Dictionary needs to wake up USB drive to launch !?....

hi guys
a pesky annoyance has crept up lately in my computing life :
i have 3 W.Digital USB drives connected to my iMac 27'' i7 w/ 8GB of RAM, through a couple of Logitech powered USB hubs.
1 is T.Machine w/ 1TB, 1 is my iTunes Library w/ 1.7TB & the other is video w/ 600GB. the iTunes drive is connected alone to one hub + my HP printer + a usb cable from my APC ups.
the other two drives share the other hub
when i click on the Dictionary's icon to open it, if it's the 1st time that day it takes ages to open & sometimes hangs but regardless what it does, ALWAYS AFTER the USB drive/iTunes library is woken up & starts spinning !!??....
after that 1st time it opens quite readily, doesn't need the drive to spin & rarely hangs up - i call hanging up when one clicks on an app's icon & the icon stays magnified, sticking out half way of a by now frozen dock & nothing happens for a while ( sometimes with, sometimes without beach ball of death... ) then after a few seconds up to maybe a minute it either opens properly or i get bored & force it to quit...
does anyone have ANY idea what this is all about ? you think it could be love between my drive & my Dictionary app & they simply can't live one without the other ?
i'm joking about it but english not being my native language, this is highly irritating since when writing longer, more intricate texts, i do need to use Dict. quite a bit to check out correct spellings, etc..
ANY help on this matter WILL be greatly appreciated, many thanks in advance
Nuno

Good afternoon,
You are right. It does appear under /cdrom. My brain isn't here. I found that I could use ejected.
Some how in clicking on different things, I have discovered that there is a nice "desktop" It did show the CD-rom disk in the computer. I clicked on that and I was able to eject the disk that way. Although it seems "nautilus" (whatever this is) doesn't like me doing that; it generated an error message. I closed it and the desk top went away.
Is it normally for the /cdrom to keep displaying a cd-rom disk that is no longer in use? How do I clear that?
I think I got the idea about the rmdisk, because that is where the USB device had once appeared. Since I had the volume manager running, I decided to insert the USB device. The computer wanted to reformat it. I answered "No," but I don't know where it is. What else do I need to do?
Thank you,
Fred

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