I did check the cables when it happened a few days ago and reseated them.  
Happened again last night... Reformatted and starting a fresh time machine 
backup again.  

I do have another drive chained off the FW800 port of the mini stack. Wonder if 
that is a factor in this particular instance. 

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On Apr 24, 2013, at 11:07 AM, Carl Hoefs <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>> 
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