[X4U] external Firewire drive unmounts

[Paul Moortgat]

One has to give a FW drive the time to dismount.  Wait 15 sec  
depending the size of the drive.

Paul Moortgat

On 28 May 2005, at 15:52, lj Palmer wrote:

> I have the same thing on my machine with tiger. Fast switching  
> looses the firewire drives.  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.
> ..lj
>
> On May 27, 2005, at 10:53, Kansas Territory wrote:
>
>
>
>> I haven't quite tracked it down, but it appears that my external  
>> firewire drive is unmounting everytime someone else logs in.   
>> after they log out, and I switch back to my account (which never  
>> actually logged out.. just switched away from)  when I get back  
>> on, the external drive is gone.    I unplug the firewire drive  
>> from the computer, plug it back in, and it shows up.
>>
>> there are no errors reported, about the drive being put away or  
>> anything.  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.
>>
>> Any suggestions ?
>>
>> Kansast

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