PICO unable to access SDcard

I’m on a Raspberry Pi B+ and have gotten Pico up and running. However, I can’t find a way to access the contents of the SD card drive.

From Basic:

1. *CAT returns “The disc drive is empty”.
2. Typing a small program and then SAVE “name” returns “The disc drive is empty”.

I’ve tried to put PICO on two different cards with the same results.

Any pointers?

Thanks,

M

The current Pico build is too old to contain proper support for the B+ (the SD card detect line was removed, so old builds will always complain that the drive is empty).

I’m not sure if/when ROOL are planning on updating the build, but to be honest it’s not that hard to turn a regular Pi ROM into something that will boot into BASIC. All you need to do is enter the following at the CLI:

*opt 4,0
*configure language 13
*configure mode 7
*unplug bootfx

Cool, thanks. I’ll try that. Lots of new things to learn with this OS. :)

M

Equally it is easy to update the Pico firmware to use bootcode.bin start.elf and fixup.dat from the current RC12a image.

Yeah, I tried that but unfortunately it doesn’t work.

Hi Jeff,

Entering those commands got me booting into basic but it doesn’t switch into mode 7 (it appears to be doing “Auto” which results in really tiny fonts).

If I QUIT BASIC and doing *Status Mode is listed as 7

Any ideas

Thanks

Jonathan

Hi Mikael,

I had exactly the same problems on RPi B+, until I found an updated version of Pico at http://packages.riscosopen.org/RISC-OS_Pico.zip

I also had to add the following line to CONFIG.TXT to get rid of some issues with screen display:

hdmi_safe=1

Now everything works perfectly.
Hope this helps
Chris