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Re: Sleep unmounts hard drives improperly

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In article <vilain-70D0FE.15493504122013@news.individual.net>, Michael
Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> wrote:

> In article <041220131651453063%invid@loclanet.com>,
>  Invid Fan <invid@loclanet.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm using a 2.7 GHz iMac running 10.9. I noticed my machine wasn't
> > actually going to sleep, so I went into the preferences and saw sleep
> > was turned off. Huh. Wonder why I did that. I turned it back on, and
> > discovered why: on waking from sleep, I received the error message that
> > one of my drives had been ejected improperly. That's a bad thing. I
> > have two external USB drives hooked up at the moment. Is there some
> > setting I might be missing here?
> 
> I have a separately powered 3TB external USB drive for Time Machine and 
> Superduper! clone backups of my MacBookPro.  It goes to sleep when I 
> shut the lid and wakes with this drive attached just fine.  I'm running 
> 10.8.5.  I don't have the "Put hard drives to sleep when possible" 
> option checked in my Energy Saver settings.  I don't know if there's an 
> equivalent on 10.9.
> 
> 
> The only remotely relevant setting for this is the hard drives sleep.  I 
> googled "Mavericks USB drives eject on sleep" and got this topic:
> 
> https://discussions.apple.com/message/23498109#23498109
> 
> Seems like it's a bug.

Interesting. Thanks. I'm amused that the given solution, "resetting the
System Management Controller", doesn't list this as one of the things
it could fix on Apple's support page:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

I'm going to turn off having the hard drives sleep for now and see if
that works. Thanks.

-- 
Chris Mack       "If we show any weakness, the monsters will get cocky!"
'Invid Fan'             - 'Yokai Monsters Along With Ghosts'

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Sleep unmounts hard drives improperly Invid Fan <invid@loclanet.com> - 2013-12-04 16:51 -0500
  Re: Sleep unmounts hard drives improperly Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-12-04 15:49 -0800
    Re: Sleep unmounts hard drives improperly Invid Fan <invid@loclanet.com> - 2013-12-04 21:06 -0500
  Re: Sleep unmounts hard drives improperly Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-12-05 02:04 +0000

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