"Disk not ejected" message appears randomly

The "disk was not ejected properly" message is continuously coming up on my screen.
When "eject" has been highlighted I have clicked on it, but the message still appears from time to time apparently randomly?
can anyone help please?

Disk is probably going bad. The system is seeing the disk problem as an eject. Backup the data on that disk.
Allan

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Hello Roma2001,
Thank you for the details of the issue you are experiencing with your FireWire hub.
I recommend following the steps in the section titled "Top troubleshooting tips" in the following article:
USB and FireWire Quick Assist
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1151
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Sheila M.

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Hi I'm having this issue since I upgraded to Mavericks where almost every time I put my computers to sleep I get the "Disk not ejected propoerly" message and every disk but the system one is not mounted and cannot be found by Disk Utility.
I have a Mac Mini late 2009 and a Macbook Pro 15 mid 2009 and I'm having this issue in both machines. Never had any issues before in any of my machines, not in Leopard, Snow Leopard or Lion.
On my Mini I have two external USB drives and on my MBP I have a SSD, where the system is installed, and a HD (I replaced my optical drive with a bay to install the extra disk).
I researched the issue and found a couple of threads where people sugested to buy a 3rd party app that would unmount the disks at sleep and remount them at wake, but I think this shouldn't be a issue, since it never happened with any version of OSX I had used before.
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In the past week or so I am getting the standard Disk Not Ejected properly message everytime I wake my iMac up. However, all of my disks are still mounted properly and accessible so I have no idea what it thinks has been ejected.
I have been running on Mountain Lion with no issues since it became available and this problem has only just started.
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I am one of those who had experienced this kind of problem. My former Time Machine disk used to automatically eject itself when my iMac sleeps, hence upon waking up my iMac. i always get the error message that the disk was not properly ejected.
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