Am 07.11.2011 um 21.14 schrieb Macs R We: > > 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.
Well, other drives I used before had not been thrown out. I dont know exactely what happens to a USB drive, when the computer goes to sleep, but afaik, drives should not been thrown out at all...Unplug and plug in again starts the drive quite normal > > 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. I have unfortunately no access to a windose. > Try to have the "My Computer" window open when you sleep the machine. Question: I guess, "My Computer" window is the window which pops up with the first menu item in the Apple menu? How do I have that open, when the computer goes to sleep? (the macs are set to automatically go to sleep after a certain time without input)_______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
