FWIW, in my case things were going wonky with my external drives because the damn cables never stay seated properly in the sockets on the back of my iMac. Just adjusting the tilt of the screen is enough to give me a bunch of popups saying not to remove drives by unplugging them! The drives can also go silently unresponsive at times (or get hopelessly hosed, especially with TimeMachine) for the same reason. Got so tired of losing data and doing fsck that I actually glued the cables in with silicone rubber! Extreme, but it seems to be doing much better. Sad that none of the modern connectors (Thunderbolt, FW, USB, etc) have any latches or other ways of really holding themselves in the sockets. I guess they all assume a completely static environment where nothing moves or gets bumped.
On Apr 23, 2013, at 6:52 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote: > This has happened on a couple of Seagate drives on various machines of mine > (MBPro, DUAL QUAD) .. and more recently, on my iMac 27 with a brand new 3T > Mini Stack. > (3rd time in less than 3 months). > > <PastedGraphic-1.png> > > In fact, it happened 3 days ago. I reformatted, created a brand new backup. > Now tonight, once again. > > Clues as to what causes this? > > K > > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
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