Eject Firewire Hard Drive, Won't Stop Running

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Eject Firewire Hard Drive, Won't Stop Running

I upgraded my Early 2009 Mac Pro OS to 10.9 today, but I found a problem about my external firewire hard drive.

If I eject firewire hard drive under 10.8, the hard drive will stop running/rotating. Then I unplug the firewire cable. After I upgrade to 10.9 OS, the firewire hard drive will not stop running/rotating after I eject it. I cannot see any external hard drive icon on desktop, but I can hear the hard drive running sound.

I'm not sure if it's safe to unplug cable under running condition after succeful eject. How's many people have the same problem with me?

Thank you!

Posted on Oct 27, 2013 10:51 AM

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Answer 1

The hatter

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Oct 27, 2013 10:54 AM in response to Linxi Jiang

how old is the FW case?

I guess Apple should thank you for beta testing the new OS while they work out real world issues?

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kaz-k

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Oct 27, 2013 11:28 AM in response to Linxi Jiang

My old FW external HDD case is also not stop its HDD after eject it.

I just turn off the switch of HDD which suppose to be safe.

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Linxi Jiang Author

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Oct 27, 2013 12:00 PM in response to The hatter

I bought the FW case from OWC last year. It works very well under 10.8.

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The hatter

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Oct 27, 2013 12:42 PM in response to Linxi Jiang

I have a dozen OWC cases and they have all continued to work (but can't say about 10.9) and they are getting "dated."

Apple though often changes drivers, IOKIt and how external drives are treated, 10.5.0 thru 10.5.2 the rules changed and changed back and forth. Some drives had to be off during startup. Users have had trouble with 10.6 as well with their drives, often USB and/or FW from major vendors (WD etc) not working.

Do either of you get the "drive was not ejected properly" message on the next time you do connect and power it back on or after a restart?

One of the reasons I prefer waiting for the .2 or later releases.

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