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external drive ejects at sleep

I recently upgraded to OS 10.8.5 and now when my iMac (late 2012) wakes from sleep I get the error that my Lacie external thunderbolt raid drive has been ejected improperly. Then it reconnects right away and the Lacie raid manager pops up and says the disks are ok.


Is this a known issue with the OS update or should I worry that my drive may be failing? I have all of my iTunes info on the drive.

iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8)

Posted on Sep 13, 2013 1:35 PM

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Sep 27, 2013 7:59 AM in response to paulhoynak

Same deal here with me. Updated to 10.8.5 and now every morning I'm getting the error message about improperly disconnecting the disc (I have a 1TB LaCie drive serving as my Time Machine drive). Like the rest of you I do NOT disconnect that drive at night while my computer sleeps (of course since I want it to perform backups during the night).


Thanks for creating this thread. Now I feel much better. And thanks for those of you who've contributed feedback in detail to Apple.

Oct 8, 2013 8:33 AM in response to paulhoynak

I can confirm that it did NOT fix the problem on my Mac Mini. I was ecstatic seeing that in the list of fixes when I installed/rebooted yesterday. However, when I came in to work this morning, same thing. Drive not properly ejected.... Specifcally, the hard drive is a USB 3.0 Toshiba with an external power supply. I have verified that I have the SU1.0 installed.

external drive ejects at sleep

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