I have a FW800 G-Tech external HD (bus powered) that doesn't spin down when I eject it from my desktop. The icon disappears, both on the desktop and from my finder windows but I can feel the disk still spinning in the enclosure. It won't stop until I launch Disk Utility and choose "unmount" from there.
This is on an early 2011 15" MacBook Pro. I have the nearly identical machine at work that I use this portable drive with and never have this problem on it, nor on any of the desktop machines there. The drive is partitioned in 2, but I always choose to eject both partitions and both disappear when I do.
This is on an early 2011 15" MacBook Pro. I have the nearly identical machine at work that I use this portable drive with and never have this problem on it, nor on any of the desktop machines there. The drive is partitioned in 2, but I always choose to eject both partitions and both disappear when I do.