You get this message because you only ejected 1 of the partitions on the drive then unplugged it which causes the notification for all the other actively mounted partitions.
Whenever you have a single drive with more than 1 mounted partition regardless of type or format you will get a dialog when trying to eject a single partition. The Dialog asks if you just want to eject that particular partition or all of the ones attached to the device. Simply choose the eject all button and you will not receive that notification. As to Ashley's comment to get a wd drive to stop this. That is incorrect and This will happen with ANY removable device that is connected and mounts multiple partitions, regardless of type (ie memory cards, thumb drives, hard drives, etc) I hope this clarifies things Kieren > It's also important to note that Ben's drive is partitioned two ways: each > equally 250GB. The first partition is Extended Journaled case sensitive, > and the second is MS Dos Fat. the first partition is being used with Time > Machine. The second is both for mac and windows platform storage. > > I think both volumes became unmounted when he got the notification. > I just got a Seagate drive from BestBuy. I wasn't doing a darn thing with > the drive, yet a notification arose saying that it's not wise to unplug a > drive without safely ejecting it. Apparently Chris Gilland has also had this > problem with specifically his Seagate drives. Has anybody had this problem? > I am almost certain that it's not a defective drive being that someone else > has also encountered it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
