On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 6:30 AM, Rudolf O.Durrer <[email protected]> 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
I've observed this with all external drives and Mac OS X when sleeping. Sleeping quite literally means that the system suspends operation of all (including the USB and FireWire bus) but the most necessary hardware such that when the suspend process begins Mac OS X sees the drive as being improperly removed because the bus is turned off and thus when you come out of sleep you see that dreadful warning message. Either eject your drive before sleeping or don't sleep your mac and just turn off your monitor instead. -- Best Regards, John Musbach _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
