Why it has suddenly arisen, I have no idea.
Did it arise after doing an update?
A security update, or OS, or application update?
There has to be a reason why it has just started to have this problem.
Does the Firewire Drive go to sleep and perhaps it is not waking when
the computer wakes in the morning?
Ronni
On 16/06/2009, at 10:26 AM, Barry Sexstone wrote:
Thank-you Ronni, I will try this next time this happens. It may
solve the problem but why has it suddenly arisen?
Barry
On 16/06/2009, at 9:23 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:
On 16/06/2009, at 9:15 AM, Barry Sexstone wrote:
I have a WD external hard drive connected to firewire 400 port on
my Intel Mac running 10.5.7
The external drive has two partitions - on running time machine
and the other is a backup clone.
In the last few days, on waking from sleep in the morning, the
computer shows the standard device removal warning "The device you
removed was not properly put away etc." and the icons for the
external disk are not on the desktop. This is a recent phenomenon
and does not seem to happen when the computer sleeps during the day.
Any clues/advice.
Regards
Barry
Hello Barry,
When this happens, with the drive connected and powered open Disk
Utility, does the drive show there?
If the drive is listed in the left side list then select the volume
even if it's greyed out, then click on the Mount icon in the DU
toolbar.
Cheers,
Ronni
17" MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo
2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB
OS X 10.5.7
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