On Nov 7, 2011, at 4:30 AM, Rudolf O.Durrer wrote:
> I recently bought a external HD (Freecom mobile drive classic II, 500 GB,
> connected with USB 2).
> Nice device, so far, but: each time any of my macs (mini, MBP 2010, MBP 2011,
> all with Snowleopard) goes to sleep mode, this HD seem to be cut off. When
> reactivating the computer, the HD is gone and a message appears telling to
> throw out the HD correctly by moving the icon to the trash....
> Is that a failure in the HD's construction or what else?
> Does anybody observe similar behaviour with external Freecom HD's
> Thanks for a hint
Sounds like it does not start up, or starts up too slowly, when power is
reapplied. If it's too slow, OS X will just abort the connection on you.
What I would do is try it on a Windows machine and see if you see the same
behavior. I suspect you will. Windows 7 not only won't precipitously abort
the connection if the drive doesn't respond, it will also give you that
"be-doop" sound when it finally does, so you will even be able to gauge how
late the drive is in responding to the wakeup. Try to have the "My Computer"
window open when you sleep the machine.
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