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10.3 thinks my HD's are ejectable drives
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Nov 24, 2003, 08:20 PM
 
Since updating from 10.2.8 to 10.3 my 500 AGP hard drives are thought to be ejectables. In the finder windows there is that eject icon next to my HD's.

In the finder preferences the desktop icons stay when you pref to hide the HD's and only become hidden if you check the box to hide ejectables.

Anyone else have this issue?

aehaas
     
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Nov 24, 2003, 08:28 PM
 
I had this on a certain developer build; however, the issue seemed to resolve itself somewhere down the line...
     
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Nov 24, 2003, 09:09 PM
 
Not ejectable drives so much as ejectable volumes. And not so much ejectable as unmountable. Interesting feature, but I still agree I wouldn't like the option of "accidentally" (because thats what will happen with me) unmounting from all Finder windows. The desktop allows me to do it just fine.
     
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Nov 24, 2003, 10:59 PM
 
My Apple formatted mirror RAID shows up as ejectable. I just thought it was a bug with mirrors that got overlooked.

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Nov 25, 2003, 06:25 AM
 
The only model I have trouble with is the oldest one, my 500 AGP. I heard that Apple has not supplied updates in 10.3 for models older than 2001.

I also have the Apple supplied option of a SCSI drive. All is stock Apple HD, RAM, keyboard, mouse. We should not be having this problem.

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Nov 25, 2003, 07:18 AM
 
This is a bug. Drives that are not attached to the system IDE bus (i.e. are SCSI or attached to a PCI IDE controller) are shown as ejectable. Worse, they dismount when you logout.

I've filed a bug on this.

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Nov 25, 2003, 08:18 AM
 
That's nothing! My network icon shows as ejectable!

I've never dared to click it to see what'd happen, though.


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