Dismount time machine disk?

[MikeD.]

Using 13" MBP with 8 GB ram, hooked to a 24" Apple Display, running Time Machine to a Seagate 1 TB drive. After putting the system to sleep, it frequently wakes and tells me the drive was not properly dismounted. I close the window, click sleep again, and it's usually fine. What's causing this?

Mike

 

[AuroraProject]

Are you unmounting the Time Machine drive before sleep?

 

[MikeD.]

No, I wasn't dismounting the drive, should I?

 

[AuroraProject]

I'm not sure, you should try it though. You would think that wouldn't make a difference, for example a Mac Pro can have several internal hard drives, and having to dismount them before sleep wouldn't make much sense.

 

[hoxley]

I'm not sure, you should try it though. You would think that wouldn't make a difference, for example a Mac Pro can have several internal hard drives, and having to dismount them before sleep wouldn't make much sense.

internal drives are non-ejectable (obviously) but the ejectable flag is important in this case.

 

[MikeD.]

The Seagate is a USB drive, and I am not disconnecting it prior to putting the system to sleep so the disconnect message seems strange.