Drives connected to TBD ejected improperly

I have 2 G-Tech Drives that are daisychained and connected via FW800 to my TBD. I put the computer to sleep last night and this morning I had the message about a drive not being ejected properly but the drives were still in finder but were not accessible. Why did this happen? I keep pictures on the external and wouldn't want them to be corrupted if this happens again.

I had that happening with some regularity, also with G-Drives connected via the FW800 port on my ATD. It turned into a real problem a couple of days ago when the drives were being 'disconnected' every 10 minutes or so. I played around with various configurations and found that the fault was with one of the G-Drives. It's now being replaced under warranty and I haven't had a problem with the remaining drive since.
So it may be a drive, rather than a Display, issue. It was in my case.
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