External FW Drive in Parallels?

[FF_productions]

I'm sure this question has been asked before but I can't find it anywhere.

I installed Parallels on my OSX drive in my documents drive. I have an external firewire drive connected to my Mac Pro. Problem is Windows/Parallels doesn't see any hard drives.

How do I get Parallels to see the hard drive? This is crucial!

Thanks

 

[SDAVE]

I heard that Parallels doesn't support FireWire connections at the moment.

 

[DoFoT9]

uummm if you create a 2nd harddrive and save it onto ur fw drive then it will effectiviely be seen on the fw drive.... or do u want 2 see the whole drive??

if thats the case then im not sure how to do this.

 

[FF_productions]

I'd like to be able to mount my 300 gig firewire drive in parallels. It is formatted for Windows too.

 

[FF_productions]

I solved the problem!

Use USB!

Do NOT mount it in OS X. Keep the drive disconnected/off. Open Parallels up, power up the hard drive and it will then mount in Windows.

 

[jdechko]

Question?

I know that parallels supports file/folder sharing between OS X and parallels. So could you not set it up so that the root (meaning the top level in the file hierarchy, not root as in the user) of the drive is shared between the two?

Of course, if all things are equal (perceived transfer speeds-"fast enough"- does USB require a power brick that isn't required using FW, etc) transitioning from FW to USB, then I guess that works too.