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Broken External drive support #943

Open onewhitefalcon opened 1 year ago

onewhitefalcon commented 1 year ago

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Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Describe what you expected should happen and what did happen.

The advertised external drive support when formatted to ext4 is completely broken. This feature worked in 3.4 preview and stopped when 3.4 officially released. The drive no longer mounts.

I've done the following

  1. re-image my steam deck to run stable as something might have broken during my time with preview
  2. Moved all games from external ssd to my linux computer then wiped the drive with ext4. The format sd card indicator will sometimes flash on the top status bar before going away
  3. usb flash drive using same method. If I set it up with GPT and an empty partition, the format sd card indicator will permanently stay on the status bar until removal. Formatting the partition to ext4 will have the same effect as in test {2}
  4. Took the sd card out of the steam deck and connected it to the usb c port using an adapter with the same results
  5. Had another steam deck that always ran release builds also have the same issues.

I've tried all these steps while plugging the drive in directly to the usb-c port and also with the steam deck dock with the same results. The games on the external drive were played while connected to the dock

If I could also make a feature request, have the ability to also format external drives in the steamos.

bertogg commented 1 year ago

I can use an external drive using SteamOS 3.4.4, formatted with ext4 on a Linux computer.

The newly-formatted drive never works for you, or does it stop working after a certain time, or what happens exactly?

Never mind, you're not doing anything wrong, mounting external drives is indeed disabled in the stable branch for the time being.

onewhitefalcon commented 1 year ago

I'm currently running beta 3.4.5 but it seems to be also disabled here as well. Might be a bug that it is disabled or they might have found a bug and decided to disable it. Still strange they announced the feature when it's not enabled but it being potentially disabled on purpose means that they might be working out the kinks. Thanks for also looking into it

rakonkido commented 1 year ago

Also seems to be disabled in Preview channel.