On 21. Aug 2023 at 04:49:27 CEST, "André G. Isaak" <agisaak@gm.invalid> wrote:
Two general questions:
(1) If the drive is periodically unmounting, would that explain why
spotlight is constantly reindexing it?
Yes.
(2) Any ideas why it would be periodically unmounting in the first place
(especially with a 'not properly ejected' warning)?
Could be that it is not getting sufficient power.
You said it is plugged directly into the mac and not into some hub?
Two general questions:
(1) If the drive is periodically unmounting, would that explain why
spotlight is constantly reindexing it?
(2) Any ideas why it would be periodically unmounting in the first place (especially with a 'not properly ejected' warning)?
It's a seagate drive plugged directly into the iMac. No hub involved.
Two general questions:
(1) If the drive is periodically unmounting, would that explain why
spotlight is constantly reindexing it?
(2) Any ideas why it would be periodically unmounting in the first place (especially with a 'not properly ejected' warning)?
On 2023-08-20 22:49, André G. Isaak wrote:
Two general questions:
(1) If the drive is periodically unmounting, would that explain why
spotlight is constantly reindexing it?
Yes
(2) Any ideas why it would be periodically unmounting in the first place
(especially with a 'not properly ejected' warning)?
Time to clean all the USB contacts with alcohol and emery paper.
Cable ends, computer side and drive side.
Clean the power leads to the external drive too - emery paper.
(High count sandpaper will do too - 800 grit per inch or so ).
May have a power issue with the external drive.
Is the external drive power supply esp. hot?
Is the USB cable perhaps bad in some intermittent fashion?
Do you have a different cable you can try?
On Aug 21, 2023 at 10:57:14 AM PDT, "Alan Browne" <bitbucket@blackhole.com> wrote:
On 2023-08-20 22:49, André G. Isaak wrote:
Two general questions:
(1) If the drive is periodically unmounting, would that explain why
spotlight is constantly reindexing it?
Yes
(2) Any ideas why it would be periodically unmounting in the first place >>> (especially with a 'not properly ejected' warning)?
Time to clean all the USB contacts with alcohol and emery paper.
Cable ends, computer side and drive side.
Clean the power leads to the external drive too - emery paper.
(High count sandpaper will do too - 800 grit per inch or so ).
May have a power issue with the external drive.
Is the external drive power supply esp. hot?
Is the USB cable perhaps bad in some intermittent fashion?
Do you have a different cable you can try?
Interesting. I've never heard or thought of cleaning usb contacts.
On 21. Aug 2023 at 09:10:02 CEST, "André G. Isaak" <agisaak@gm.invalid> wrote:
It's a seagate drive plugged directly into the iMac. No hub involved.
Maybe a defective cable then. Try another one.
Or maybe the drive is simply dying (how old is it?)
On 2023-08-21 02:26, Bernd Froehlich wrote:
On 21. Aug 2023 at 09:10:02 CEST, "André G. Isaak" <agisaak@gm.invalid>
wrote:
It's a seagate drive plugged directly into the iMac. No hub
involved.
Maybe a defective cable then. Try another one.
Or maybe the drive is simply dying (how old is it?)
Sorry that I disappeared from this conversation -- I had a minor
run-in with Covid which had me incapacitated for awhile.
I think I've discovered what is going on and it is a software issue
rather than a hardware issue, albeit an unusual one.
The problem with the drive umounting seems to *only* occur when
parallels desktop is runnning (which it usually is). I discovered that
when I start a new VM in parallels I get a message saying 'the drive
[TM drive] is in use by another device and cannot be used' at which
point the drive dismounts, so it looks like the host and the VM are 'competing' for who has access to the drive.
VMware Fusion has a way to tell a VM whether or not to use certain
devices, where the default behavior is to ask you each time the device
is encountered:
On 2023-09-01 10:29, André G. Isaak wrote:
On 2023-08-21 02:26, Bernd Froehlich wrote:
On 21. Aug 2023 at 09:10:02 CEST, "André G. Isaak" <agisaak@gm.invalid> >>> wrote:
It's a seagate drive plugged directly into the iMac. No hub involved.
Maybe a defective cable then. Try another one.
Or maybe the drive is simply dying (how old is it?)
Sorry that I disappeared from this conversation -- I had a minor
run-in with Covid which had me incapacitated for awhile.'
New variant? ( Omicron strain variant BA.2.86 - just hit Canada (BC)).
How bad did it hit you?
having these issues?
On 2023-08-21 02:26, Bernd Froehlich wrote:
On 21. Aug 2023 at 09:10:02 CEST, "André G. Isaak" <agisaak@gm.invalid>
wrote:
It's a seagate drive plugged directly into the iMac. No hub involved.
Maybe a defective cable then. Try another one.
Or maybe the drive is simply dying (how old is it?)
Sorry that I disappeared from this conversation -- I had a minor run-in
with Covid which had me incapacitated for awhile.'
I think I've discovered what is going on and it is a software issue
rather than a hardware issue, albeit an unusual one.
The problem with the drive umounting seems to *only* occur when
parallels desktop is runnning (which it usually is). I discovered that
when I start a new VM in parallels I get a message saying 'the drive [TM drive] is in use by another device and cannot be used' at which point
the drive dismounts, so it looks like the host and the VM are
'competing' for who has access to the drive.
When the computer wakes from sleep this also occurs albeit not
regularly, so I suspect that when the computer wakes up there is also sometimes a renegotiation between the host and the VM for who controls
the drive.
I suspect this only affects the TM drive since parallels can share
non-TM drives with the host.
This issue didn't affect my older computer, but when I purchased the new
one I also had to update parallels desktop, so this issue is either a
glitch in the newer version of parallels desktop or a glitch with Monterey.
I mentioned before that I needed to physically disconnect and reconnect
the drive when it unmounted to get it back. However, I discovered that
if I quite parallels desktop, I can remount the drive from within disk utility without reconnecting it.
On 2023-09-01 11:07, Jolly Roger wrote:
VMware Fusion has a way to tell a VM whether or not to use certain
devices, where the default behavior is to ask you each time the
device is encountered:
Parallels desktop behaves the same way. But for some reason there
seems to be a glitch in how it handles the TM drive. For non-TM drives
and other devices it gives me a 'remember my choice' option, but it
isn't doing this for the TM drive. I think it's a problem with the
current version of parallels desktop which hopefully they will fix.
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