[Ti] Problems ejecting Firewire HD

[Tom R. no spam]

Sometimes that's the drive finishing its business closing out
for the eject.  If whatever it's doing doesn't give you some
gui window, you get no hint.  But 20 min is way too long for
anything I can think of a disk would be doing to close out.

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Jerry Krinock wrote:

> Sometimes, after ejecting my Firewire hard drive (a SmartDisk Firelite), it
> disappears from the Finder, and from Path Finder, and from /Volumes, but it
> still spins and it is still powered (the blue light is on).  Not being able
> to eject it, if I pull the plug, I sometimes get a message saying "A device
> was incorrectly ejected..."  And then, then next time I connect this disk,
> it will not mount.  It will mount after a restart.  But if instead I wait
> about 20 minutes, it will stop spinning, and although the light is still on,
> I can pull the plug without problems.
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