External drive seen by guest OS as smaller than it is

Discussion in 'General Questions' started by DEMandell, Oct 20, 2013.

  1. DEMandell

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    Greetings,

    I have an external Firewire drive enclosure that is currently set up with 4 1TB drives and RAID 5 as a 3TB device. It is correctly recognized and mountable by Mac OS, and shows up as a 3TB device. However, when I connect it to a virtual machine, it shows up as an 800 GB device instead of 3TB. This seems like a Parallels problem since I get exactly the same results with both FreeBSD and Linux guests. I haven't tried Windows yet, but can do that in a bit.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks,
    --Douglas Mandell
     

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