the Night/

This folder contains the track files and the cue file for the game itself.
At the moment as far as i'm aware only .bin/.cue files work.

CHD support is right around the corner. Happened a lot faster than expected.

Phaedrus wrote: ↑Sun Feb 20, 2022 4:20 am CHD support is right around the corner. Happened a lot faster than expected.

That sounds good, I was looking for disc images the other day, and on my Playstation Classic USB I think they are CHD's.

Yeah probably worth waiting until that's all in place for CHD then. Saves a lot of space.

iam also having these problems using chd sometimes mister see's the external hard drive and works and sometime it doesnt .

CHD support was added last Sunday I think it was.

Semi-unrelated but I don't put any roms on the SD or an externally connected drive. All roms are mounted via the CIFS script. It works great even for large PSX bin/cue.

Mentioning it here because I don't think many folks know about it and the need for networked or external drives will become more important with PSX and soon'ish Saturn support.

I have 3 questions:
* Does the BIOS "boot.rom" need to be in the CIFS mounted folder as well ?
* Do you mount it inside a "games" folder eg: /media/cifs/games/PSX or /media/cifs/PSX ?
* How do people do this for usb eg: /media/usbX/games/PSX or /media/usbX/PSX ?

/media/usb0/games/PSX/boot.rom

is it safe to do an hard reset with the mounted hd without umounting it first?

misterious wrote: ↑Sat Feb 26, 2022 8:22 pm is it safe to do an hard reset with the mounted hd without umounting it first?

It shouldn't be a problem as it is mounted as read only.

held wrote: ↑Fri Feb 25, 2022 8:11 pm I have 3 questions:
* Does the BIOS "boot.rom" need to be in the CIFS mounted folder as well ?
* Do you mount it inside a "games" folder eg: /media/cifs/games/PSX or /media/cifs/PSX ?
* How do people do this for usb eg: /media/usbX/games/PSX or /media/usbX/PSX ?

I use CIFS for the entire games directory. So that would include the boot.rom as well as all other console and computer roms. This is transparent to all the various scripts found on the Mister. It all just works.

Heh I wonder why I did not dive in the CIFS scripts myself, thanks for the pointer.