Your first assumption is completely invalid. Ben and I both did not unplug
the drive at all. Furthermore, this happened not just on his drive but also
on a few different CGate drives I have, which, to reidderate, means process
of elimination says, the drive wouldn't be defected as for one thing, this
is not just happening with one drive, 2, the drives have all been
repartitioned with Disk Utility, as well as through Windows, and even
through Linux a few times, so there is no way. If it was because of data
corruption, that data would have been rewritten with 1's and 0's, thus
making the corrupted sectors or what not become validly reusable.
Furthermore, on both of our drives, Disk Utility reports that they both were
verified and were in good shape, and were functioning correctly.
Performing an SMC reset as well as a P M ram reset on both our macbooks
didn't fix the issue either.
You have to understand: Ben didn't unplug the drive at all, nor was he
trying to eject/unmount either of the volumes, so thus, the fact that the
soft symbolic links to /Volumes/DrivePartitionNames got broken, is very
strange.
No drives ever were ejected, no volumes ever were ejected either via the
eject key, command+E, nor through improper removing. It just clearly did
this out of the blue.
Yes, Ben and I have sufficient trustees to read/write to the drives, as both
of our accounts are the primary administrator accounts, so believe me, it's
not a disk permission issue that chmod, nor disk utility could fix.
So... yeah...
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kieren" <[email protected]>
To: "MacVisionaries" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 5:36 PM
Subject: Re: False notification of disc ejection
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.
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