external hard disk not recognized

[MirJafar Ali]

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 3:54 AM, Hakan Koseoglu <hakan at koseoglu.org> wrote:

> Hi MirJafar,
>
> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 4:40 PM, MirJafar Ali <mirjafarali at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I am using Ubuntu 9.10 as a virtual machine with VMPlayer. Somehow I can
> not
> > see my external
> > hard disk with it. I am not quite sure what I need to look for ? Is it
> > something to do with Virtual machine
> > or I need to configure something in Ubuntu ?
> To start with, ignore anything Karl says. He cannot give good advice,
> leave alone researching something if he doesn't know about it.
>
> First, make sure you upgrade to the latest version, if not you haven't
> done already (3.0.1).
> Start up the player and check the USB Controller option. There you
> will see three options. Make sure that you have "Enable high-speed
> support", "Automatically connect new devices" are both ticked. You
> might like to tick the third one.
> Finally start the VM and then plug the device and when a window pops
> up you will know that the device is recognised. Finally make sure that
> it is "connected". I found not all devices connect sometimes.
>
> The last thing is, I always found USB disk performance pretty low. You
> might like to turn on file sharing on the VM (Virtual Machine Settings
> -> Options -> Shared Folders -> Enable) and mount your external disk
> onto your normal environment and share it as such. I found the
> performance is significantly better on my Dell Latitute laptop when
> used like this.
>
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Hello

Thanks for wonderfully clear suggestions. I will try and
will inform you if I fail or succeed.

Mir.
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