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ascnick Author

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external hard drive won

After I eject it, my external hard drive will only spin down for about 2 seconds before it spins up again. Even though it's still unmounted, if I unplug the USB for the drive while it's spinning I get an error message the next time it's plugged in (and I can hear the drive make a nasty scraping sound as it spins down).

How can I get the drive to spin down for good after it ejects? All I can find online is this script from the early '00s which gave me an error message when I tried to run it.

https://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20040401100219380

yields

error "hdiutil: eject failed - No such file or directory" number 1

Thanks for considering!

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Posted on Sep 7, 2019 1:12 PM

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ascnick Author

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Posted on Sep 8, 2019 11:53 AM

This is a duplicate post. Please do not comment or reply. For primary post, please go to:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250614960

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