Backup drive keeps remounting...

I have an external USB Iomega MiniMax HD that I use with SuperDuper! for backups of my mini. My problem is this: As I'm working on my mini, the Iomega drive will automatically mount and then a dialogue will appear mid-screen informing me that the Iomega was not unmounted and ejected properly -- even though I have, in fact, unmounted and ejected the drive properly. This keeps happening repeatedly, so it's disruptive and annoying. Short of switching the power off on the Iomega, is there a way to prevent the automount/warning routine from occurring?
Message was edited by: dlclaytor

Well, I'll tell you what. I won a nifty little 500GB G-Drive portable USB drive in a Sundance Film Festival drawing, so I connected it to my mini via an unused USB port on the back of my Cinema Dispay. And I left my Iomega attached, but I turned it OFF. Then I made a bootable backup of my mini on the G-Drive. Now everything is fine. True, I didn't exhaustively trouble-shoot the Iomega problem (no time!), but neither my G-Drive nor my LaCie Drive are mounting unless I choose to mount them with the Disk Utility or reboot the mini. So, while I didn't "solve" the problem, I managed to fix it. One of these days I'll investigate the Iomega problem more thoroughly. Thanks again.

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