External SATA Drive Not Recognized Correctly

[RicM]

Hello,

I have a Pioneer BDR-203BK (Blu-ray disk burner) inside a Vantec NexStar DX SATA enclosure connected to my Mac via USB.  I'm trying to do a firmware update on the device from Fusion with Windows XP Professional (Version 2002 Service Pack 3) as the guest operating system.  (The firmware update is only available as a Windows Install).

Fusion recognizes the drive as a DVD-RAM device, and when trying to apply the firmware update I get an error message "Available target is not found."  I think the firmware updater is expecting to see the device itself but instead finds necvmwar vmware ide cdr00.  How do I get connected to the physical drive?

Thanks!

-ric.

[RicM]

Well, after spending hours trying to figure this out, all it took was posting this question and the lightbulb came on.  The answer is right there in my initial post--the device is connected via USB.  Once I connected the device to Fusion as a USB device all was good.

Thanks!

-ric.