How to get the external hard drive to connect to VMWare Player?

Hi all

I currently have VMWare Player 3.1.4 and that you have a VM installed on an external SSD that works very well.

The guest operating system is XP and host operating system is OpenSuSE 11.4.

The problem is that I have another external hard drive that I want to connect to the virtual machine to store files and other (WD Scorpio Black 320 GB).

So what I tried was when I opend VMWare Player, I went to add a new SCSI device, found the hard drive, I wanted to use and created it. But when I go in-> "VM" > "Removable devices" > "generic SCSI (SCSI 0:1) ' > 'Connect'-> I get the below error message.

Device virtual scsi0:1: could not open the device host "/ dev/sdc": not sufficient permissions to access the file. Please make sure that the virtual device is configured to use a Linux generic SCSI device (/ dev/sg *), and that the physical device works normally on the host computer.
Cannot connect the device virtual scsi0:1.

Does anyone know if I'm doing something wrong? What are the permissions are they talking about?

Thanks in advance,

Matt

Are back at the office and tested on a variety of Linux Ubuntu and was able to add a second drive HARD/dev/sdb as a physical and even disc was also able to boot from it even if it needs to be dismantled first and I had to start VMware Player using sudo, because I was using a standard account both add the disk and run the virtual machine with the added disk.

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