Hi, I have a feeling this is a new issue. I just encountered this situation myself, and I didn't know this was a problem before. My scenario: MacOS Catalina 10.15.3 VMware 11.5.1 (15018442)...
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Hi, I have a feeling this is a new issue. I just encountered this situation myself, and I didn't know this was a problem before. My scenario: MacOS Catalina 10.15.3 VMware 11.5.1 (15018442) Windows 10 32-bit I recently used Windows to run Western Digital Data LifeGuard, to run diagnostics on some external hard disks. The hard disks are connected by an OWC USB 3 Gen 1 (aka 5 Gbps) dual-drive dock. About two weeks ago, I was able to use this dock in Win10 to run disk diagnostics. About 2 days ago, I installed the latest MacOS update that recently became available. Tonight, I received another WD disk, and so I put it in the OWC drive dock with Win10 to run diagnostics. Mysteriously, I received an error message from VMware about how "this device couldn't be connected through its preferred mechanism" or something to that effect. I then started googling the message, which is how I found the support topic mentioned up-thread. That's when I discovered VMware Fusion had a toggle in the Advanced USB settings to enable USB 3 support. When I checked my settings, the Win10 VM was set for USB 2 support. I've never changed that setting before. Also, the dock has always been connected to the Mac with a USB 3 cable... no changes there. So, in the period of about two weeks, I was able to use the USB 3 drive dock successfully in Win10, and suddenly I'm receiving error messages. I'm inclined to say that the recent MacOS update might have had something to do with it?
