Thanx. i'll check it out.

Rob

James / Hans Kunz wrote:
hi Rob
just a week or so ago i had a talk about a similar problem, try to use a external!!!!(power pack) powered usb hub, harddrives suck alot of power when the motor has to spin up from start or sleep
my recomendation is not to power harddisk, scanners & other power hungry gadgets from the usb port, because the power from a usb port is limited
the error message points to that problem, it's not unmounting - it's in fact disconnected based on power failure or in rare cases plug connection problems
cheers    James


On 25/01/2010, at 10:13, Rob Phillips wrote:


Hi everyone

This is something I've never seen before.  My son has a large 2TB USB drive with movie files on it.  It has started unmounting and remounting itself.  The first message is the usual one "you're attempting to remove a drive which hasn't been unmounted - you may lose data."  However, the drive then remounts itself, and then removes itself a few minutes later. etc.

Is this a hardware problem with the drive enclosure?  We've changed cables and that doesn't seem to be the problem.

Any ideas?

Rob
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