[X4U] How about Hot UNpluggable Disks?

[Al Grappone]

On Jul 9, 2004, at 19:00, Jerry Krinock wrote:

> Hot pluggable USB and Firewire disks are great.  But if I ever forget 
> to
> "eject" such a disk, even if no data is being transferred at the time,
>
> (1) I get an "Device Removal" alert box.
>
> (2) Often, the next time I go to mount this disk, even a day later, it 
> will
> not show up in the Finder, and/or Path Finder, and/or /Volumes.  The 
> only
> way to get it back seems to be to restart.

I have done the same thing at times and got the same alert. But I have 
not had to restart  to mount again.
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