After installing Lion yesterday I keep getting a window popping up from time to time with the red excllamation point saying the disk was not ejected properly.
But at no time had I disconnected anything. Just woring on the iMac.
There doesn't seem to be a way to find out what supposed drive/disk was ejected.
Any ideas or anyone else seeing this or know how to figure out what disk/drive the error message is referring to?
while your approach helped you the connection does not appear to be the solution.
i have replaced the backup drive, USB cables and the USB plugs in the computer.
I also note that the old drive works perfectly on windows machines as I passed it on to a co-worker.
the old cables also appear to work perfectly as they were passed on too!
I also note that this happens on both my iMac and my Mac book pro!
so to sum it up:
1. new hard drive in computer - still problem!
2. new back-up drive - still problem!
3. new cables - still problem!
4. new USB plugs in Computer - still problem!
5. connecting thru firewire plug - still problem!
6. service center - for check up - they gave up! still problem!
7. reloaded OS numerous times - still problem!
I am convinced that it seems to be a OSX problem.
I also note that I contacted Apple and they said they never heard of this problem. Hmmm!
Maybe there was more than one reason that Scott Forrestal, who developed time machine and the maps application was fired.
Yes, I am mad about this. been going on for about 4 years now. sometimes it will go for days without ejecting, then sometimes it will eject 5-6 times in a session.
i am glad you seem to have had an improvment, but believe it or not the problem will still exist.
Norm
Hello,
I had the same problem.
Found my solution in an app of AppStore called "Jettison". When you put the mac to sleep the "Jettison" app disconnects the drives.
When the mac wakesup it connect the drives again. It's a paid app maybe the are free ones.
Partyguy, you're so right. I'm trying it now.
My particular problem is a USB 3 card inside my Mac Pro. When the computer sleeps the card sleeps too (I'm told) and so the drive loses contact with the computer. When it wakes the computer tells me the disk unmounted incorrectly each time and though it mounts itself back, I have to OK click the window that announces that.
The same drive connected to an eSATA card wouldn't remount itself and so it was far more tedious to get it going again.
So far - with one test of the app (they allow 5 days trial) it does it's thing. It does all the external drives at once - which I don't need - but they all seem to come back online well and true.
Thank you Partyguy.
This is a problem occassionally on my iMac too. Eddie, keep us posted on how Jettison ends up working for you.
Thanks.
It works perfectly well. I bought it. You can't differrentiate which disks it unmounts though. I never had a problem with the Time Machine backup disk. It unmounts everything external. But it remounts them also and has been working splendidly. No more error messages!
The same problem for me started cropping up in the past month or so. I had to go to the Energy Savings settings and turn off the setting for Sleep HD when possible. That solved it in the short run. I'm trying Jettison now.
Hey it looks like this is being addressed in the latest update check it out!
The latest update? Are you referring to when Mavericks is released? How did you discover the issue is being addressed?
Loke88 is not referring to Mavericks but 10.8.5 Supplemental Update, which specifically mentions a fix for this issue in its release notes.
• Fixes an issue that may cause external drives to be ejected after the computer goes to sleep
In the past few days, after installing latest Lion security update, I've been having several external hard drives experiencing what appears to be bad sectors. Disk Utility chokes when trying to repair as well as Disk Genius 3.
Luckily I have backups and had to erase the offending drive and restore from backups.
I use CCC to do archive backups of my main drives, 6, to external BUs each night.
This morning both one of the main drives and its backup had bad sector errors during CCC backup.
What's going on? Appears Apple has an OS X problem they are not owning up to.
Custom 27-inch iMac, Late 2009, 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7, 16GB RAM, OS X 10.7.5 (11G63)
Having the same problem with my iPod, but never with the iPad!
And since 1 year or more, now I'm on OS 10.8.5
Maybe Maverick will do the trick?
For the time being I'm going to eject the iPod before sending the iMac to sleep!
/okn
Adding my voice to the long list of folks experiencing this problem since the 10.8.5 supplimental update. I am getting this warning constantly and disk utility chokes every time I try to repair a disk. This problem has already crippled one of my externals and is causing serious problems in a second.
I've tried the Jettison app and I still get the eject errors 😟
Stupidly paid for the app only to find it doesn't solve the issue.
With Mac OS Maverick i still get this error message. But now i know what disk is the source of the problem as the message now contains the volume name: "Data HD". This is a WD Book which I upgraded from 1TB to 2TB (I had the error before already, therefore it cannot be the disk itself).
i think anyone here expereince this issue about seagate, now how can we solve this? all my work save in my seagte hardrive...***...... im getting lights on only but didnt show any icon of seagate in my monitor.....
im worried, totally worried holy shoot
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