Eject drive warning on wake up

Whenever I wake up my iMac when I've been away from it for a while there's a warning message saying I should eject external drives before powerin them off.  This is about a Toshiba 1Tb usb drive that's got my Time Machine back-ups on it.  I even get it when I do eject the drive because I know I'd going to be way from the machine for long enough for it to go into stand by or if I eject before putting it in sleep mode for a while so  Does any one know how I can get this to stop.  I'ts not very good if the machine doesn't dismount drives properly when going to sleep.

I second that opinion, older Pros (like mine) do it too!

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