Defect - USB NOT LOADING, shows SD card contents.

[Former user]

Original [issue 49](https://code.google.com/p/genplus-gx/issues/detail?id=49) created by jesusissin on 2009-10-15T01:11:31.000Z:

What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Plug in SD card 2. Plug in USB HDD drive. 3. Load Genesis Plus through Homebrew Channel. 4. Load New Game 5. Load from USB 6. Shows SD card's contents.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead? For the Contents of my /genplus/roms folder on my USB hard drive to show up, where all my zipped roms are. The boot.dol and shit is on my SD card. Instead when I click it, it just shows me the contents of my SD card.

What version of the emulator are you using? Most recent.

Please provide any additional information below (video settings, console region,...) NTSC Wii with 3.2U hacked firmware.

Thanks for the help. The problem might be how many genesis games I have in the directory- but I don't think it's over 1000.

[Former user]

Comment # 1 originally posted by ekeeke31 on 2009-10-15T06:45:16.000Z:

Sorry, not my problem, probably an incompatibility between your drive and the library we use to access USB, if it shows SD instead USB content, this means libfat/libogc did not detect your drive. USB access has been tested and works fine on my side.

Things that might fail:

1/ USB drive is not connected AND not powered when Genesis Plus is loaded from HBC.

2/ USB drive is not formatted to FAT (16/32) or don't have a valid FAT partition.

If you are using your HDD for piracy stuff, this is probably the problem as this requires an unsupported file format. Recompiling the source with the last libfat should fix this, otherwise, use another HDD formatted to FAT32.

[Former user]

Comment # 2 originally posted by jesusissin on 2009-10-15T19:15:37.000Z:

My USB drive is Fat32, and has a WBFS partition. Could that possibly be it?

For every other emulator I load the USB comes up fine. FCE Ultra GX, SNES9x GX, and Wii64.

So I don't see how my USB drive or connection could be a problem.

[Former user]

Comment # 3 originally posted by ekeeke31 on 2009-10-16T07:04:00.000Z:

yes it is, the problem is with the version of the library used to access FAT partitions.

I repeat, if you are using the last official build (quite one year old now), recompiling the source with the last libfat should fix this. Infos on how to compile the current code: http://code.google.com/p/genplus-gx/wiki/Compiling

Emulators you are mentionning are new and therefore compiled with a newer libfat that can detect FAT partitions on multipartition drives.