[G4] Firewire Fatique

[Anne Keller-Smith]

At 9:30 AM -0500 1/5/04, John Wilson wrote:
>Hi Anne. Does the drive have an on/off switch? If so, unmount the drive
>after you're finished backing up by dragging the drive icon to the
>trash (which changes to the unmount icon as soon as you grab the drive
>icon), then turn off the drive via the on/off switch. If you unplug the
>drive while it's mounted you could possibly corrupt its data and should
>get an error message. John

So I don't have to unplug the drive? The manual specifically says to
unplug the drive WHILE IT IS STILL ON, then turn it off.  Yes, that is
after unmounting the drive. I've always faithfully done that.

Anne Keller Smith
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