<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">One has to give a FW drive the time to dismount. Wait 15 sec depending the size of the drive.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Paul Moortgat</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 28 May 2005, at 15:52, lj Palmer wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I have the same thing on my machine with tiger. Fast switching looses the firewire drives.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I also find if I dismount the drive and remove it for a while, that when I reinstall it spotlight will no longer search/find anything on it. Tiger seems to have issues with firewire drives.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">..lj</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On May 27, 2005, at 10:53, Kansas Territory wrote:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I haven't quite tracked it down, but it appears that my external firewire drive is unmounting everytime someone else logs in.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>after they log out, and I switch back to my account (which never actually logged out.. just switched away from)<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>when I get back on, the external drive is gone.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I unplug the firewire drive from the computer, plug it back in, and it shows up.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">there are no errors reported, about the drive being put away or anything.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>iTunes tells me it can't find the music that it had loaded from the drive, but all works fine after I unplug it and plug it back in.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Any suggestions ?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Kansast</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#006312"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>