10.6.8 Update Disconnects Disk?

Hi. My external USB drive which I use for installation experiments suddenly disconnected and the prompt warning me to eject it first came up. I checked the connections by moving it and by moving the iMac and the quality of the usb cable. The cable is snugged fit and there seems to be no problem with the cable but has anyone experienced their external disks being disconnected after updating to 10.6.8? Thank you in advance.
Gbu.

Ok will check, as of right now I have 82.57gb free, that's plenty of space will check the disk though using disk utility. Also I am now downloading the update from the apple website instead of going through software update

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