Bari10

Silly me! Problem solved. For the benefit of others - the problem lay precisely in the automounting by OSX. SonicStage or VBox didn't want the HiMD device mounted in the host environment, so the following steps worked: - under OSX, eject the NO NAME HiMD disk/device - in the VBox devices menu, the Sony HiMD usb device is no longer greyed out, so can select/check it - WinXP installs the necessary (Sony?) driver, and requires a reboot - voila, SonicStage sees the HiMD and its content. Sorry for any bother, but hope this is informative for others.

danox574 - thanks for your informative posts. I'm in a similar situation to you, with a HiMD portable (MZ-NH1) that I've successfully connected in the past to an old, slow laptop running WinXP and an earlier version of SonicStage. I want to connect the HiMD device to my fast shiny MacBookPro (MBP), using the Win version of SonicStage 4.3 running on WinXP inside VirtualBox (VBox). This looks like what you have done, so gives me hope (maybe you're using Win7 rather than WinXP - I've had trouble with Win7 under VBox). But I'm not quite succeeding (despite many past successes with VBox), so I'd like your advice. Where I get stuck is that when I connect the MZ-NH1 via usb to the MBP, OSX recognizes it as a device called Sony HiMD [0100] and mounts the disk (as NO NAME). But in VBox's Devices menu, this usb device is greyed out, so I cannot seem to connect it through into the virtual machine, and thus SonicStage doesn't see it. I find this puzzling, because it looks like a driver problem (OSX not having the right driver for the MZ-NH1 interface - I assume my install of Sonic Stage would have installed the right driver in WinXP) BUT I rather gathered that SonicStage just uses the HiMD device as a mass storage device anyway - which is there on the OSX host side. I'd be grateful for any light you could shed on this, specifically what steps you took when connecting your HiMD device through to the VBox virtual machine. I'm running OSX Lion (10.7.4) and VirtualBox 4.1.22 on the MBP., and Guest Additions are installed in the VM, and SP3 into the WinXP. Many thanks in advance!