I'm having the same problem with external USB2 drives as various earlier posters are, but I'm using an external EXT2 drive, trying to connect it to a RedHat AS3 VM. I see the equivalent behavior in my situation as the Windows/BootCamp users are reporting -- the drive is recognized by OSX, but after connecting the device to the VM, it doesn't show up (in fact, it locks up the VM, but even after resetting the VM, the device does not appear in 'fdisk -l').
So, inferring the logical equivalent of your suggestion above, I'd have a hard time believing that a re-install of RHAS3 would fix this.
From what I've read from above and elsewhere on the forum, this seems to be a general problem in 3120RC1, not a 'Windows VM'-specific problem.
Last edited: Jan 23, 2007